desktop icons

[Guest]

I want to create my own unique icon graphic. I am using a custom made
inventory program. The desktop shortcut icon is assigned by me by choosing
an icon from "Windows/system32/shell32.dll". I do this by clicking on the
"change icon" tab in the properties dialog box. It seems like I should be
able to create a picture in Paint and use it somehow for my icon graphic.
Any ideas on how to do this?

 

[Elmo]

I want to create my own unique icon graphic. I am using a custom made
inventory program. The desktop shortcut icon is assigned by me by choosing
an icon from "Windows/system32/shell32.dll". I do this by clicking on the
"change icon" tab in the properties dialog box. It seems like I should be
able to create a picture in Paint and use it somehow for my icon graphic.
Any ideas on how to do this?

Give your artwork an .ico extension and point to that file. It needs to
have specific dimensions though, 64x64, perhaps.

 

[C J.]

Agrees with Elmo... but IIRC icons should be 32 x 32 pixels...

 

[Morrighan]

Can you give more specific information here? How do I give my icon the .ico
extension? Because it won't let me save it with that extension from paint.

 

[witan]

Can you give more specific information here? How do I give my icon the .ico
extension? Because it won't let me save it with that extension from paint.

Give your artwork an .ico extension and point to that file.  It needs to
have specific dimensions though, 64x64, perhaps.

Save it in Paint as a .bmp file. Rename it later as .ico
I have done this a number of times, and it has always worked.

 

[Bob]

Open an image file with Paint.

Resize it to 32 x 32.

Save as a 256 color BMP file.

Right click and rename it <filename>.ico