kinsellaj@ul.ie (09/07/90)
Apologising in advance for the trivial nature of the question: "Is there any way of preventing an icon for a non-Windows (i.e. DOS) application from reverting to the generic DOS icon when one minimises the application?" (I don't have the Windows 3 handbook & neither does anyone I know!) John A. Kinsella Mathematics Dept. University of Limerick Limerick IRELAND (No fancy disclaimers neccessary, I'm always right!)
jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) (09/07/90)
In article <6669@ul.ie> kinsellaj@ul.ie writes: >Apologising in advance for the trivial nature of the question: "Is there any way >of preventing an icon for a non-Windows (i.e. DOS) application from reverting to >the generic DOS icon when one minimises the application?" (I don't have the >Windows 3 handbook & neither does anyone I know!) The answer is, unfortunately, no. The icon which appears upon minimizing must be linked into the .EXE file. Since non-Windows apps don't have these linked in, you're out of luck there. (And after all that time I spent making great icons to appear in the Program Manager...) -- Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer. UUCP: ames!vsi1!headland!jls ARPA: jls%headland.UUCP@ames.nasa.arc.gov
akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (09/30/90)
In article <4707@hsv3.UUCP> jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman) writes: >In article <6669@ul.ie> kinsellaj@ul.ie writes: >>"Is there any way >>of preventing an icon for a non-Windows (i.e. DOS) application from reverting to >>the generic DOS icon when one minimises the application?" (I don't have the >>Windows 3 handbook & neither does anyone I know!) >The answer is, unfortunately, no. The icon which appears upon minimizing >must be linked into the .EXE file. Since non-Windows apps don't have these >linked in, you're out of luck there. (And after all that time I spent >making great icons to appear in the Program Manager...) What would happen if you used the resource compiler to link in an icon to a dos executable? kartik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Department of Computer Science akm@oregon.BITNET University of Oregon
jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) (10/01/90)
In article <1990Sep29.184653.4693@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: >What would happen if you used the resource compiler to link in an icon >to a dos executable? Well, this *might* let you access the icon from the Properties... menu of the Program Manager (I haven't tried) but it still wouldn't give you that icon when you minimize the program. Each windows program needs to designate a "class icon" for its window to let the system know what it should look like when you minimize it. (That's not quite true, as the program can draw its icon itself, as clock does, but it's approximately true.) Now, a non-Windows app is not going to know about the resource you linked in, so it's definitely not going to tell Windows that it's the class icon. (Nice thought, though...) -- Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer. UUCP: ames!vsi1!headland!jls ARPA: jls%headland.UUCP@ames.nasa.arc.gov