Application icon confusion

[Dan English]

I've got a little confusion regarding the application icons in my program.

In pure PowerBasic, I can just ensure that whatever icon I want as the main application icon is alphabetically first. So perhaps I could call it "AAAAA_App_Icon_Big.cio". This works nicely. However, in FireFly, adding an alphabetically-first ICO to the Image Library (F7) doesn't work.

So researching the PB forums, the following code additions seems to be effective.

In FF_AppStart:

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#RESOURCE Icon APP_ICON_BIG, "..\images\App_Icon_Big.ico"
#RESOURCE Icon APP_ICON_SMALL, "..\images\App_Icon_Small.ico"


Then in FF_WinMain:

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SendMessage hInstance, %WM_SETICON, %ICON_BIG, LoadIcon(GetModuleHandle(ByVal 0), "APP_ICON_BIG")   ' API sets Alt-Tab window (Task-switch view)
SendMessage hInstance, %WM_SETICON, %ICON_SMALL, LoadIcon (GetModuleHandle(ByVal 0), "APP_ICON_BIG")   ' API set Caption & Taskbar


Now this seems a little messy. Is this how it's done in FireFly, or is there a much simpler way that I'm missing?

[David Kenny]

You can explicitly set that in the Project Properties.

[Dan English]

Thanks, I'll revisit that Project Properties option. It didn't work when I first tried it, which led me down this code path.

Perhaps my icon is formatted incorrectly. Does an icon for this have to be an exact size and format? I haven't found any documentation that specifically describes this.

[Dan English]

Unfortunately no luck with the Project Properties area.

I found this in my travels:  http://iconhandbook.co.uk/reference/chart/windows/

It's a nice reference for icon formats and sizes. I created an icon that matches that, and still didn't work within the Project Properties.

[David Kenny]

If you haven't already, try a 32x32 icon.

[Dan English]

Well it appears to inadvertently have been my fault. In my project was some code I'd pulled from the PowerBasic forums. The code contained a number of #RESOURCE statements that included icons.

I've since removed all that, and now the Project Properties icon selection works. Not sure how things conflicted, but all is well now.

Thanks!