[comp.windows.ms] Changing Icons for apps in Windows 3.0

cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) (04/09/91)

In <1991Apr8.103523@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM> tomj@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Jacobs) writes:

>Perhaps I'm missing something simple, but the docs that come
>with basic 3.0 don't specifically say how I could create new
>icons of my own design (using the 3.0 Paint pgm) and set those
>images as the iconic image for some of my DOS apps that I want
>to access through windows.  What hooks are provided for this type
>of customization... I'm tired of the ugly DOS default icon.

You can't do either of these things, i.e. create your own icons or change
the appearance of iconized DOS programs, using the basic programs supplied
with Windows.  There are many PD and commercial programs for creating icons.
Somebody on the newsgroup said that was another PD or commercial program
that would allow you to change the DOS icon but I don't remember who it
was or how you do it.

If you have some icons already defined, you can associated icons with
DOS applications using the Properties menu in program manager, but this
only affects their apperance in program manager, not when they are iconized.

Chuck

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