Re: [lazarus] Window Icon again - Proposal
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:47:39 +0200 A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Here is a proposal on how to address the window icon issue in a cross-platform AND delphi compatible way. 1) Use ifdefs to do different implementations on plaftfroms. 2) Win32 use a resource same as any other app 3) Linux/Freebsd/Apple (not the native one though) all use X11. I know GTK cannot force app-icons, The linux/gtk forms have icons. What is missing, are icons showing in the file managers. This is normally done by copying an image of the executable name to a directory like /usr/shar/pixmaps/. but X11 can, and X11 is at least in c capable of using bmp´s from include files to do so. So the implementation on all X11 based platforms should simply BYPASS the widget set entirely and set the wm_hints property directly using the available Xlib translations. This way, the only odd-ones-out are carbon and w32, and it will work with gtk, gtk2, qt, * on X11´s. I don´t have the windows skills to do that implementation, but if somebody familiar with the lazarus code-layouts are up for helping me a bit, and the big-guys say the´ll go for it, I am happy to help with a patch for the X11 stuff, there are a bilion examples of how to do it on the net, just need to translate one to OP. The trickiest bit is likely to be reading an X11 Pixmap variable out of a TPixmap. See thread Application Icon under Win32 (modified patchs) from 9 Feb 2005 Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Window Icon again - Proposal
The linux/gtk forms have icons. What is missing, are icons showing in the file managers. This is normally done by copying an image of the executable name to a directory like /usr/shar/pixmaps/. Aye which will usually set the window icon anyway so normally it doesn't bother people - except my program is meant to run uninstalled from a DVD so that doesn't entirely work anymore. But then... if the linux forms have icons... where/how do you set them ? Or is the ONLY way currently to install an icon to $ICONDIR. I can't find any place to do so under project options (latest lazarus from svn). The trickiest bit is likely to be reading an X11 Pixmap variable out of a TPixmap. See thread Application Icon under Win32 (modified patchs) from 9 Feb 2005 Thanks for that. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architext OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Window Icon again - Proposal
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 19:28, A.J. Venter wrote: The linux/gtk forms have icons. What is missing, are icons showing in the file managers. This is normally done by copying an image of the executable name to a directory like /usr/shar/pixmaps/. Aye which will usually set the window icon anyway so normally it doesn't bother people - except my program is meant to run uninstalled from a DVD so that doesn't entirely work anymore. But then... if the linux forms have icons... where/how do you set them ? Or is the ONLY way currently to install an icon to $ICONDIR. I can't find any place to do so under project options (latest lazarus from svn). Scratch that, found it in the form properties, been using lazarus too long, I'm too used to what isn't there... A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architext OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
