BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Designing icons.          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Non-Technical View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Martin Harvey (Demon Acco Guest Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:14 pm    Post subject: Designing icons. Hey folks, easy questions: Icons. Come in several flavours: small (16), large (32), and 2 or 16 colours. In list views and tree views, you can specify small images & large images. No problem there. Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? Question 2: More than 16 colours (eg 256 or tru colour). a) Works for loading into image lists, for list and tree views? b) What about application icons? Image editor only supports 16 colour icons :-( MH. Back to top Craig Stuntz [TeamB] Guest Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. Martin Harvey (Demon Account) wrote: Quote: Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? All the icons go into one file. Quote: Question 2: More than 16 colours (eg 256 or tru colour). a) Works for loading into image lists, for list and tree views? Yes. Quote: b) What about application icons? Image editor only supports 16 colour icons Use a different editor. -Craig -- Craig Stuntz [TeamB] . Vertex Systems Corp. . Columbus, OH Delphi/InterBase Weblog : http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz Back to top Carl Guest Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:54 am    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. Quote: Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? You should enter 2 or more icons (16x16, 32x32, etc.) in a single .res file. Windows will load the appropriate icon. Quote: Question 2: More than 16 colours (eg 256 or tru colour). a) Works for loading into image lists, for list and tree views? b) What about application icons? Image editor only supports 16 colour icons You should use another editor, like www.microangelo.us that support all formats, also the Windows XP icons. Back to top Jako Grobler Guest Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:12 am    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. "Martin Harvey (Demon Account)" <martin (AT) _nospam_pergolesi (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote in news:vuuqf0t3toumo7i3vj03ls3fhdjofc494g (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: Quote: Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? Just add them to the .res file of your application, using a resouce editor. A good freeware one is PE Resource Explorer: http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d7resourceexplorer.htm Note: When adding icons using Paste, first select a Pixel Format of 32bit, paste, and then reduce to 8 bit or whatever your icon was designed for. If you do not do this your palette will be screwed up. Also, when changing the width and height do a tab instead of pressing Enter. To add an icon select the existing one Delphi created, and then right click on the editor side to get an Add Image menu. Here is a very powerful freeware proggie for creating icons, etc: http://www.axiomx.com/PixelToolbox/ Hope this helps, Jako Back to top Martin Harvey (work) Guest Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. Craig, Carl, Jako, Many thanks for the info, I'll try out the recommended editors :-) MH. Back to top Nikos Bakolas Guest Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. Hi, About Question 1, this http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.aspmsdn article is about creating a .ico for Windows XP with multiple bit-depths and sizes. It mentions Gif movie gear as the preferred (only?) tool which can create an all-in-one ico file. Nikos. Back to top Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] Guest Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:33 am    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. Martin Harvey (Demon Account) wrote: Quote: Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? Use a multiple format one. -- Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] Back to top Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] Guest Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. At 20:07:40, 21.07.2004, Nikos Bakolas wrote: Quote: Hi, About Question 1, this http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/h tml/winxpicons.aspmsdn article is about creating a .ico for Windows XP with multiple bit-depths and sizes. It mentions Gif movie gear as the preferred (only?) tool which can create an all-in-one ico file. Nikos. Most good icon editors can do it. Some of them are even free. -- Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977) Back to top abc Guest Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 5:12 am    Post subject: Re: Designing icons. "Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]" <velthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Martin Harvey (Demon Account) wrote: Question 1: Application icons. The IDE lets you load one for the app - and just the one. What do you do about separate 16x16 and 32x32 ?? Use a multiple format one. You can use SlavaSoft Paint Express( www.slavasoft.com ) or Axialis Icon Workshop( www.axialis.com ). 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