>I have an application where I want to use varying icons for the same form.
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>Let's say when the user selects a certain menu option, the system determines the time of day and swaps .ICO files accordingly before opening the requested form. The form already has the 'Icon' Property set to a name that does not change. So I must rename the old .ICO file out and put a new file (under the same original name) in its place.
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>The problem is that this does NOT work. I experience NO change in icons.
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>When I build the .EXE I made sure to exclude the .ICO file from the build thinking that whenever the form ran it would get whatever matching ICO file was available.
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>Why isn't this working?
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Just a SWAG, but VFP is likely caching the icon when it's read, and not re-reading or re-rendering the icon when you switch files. Try:

CLEAR RESOURCES <i>name of the .ICO file</i>

whenever you make the change, before refreshing/reloading the form.

>Is the icon somehow built into the .EXE associated with each form so that I can't change it at run time?
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>HELP!