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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Non-Windows Apps Icons (Why do they change?)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.005119.22489@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 00:51:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.165438.12792@cbnewsk.att.com> <20339553@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <20339553@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <1991Mar12.165438.12792@cbnewsk.att.com> konopka@cbnewsk.att.com (raymond.konopka..jr) writes:
>>I have a number of Non-Windows apps installed in the Non-Win Apps
>>group under program manager in Win 3.0.  I have used the 
>>ICONDRAW.EXE program to create Icons for these programs.  
>>The problem that I have been experiencing is this:  The icons come up
>>fine in the Non-Win Apps Window, but if I run one of these applications
>>in a window (I am in 386 enhanced), and then reduce the window to
>>an icon, the icon changes to the DOS icon provided by Windows 3.0.
>>
>>Is there any way to force windows to use the icon that I created?
>
>This is an incredibly frequently asked question.
>
>The answer is no.  When you tell Program Manager to use a special icon
>file for a program item in one of its groups, that is ALL you have done:
>told Program Manager.  When an application is iconized onto the Desktop,
>Progman is out of the loop.  The Windows iconizer only knows to look in
>the .EXE file for an icon.  All DosApps get the DOS icon.


Actually you must set the icon by setting the class icon when you register the
class in a windows application. You can use the standard IDI_APPLICATION icon,
but this is just a little blank box with a border. You would have to load the
icon from one built into the resource to get a different one.

Of course this only applies to windows apps.

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