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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: icons
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.153207.2950@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:32:07 GMT
References: <59439@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <763@tuura.UUCP> <1990Sep21.144846.12723@sj.ate.slb.com> <3432@stl.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <3432@stl.stc.co.uk> dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
>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 .... :-)
>

Unfortunately this does not work except to change the icon presented in the
program manager ONLY. Once the application is launched, then minimized, only
a true windows application will show anything other than the default DOS icon.

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