RE: Registry File

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bensler at mail.com wrote:
> Actually, I am specify using a registry file.
> 
> The problem was that I was specifyng the icon for *.ex, but not for 
> *.exw. Windows was assiging the icon for *.exw files, and giving it the 
> wrong one.
> 
> You turned my brain on when you said there could be different size icons 
> 
> in the file. Thank you.
> I had assumed that it was the same icon, but used differently with 16bit 
> 
> and 32bit programs.
> 
> Chris
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > I'm assuming that by "I try using the icon in exw.exe" you meant that 
> > you went to the File 
> > Associations dialog and selected the option to change the icon and then 
> > selected exw.exe as the 
> > source of the icon. Well I did the same on my Windows 2000 system and I 
> > didn't see any differences 
> > in the icon displayed using any of the Windows Explorer views (list, 
> > small icons, and large icons)
> > 
> > However, want you might be seeing is that some programs have embedded 
> > both a 16x16 icon and a 32x32 
> > icon and Windows picks the best one for the current view. If the program 
> > 
> > doesn't have both, it tries 
> > to convert whatever is does have to the different size if it needs to.
> > 
> > 25/02/2002 1:50:12 PM, bensler at mail.com wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >Can anyone explain this?
> > >
> > >Strangely, when I try using the icon in exw.exe for both *.ex and *.exw, 
> > >
> > >
> > >the icons for both files are the same. But if I use it for only *.exw 
> > >files, I get a different icon that looks more suitable.
> > >
> > >I don't think it's just my system, because I have tried on different 
> > >computers, and it's the same effect.
> > >
> > >Because of this, I need to use euphoria.ico for *.ex files.
> > >
> > >Chris
> > >
> > >
> > ---------
> > Cheers,
> > Derek Parnell 
> > 
> > 

And people wonder why I just stick with WIN98...

That's one reason I don't fell like messing with all that up there.


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