Blooming Icons... [RESOLVED]

[coox]

Ok, I give up - anyone got a nice juicy link where I can read about exactly what kind of icons I need in my res file?

I've got one now with 11 icons in of various sizes and what-not, but I just can't figure out which ones are essential - I'd like to keep the size of the exe down.

Cheers!

[Hack]

Is there a question here?

[coox]

Yup:

anyone got a nice juicy link where I can read about exactly what kind of icons I need in my res file?

[Hack]

How are we to know what kind of icons you need?

Are you asking about icon sizes or styles or what?

[coox]

Yeah... pixels, number of colours 'n' all that stuff.

[Al42]

Used for what? Different icons are used for different things. You don't actually need any icons in your res file. You don't actually even need a res file.

[coox]

Ok, I've obviously been far too vague with this post. Here's the thing...

I've got an app and I've created a res file so that the app can show a decent XP style icon when, say, a shortcut is made to it, and when it appears in the taskbar and switcher. However, the icon file I was given and then used to create the res file contains eleven different versions of the same picture - 256x256, 128x128 etc.

What I'm looking for is some sort of explanation as to which icons are used for which things - for example, I know that one of the much smaller ones is used for the taskbar, and one of the larger ones (but not the largest) for the shortcut.

I figured this much out by editing the icon file and painting, very roughly, large numbers over each icon so I'd be able to tell which one was being used.

Does that make things any clearer?

[BefunMunkToloGen]

VB can't use icons over 8 bit (256 colours) IIRC. I usually use a resource hacker to replace them once I've finished and compiled...

[iPrank]

This ?

[coox]

iPrank - that's EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Many thanks!