Ok, i'm making a setup program creater and I want to change the icon of a compiled exe. Anyone knows how to do this? (if it's even possible) :D
Thanks in advance,
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Ok, i'm making a setup program creater and I want to change the icon of a compiled exe. Anyone knows how to do this? (if it's even possible) :D
Thanks in advance,
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Why would a setup program need to change the icon of a compiled exe? :confused:
I made an engine (a separate exe) which is the actual setup program, i executes a text file. I want the user to be able to change this program's icon.
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A text file isn't a program. You could change the icon associated with a text file, if that's what you mean.
Nono! I have the engine (an exe), and it contains a text file.
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And you want the user to be able to change the icon of your "engine?" Or the text file? How does your engine contain a text file?
It's a setup program, right? So does it create a text file? and you want to change the icon FOR that text file?
I'm so confused. :confused:
lol, ok, I'll try to explain ;)
I have made a setup creater and a setup engine. The creater is used to generate a script file which the setup engine can run.
So you can use the engine to execute a script file, the script file contains all needed info about how the setup should go.
When the script file is made, i make a copy of the engine exe and put the text file into the exe. What I want to do is to change the icon of this exe.
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i know one really hard, and stupid way :)
extract the icon, and open it in a hex editor, copy all text into clipboard.
open the exe in a hex editor, search for the copied text...
open a new icon and copy all text from it...
paste it into the exe instead of the previous text...
that's the only way i know of... :p
That was what I was thinking :)
I hoped someone would have some code to do it ;)
Thanks though.
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that could be done using code.....but i think there is a better way...
How?! Tell me!? please! :)
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well... i dont know a better way, but i hope there is :p
lol, i hope someone tells me that way ;)
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maybe you could do like this:
VB Code:
Yea, but then the source icon must be the same size as the current one. ack! this is hard :(
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yep...hehe...
I've done some searching and I found a program called recource hacker, with it I can change the icon of a program, now all I need to know is how to do it with code :)
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