Whats the status of being able to choose an icon for the application that is then compiled into it? I'd like people to see something other than the default binary mime icon if possible. Did I just miss a setting somewhere?

Is there a workaround or a way to do this if it's not in the code yet?

Thanks,
Tony

You are right. Can't remember where I found the number. FPC has no limits. :)

BTW, what about fpc 1.1? Does it make sense to report bugs?

Mattias

Currect it doesn't. The icon used on the screen is determined by the Window Manager used. It doesn't pull this from the application as Windows does. You must manually set this using the Windows Manager.

Also keep in mind, that there is a limit of about one megabyte for a single resource. (fpc allows 'only' 1024 elements in array of const).

Mattias

Good info, thanks!

However- this doesn't change the filesystem icon, just the icon in the form window corner. I was hoping for something that would make the executable jump out and say "click me!" if you know what I mean.. Perhaps Linux doesn't support that the same way as Windows?

Whats the status of being able to choose an icon for the application that is then compiled into it? I'd like people to see something other than the default binary mime icon if possible. Did I just miss a setting somewhere? Is there a workaround or a way to do this if it's not in the code yet?

Create an icon called mainicon.xpm, use lazres to create a .lrs file and include it. (See main.pp initialization section and images/README as example).

Mattias

>BTW, what about fpc 1.1? Does it make sense to report bugs? If they are specific, yes. I.e. if you can give an example which shows a problem. If you report them via the bug report system they don't get lost :)

I hope they get lost ;)
Perhaps I will try to find an easier example than the lcl to show the error ...

Mattias

No. That is how the Lazarus Splash screen is done as well as any other graphics in the IDE. Be sure to use XPM files so that you are sure not to have any problems.

It has one thing which is limited to 1024 :) : the number of used units is limited to 1024, however this can be changed by changing a simple constant.

BTW, what about fpc 1.1? Does it make sense to report bugs?

If they are specific, yes. I.e. if you can give an example which shows a problem. If you report them via the bug report system they don't get lost :)

Hmmm, I can't remember that there is such a limit?

Wow, I didn't realize I could load bitmaps from a resource!

Now I won't have to distribute the graphics as separate files... I replaced the splash screen already with a loadfromlazarusresource statement.

Am I playing with dangerous code doing this?

-Tony

Mattias Gaertner wrote

Create an icon called mainicon.xpm, use lazres to create a .lrs file and include it. (See main.pp initialization section and images/README as example).