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Icon: Create: How to: Microsoft: Windows: XP: How to create an icon (for your (own) programs)?

Mar 31st, 2005 08:09
Knud van Eeden,

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Icon: Create: How to: Microsoft: Windows: XP: How to create an icon 
(for your (own) programs)?

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Using e.g. the Microsoft Paint program is a convenient
method to create icons yourself (so you could make one
for all your executables created e.g. in Microsoft .NET,
Delphi, ...).

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Steps: Overview:

 1. -Open the Microsoft Paint program

     1. -Click button Windows 'Start'

     2. -Select from list 'Run'

     3. -Type the filename

          mspaint.exe

     4. -Click button 'OK'

 2. -Create an icon file

     1. -Select from menu option 'Image'

     2. -Select from list 'Attributes'

     3. -Fill in for

         1. Width:

             32

         2. Height:

             32

     4. -Click button 'OK'

 3. -To enlarge the picture while working on it,
     you could e.g. 'stretch' the picture

     1. -Select from menu option 'Image'

     2. -Select from list 'Stretch/Skew'

     3. -Fill in for vertical and horizontal
         a value between 0% and 500%

     4. -Click button 'OK'

 4. -Draw your icon

     1. Use the options in the palette in the
        left pane

 5. -Save your icon

     1. Choose a filename with the extension

         .ico

        (and save the filename between "",
         to be sure that the filename is saved
         unchanged)

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        e.g.

         "c:\temp\mytest.ico"

 6. -Possibly add this icon to any of your programs

     1. E.g. in Microsoft Explorer or any icon
        on your desktop

        1. Change the current icon of that file

           1. -Right click on icon

           2. -Select from list 'Properties'

           3. -Click button 'Change icon...'

               1. -Click button 'Browse'

                   1. -Browse to the location of your
                       icon file

                        e.g.

                         "c:\temp\mytest.ico"

                   2. -Click on the icon to select it

                   3. -Click button 'OK'

           4. -Click button 'OK'

        2. Your program will now have this icon assigned
           to it

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Internet: see also:

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[Internet: source: 
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/5xptricks.mspx]

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Operating system: Microsoft: Windows: XP: Link: Overview: Can you give 
an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/34878/fid/868

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