Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: icons Message-ID: <1990Sep21.144846.12723@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 21 Sep 90 14:48:46 GMT References: <59439@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <763@tuura.UUCP> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 36 In article <763@tuura.UUCP> risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes: >wcwang@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Bill Wang) writes: > > >>I have successfully changed the icons in program manager to different >>ones than the MS shipped ones. But somehow, I couldn't quite >>figure out why they turned into the default icons when I used >>- to switch to other processes. There got to be a problem >>somewhere. Thanks in advance for any enlights on the matter. > >Hi! > >Windows' Program Manager probably expects full path names for the icon >files you've written on the File..Properties..etc line. What possibly >happens is that when ProgMan regains control, the program being used >meanwhile had changed directory and the icon files were no longer present >in the 'relative' path. In that case, the 'first available' icon is >displayed, which is just the PROGMAN.EXE's own DOS screen icon. > >Terveisin: Risto Lankinen > The icon shown for an application in a group under the program manager is under control of the program manager. Selecting an icon under the properties section tells progman to display that icon. Once the application is invoked, then minimized, progman no longer has any control over it. For an application to show an icon (other than the default DOS icon) when minimized, it must be a windows application that has an icon built into its resource. Non-windows applications cannot do this, and there is no way (to my knowledge) to tell windows to use a different icon in this case. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254