Icons In Visual C++ 6
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Hey all,
This is probably quite a trivial question, but does anybody know how to compile an exe with an icon that has a greater colour bit depth than 8 bits, because it seems like MSVC++6.0 only supports 4 and 8 bit bitmaps.
Any help you guys could give me would be much appriciated, thanks.
EDIT : Oh yeah, and the same thing applies for toolbar button pictures, I need them to have a higher colour depth as well.
- James
[edited by - weasalmongler on November 30, 2003 4:26:10 PM]
Create them in an external editor then import them into your resource file.
Colin Jeanne | Invader''s Realm
Colin Jeanne | Invader''s Realm
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I have already created the bmp/jpg image files, I cant import them in though because they need to be .ico files, can these be generated by other programs? If so does anybody know any good ones?
Thanks.
- James
Thanks.
- James
I use irfanview, it can save it as .ico files and lots of others, you can download it at http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html
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Thanks! Thats done the job for the icon stuff!
One more thing though, if I want to go about importing an image for a toolbar button, how do I get it in and onto the button?
Thanks for more of your time.
- James
One more thing though, if I want to go about importing an image for a toolbar button, how do I get it in and onto the button?
Thanks for more of your time.
- James
First go to the Insert menu, Resource(simpler way is to just press ctrl + R) select Toolbar, then paste the picture onto the blank icon that pops up
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Yeah, I just read that back and I missed a key word from that sentance, sorry. How do I import 16 bit images and place them on the buttons in the toolbar? I knew how to paste stuff onto buttons, its just if you paste directly on to the button it seems to compile in 8 bit colour and it looks horrible. There must be a way of doing this, can anybody help?
Thanks.
- James
Thanks.
- James
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