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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: icons
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Date: 26 Sep 90 18:14:01 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.144846.12723@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) writes:
#
#..... ...  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.

Wrong, fortunately.  For example, on my system Kermit now shows a very
non-standard icon when minimised.

Get hold of icon editor icon12, posted about a month ago (this group or
comp.binaries.ibm.pc, I forget) and now no doubt on Simtel etc..
Make your icon, select your application, select Properties, in that select
change icon.  Then put the full path name of your icon file in as the icon
file name.   That's all there is to it - even I could do it!
Now if I could just learn how to draw a *proper* frog .... :-)

Regards,          "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity"
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