>I've been getting some really screwy behaviour from my project Icon.
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>Rather than try to explain and hash out all of that, I was wondering if someone could give me a refresher on creating a project Icon.
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>I have the old Image Edit program, Should I be using that?
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>I need an icon that will appear on my desktop and in the add/remove programs of the control panel.
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>I am using Installshield express (full version) & VFP 7
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>I know I will be needing one file with 2 images inside it.
>How do I go about creating that and what are the sizes?
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>I also downloaded the Iconmaker from here UT and tried that. IT created a 32x32 icon fine, but the image edit program determeined that the small icon was of an unknown format and wouldnt display it. It didnt display in my add/remove programs either.
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>Thanks, steve

Steve,

You can use ImagEdit to shrink the icon. However, as far as I know, I believe it only works with 16 color icons.

Since I wrote IconMaker I would guess that the 32x32 icon was 16 colors. In testing this seems to be the case. Now there is a problem, which I believe I solved with the 16x16 icon 16 color icons. The call that creates the file on the disk is simply one to the SAVEPICTURE() function. I found that there's a bug in the Windows API routines (at least through W2K). The VFP function maps to a function called OleSavePictureFile() in OLEAUT32.DLL. What was happening was that there were 128 unnecessary bytes being inserted. There's a routine (FixSmallIcon, I think) that removes these to produce a valid file. I believe that I coded defensively here to remove these only in the event they were present. However, the logic involved may have been insufficient if the icon had more than 16 colors.