What’s the story with the Windows icon dimensions?

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Ramon
Apr 2, 2009
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Hello,

I have been trying to deploy an icon in the system tray area (lower right corner). Due to their tiny size, those little buggers are tricky, and it seems that successful designers try to make them as square as possible.

Ages ago, when the Mac came out, I recall that a single icon file (or resource) contained a bunch of icon images, one for each size. How does that work for Windows? Should I add a set of them as separate files to the MS Visual Studio IDE?

I have the default icon used by MFC applications (it has the letters "M", "F" and "C" on some cubes). According to Visual Studio, its dimensions are 32×32. However, if I open the file with IrfanView, it says that the dimensions are 48×48. I have been trying to replace that default with a custom designed icon.

Meanwhile, my icon can hardly be seen without a magnifying glass.

Any pointers are much appreciated.

TIA,

-Ramon

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Joe
Apr 2, 2009
Ramon F Herrera wrote:

Meanwhile, my icon can hardly be seen without a magnifying glass.
Any pointers are much appreciated.

Can you just go to properties and set the size of Icon (and just about anything n the desktop) to your liking?

The reason I only quote a small part cuz most of them is so negative and blaming without finding out why.
CA
Chris Amor
Apr 3, 2009
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:32:33 -0700 (PDT), Ramon F Herrera wrote:

Ages ago, when the Mac came out, I recall that a single icon file (or resource) contained a bunch of icon images, one for each size. How does that work for Windows? Should I add a set of them as separate files to the MS Visual Studio IDE?

A windows ico file can contain a number of icons in sizes and colour depths for different uses.

I have the default icon used by MFC applications (it has the letters "M", "F" and "C" on some cubes). According to Visual Studio, its dimensions are 32×32. However, if I open the file with IrfanView, it says that the dimensions are 48×48. I have been trying to replace that default with a custom designed icon.

In visual studio, use "Image>Current Icon Image Types" and "Image>New Image Type…" to add or edit the icons.

Chris

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