Re: Application icon
The shell uses the first icon it comes to in the file. My guess is your
resource shuffle moved it around. You can open the .EXE as a resource and
see which icon is first. On most MFC applications the icon is resource
number 128 if I remember correctly. Just make sure the resource number is
lower than any of the other icons.
Tom
"Gerry Murphy" <gerrymurphy429@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello, all,
Have a strange problem. I recently used the tool ResOrg to renumber the
resource IDs in a project where there were hundreds of duplicates. This
fixed a list of bugs, which is why I did it. The other programmers found
three problems after this. One was trivial to fix, a second was actually
a problem in the code that renumbering the resouce IDs uncovered and was
also easily fixed.
The third one is weird though. Renumbering the resources messed up the
application icon. I verified this by recompiling with the old resource.h
file and the icon is correct.
In the renumbered file I even changed IDR_MAINFRAME back to the value it
had before the renumbering but this didn't fix the problem.
Has anybody seen behavior like this? Is there some strange voodoo
involving the application icon?
The code is loading the icon in CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow() as shown:
wndcls.hIcon = AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDR_MAINFRAME);
which seems unremarkable.
As I say, changing only resource.h creates this problem.
TIA for any help.
Regards,
Gerry Murphy
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