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Re: ICON Solutions!

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Nov 08, 1999
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Brilliant Idea !!! Short answer to your question is.
There has to be an ICON to edit/overwrite.

Ex.exe and exw.exe do not have an ICON in them.  They
Icon you see is the default ICON for plain Jane Executable
programs.

        Lucius L. Hilley III
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Foster <jeremy at CANADIANLEAF.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 1:55 PM
Subject: ICON Solutions!


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> Poster:       Jeremy Foster <jeremy at CANADIANLEAF.COM>
> Subject:      ICON Solutions!
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> Hi all,
>
> I am still new at Euphoria so just stop reading if this doesn't make sense
> but, would it not be possible for someone with some C knowledge to build a
> "Icon Hacker" of sorts for Euphoria programs... So that after you bind
your
> program..then you start-up the "Icon Hacker" and select the exe file to
> hack and the icon to add...and it does it...So that you can have the same
> icon on the exe that shows up in the left top corner of your app.
>
> The reason I ask is that I have worked with "Macromedia Director" and
> programmed several games and other things with it. In Director you do all
> your code and such and then create a "Projector" file..this file is a
> compiled exe file..with everything contained inside it (bmps, code, gifs,
> etc..) and the exe file in the end has the icon that Macromedia has
> specified (it looks like a projector). But you can then get 3rd party
> programs that will open the projector's icon and then let you change that
icon.
>
> So in theory it sounds like someone should be able to do something similar
> for Euphoria exe files.
>
> Let me know what you think...(but don't flame me, thanks  
>
>
> -Jeremy
>