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.ico file not working as Icon...

Postby Sgt. Sparky » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:51 pm

I have an Icon(.ico file) that I made with version 3.2 of my painter program(I have not posted this version yet.),
but I keep having one problem: every Icon I make with it works with every program I have that can view Ico files exept GE.
Meaning: every time I add my painter Icon I made with my program as an Icon for my program and I try to export it the exported version does not have my icon, instead it simply has the GE icon... :(
any Ideas? :(
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby makslane » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:08 pm

Can you post the icon?
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby J Maker » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:16 pm

samething happens to me but i use just plain paint :| it's SOO frusterating and i export it as a .ico
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby Sgt. Sparky » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:06 am

makslane wrote:Can you post the icon?

okay,
Here it is(it is in a .zip because extention .ico is now allowed. :( ) :
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(660 Bytes) Downloaded 109 times
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby makslane » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:38 am

I think there are something wrong in this icon file.
Some techinical details now...

The icon file starts with a header thats contains three values:

Reserved: Reserved (must be 0)
Type: Resource Type (1 for icons)
Count: How many images?

In your file, the Reserved and Type is wrong.
Loading the file in a HEX editor, I can see there is not a real .ico file, but a BMP file!

So, Game Editor can't export the icon.

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http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997538.aspx
http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/WIN-OS2/0058.PAS.html
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby Sgt. Sparky » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:42 am

allright, thankyou. :D
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Re: .ico file not working as Icon...

Postby Fuzzy » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:32 pm

some programs would accept bmps as ico. At one point windows would look at the header of a file and decide what it was. it would ignore the extension in some cases, so there was a security issue as people would hide viruses in things like screen savers.
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