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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: icons for non-Windows 3.0 applications
Message-ID: <4707@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:34:41 GMT
References: <6669@ul.ie>
Reply-To: jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <6669@ul.ie> kinsellaj@ul.ie writes:
>Apologising in advance for the trivial nature of the question: "Is there any way
>of preventing an icon for a non-Windows (i.e. DOS) application from reverting to
>the generic DOS icon when one minimises the application?" (I don't have the 
>Windows 3 handbook & neither does anyone I know!)

The answer is, unfortunately, no.  The icon which appears upon minimizing
must be linked into the .EXE file.  Since non-Windows apps don't have these
linked in, you're out of luck there.  (And after all that time I spent
making great icons to appear in the Program Manager...)
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
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