How do I create an Icon for my application.

[Avatarp]

I have created a picture in paint and saved it as a bitmap. Now how do I make my application executable have this picture as its icon?

[techgnome]

Set it as the icon of a form in your app, then open the Project properties. In there somewhere you can set the "Use Icon from this object for Application" (it has a drop down with the list of all your forms).
BTW: Bitmaps do not make good icons.... might want to do a search for an icon editor... IconForge is one. You can usualy import a bitmap, then export it as an ICO file.

[crptcblade]

You'll need to convert it to a .ico file. There are many shareware apps that can do this.

Also try Microangelo

[Mc Brain]

The easiest way??

Try BMPTOICO 4.0

[andreys]

You should have this picture as an icon .ico. Select this icon for Icon property of your main form (frmMain) or whatever you have.
Then go to menu > Project > Project XXX.. Properties. Click on Make tab and under Application > Icon select your form name (frmMain).

[James Stanich]

Originally posted by Avatarp
I have created a picture in paint and saved it as a bitmap. Now how do I make my application executable have this picture as its icon?

Do you mean as it's desktop shortcut icon? The Main Form Icon will dictate ehich icon is use for your shortcut...

[Avatarp]

I created my icon with a trial version of IconForge. This may be better than saving a paint object as "name.ico" but it will cost money to get the full version of IconForge. But for my purposes paint will probably be good enough.

Thanks for your replys

[Mc Brain]

Paint does not create icons!! You cannot rename a BMP to ICO and pretend that VB treat it as an icon. That would not work. There are some programs which are shareware, or even freeware. You should try with one of them.

[ice_531]

search www.google.com lol always helps me find stuff

[James Stanich]

www.davecentral.com

This is where I get my simple, but useful, utilities...

Damn they shut down the site (been awhile)...

Try www.download.com

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Avatarp
I created my icon with a trial version of IconForge. This may be better than saving a paint object as "name.ico" but it will cost money to get the full version of IconForge. But for my purposes paint will probably be good enough.

Thanks for your replys

I think iconforge never expires....
At least it was like this when I used to use it. I kinda like it

[run_GMoney]

Is there any way to smooth out a .ico image? I have a circle and it just looks kind of choppy. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Avatarp]

Paint is great for many things but If you want make a high quality .ico you should use an icon maker program such as IconForge. You can find these programs on the Internet. Do a Goggle search for Icon Programs.

[run_GMoney]

I'm not sure if that last post was for me or not but if it was, I didn't use Paint to create my icon, I used IconForge. Since it's only a 32 X 32 image I just kind of hoped that the image would be a bit cleaner. Either way, is it possible to decrease the pixel size (increase amount of pixels) in IconForge to create a better resolution?

[Avatarp]

When creating a new icon you can change the resolution or size of the icon from the pop menu that comes up when you click new. You can also change the number of colors used for the icon. Depending on your computer you could us up to over 16 Million colors. So create a new icon and then paste in the image in the main window. Let me know how that works.

[mackey]

try this site http://ranfo.com/ go to the software downloads and download icon editor its freeware and really good i use it

[Megatron]

I think the best icon drawer is Microangello 98. It can be found at www.impactsoft.com

Another way to create icons is to create a bitmap file, load it into an imagelist, call the extracticon method, and extract it to a picturebox, then use SavePicture to save it as an icon.