If I’m not mistaken the desktop is just a ListView, and you’ll have to send the LVM_SETITEMPOSITION message to the handle of the desktop. I googled a bit for some c# code and couldn’t find a example, but I did found the following article. Torry: …get/set the positions of desktop icons?. It’s delphi code, but … Read more
In [Files] section, you install your giotto.ico to the application folder (you may want to install the icon only when the desktopicon task is selected). In [Icons] section, you create the desktop icon using the installed giotto.ico (when the desktopicon task is selected). #define SourcePath “C:\Users\PycharmProjects\GIOTTOconverter\dist” #define MyAppName “GIOTTO” #define MyAppExeName “GIOTTO.exe” #define MyAppIcoName “giotto.ico” … Read more
I use simple Markup Extension for that: /// <summary> /// Simple extension for icon, to let you choose icon with specific size. /// Usage sample: /// Image Stretch=”None” Source=”{common:Icon /Controls;component/icons/custom.ico, 16}” /// Or: /// Image Source=”{common:Icon Source={Binding IconResource}, Size=16}” /// </summary> public class IconExtension : MarkupExtension { private string _source; public string Source { get … Read more
Turns out you can also do this with Gimp, as described here: Open the largest of the icon images in The GIMP. Right-click on the image and select File->Open as Layers… and select all the other icon images. This will create a single image with a layer containing each of the other icon images. Save … Read more
Typical views for this Windows 7 based PC Note: @bobbel reports the same sizes are used for Windows 10. Frame – 20×20 Task Bar – 40×40 in task bar itself, hover app shows 20×20 Windows+Tab – 20×20 Alt+Tab – 40×40 in lower right, shrunken 20×20 in upper left. Task Manager – 20×20
ImageMagick has a recipe for this in their documentation, see FavIcon Web Page Link Thumbnail Essentially you run the following: convert image.png -bordercolor white -border 0 \ \( -clone 0 -resize 16×16 \) \ \( -clone 0 -resize 32×32 \) \ \( -clone 0 -resize 48×48 \) \ \( -clone 0 -resize 64×64 \) \ … Read more
You can use a tool like akavel/rsrc in order to generate a .syso file with specified resources embedded in .rsrc section, aimed for consumption by Go linker when building Win32 excecutables. See as an example the lxn/walk application, which embeds other metadata in its executable. rsrc [-manifest FILE.exe.manifest] [-ico FILE.ico[,FILE2.ico…]] -o FILE.syso -ico=””: comma-separated list … Read more
Standard cursor image: setCursor(Cursor.getDefaultCursor()); User defined Image: Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); Image image = toolkit.getImage(“icons/handwriting.gif”); Cursor c = toolkit.createCustomCursor(image , new Point(mainPane.getX(), mainPane.getY()), “img”); mainPane.setCursor (c); You can download a zip containing sample source: HERE
Run it not through Visual Studio – then the icon should look just fine. I believe it is because when you debug, Visual Studio runs <yourapp>.vshost.exe and not your application. The .vshost.exe file doesn’t use your icon. Ultimately, what you have done is correct. Go to the Project properties under Application tab change the default … Read more