OpenEuphoria

Re: icon embedding

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jun 16, 1999
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"Molasses" wrote:

>Anyone know how to embed a Windows icon in an .exe file?

I'm assuming you mean a Euphoria .exe file.

The short answer is that you can't embed resources into Euphoria programs.
It *is* possible to create resources (like icons, cursors, dialog boxes, and
so on) with a resource editor, and ship the resource file along with your
application. You can then direct that the resources be loaded from that file
when your code runs. Obviously, this isn't "embedding" the icon into the
.exe.

The other route to take is to build the data structure from scratch from
within your program, instead of using a resource editor. You can then point
Windows to that chunk of memory. This is the approach that Win32Lib and
Llama take - it's a bit more work, but you end up with everything contained
within the executable. Again, not really "embedding", since you are
constructing the icon by hand, rather than sticking a pre-created resource
into your code somehow.

I haven't actually built any icons from scratch - it looks tedious, but
doable.

-- David Cuny