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I'm on the verge of releasing my first application. Just a case of doing some finishing touches now.
This is one problem I'm having. It's about that little icon that appears at the top left of every form in VB. It also appears on the start bar when forms are minimised. By default it's the standard VB form icon - you know the one - that attractive little 2 colour rectangle, slightly skewed to give the illusion of perspective! So, I want to stick my own icon there instead. I've designed an icon using Paint. I figured that it would be better to use a simple package since icons are fairly simple. I made a 32 x 32 pixel image, and saved it as a 16 colour picture with the file ending ".ico".
This is how I tried to use my icon: I went to the project properties menu, which is in the Project pull down menu. In there, I went to the Make tab, and in there, there's a reference to the icon. I could't make it do anything! Then I tried using the icon property of the main form in my project, but I was told that there was an invalid property.
I HAVE been able to use other windows icons (like the ones that come with Visual Studio) instead of the default form icon, but not my own. This suggests that there is a problem with my specific icon design. Do I need a specific icon designer package, or should I be able to make a compatible icon with paint/PSP/CorelDraw etc...?
If anyone can tell me how to substitute an icon of my own into my application, I would be most grateful. Thanks,
Steve.
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You need a specific icon designer. Icons are stored differently to bitmaps, so take a look at http://www.impactsoft.com for an icon editor. There's also one in Visual C++ (if you have it).
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OK, thanks for the help parksie! Most appreciated.
