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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: icons for non-Windows 3.0 applications
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Date: 29 Sep 90 18:46:53 GMT
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In article <4707@hsv3.UUCP> jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
>In article <6669@ul.ie> kinsellaj@ul.ie writes:
>>"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...)

What would happen if you used the resource compiler to link in an icon
to a dos executable?

kartik

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Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
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