On Monday, 18 May 2020 at 17:51:54 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
On Monday, 18 May 2020 at 17:20:17 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
It would be great if we could change/customise the icon of the
Command line application that run the HelloWorld application.
But I have a bad feeling that it is probably not possible
without a GUI library.
Forever thankful to Adam D. Ruppe
It is possible to embed icon into the Windows executable.
The Original Adam's thread:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/enrmidvsfdugqmudo...@forum.dlang.org
The instructions:
Download a valid Windows 3.0 icon resource
Examples:
http://files.alexmeub.com.s3.amazonaws.com/other/win98_icons.zip
Download the tools to embed the Icon for the .exe executable.
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip
Create a new text file named whatever.rc with the content
similar to this:
IDI_ICON1 ICON DISCARDABLE "iconfil.ico"
Use rcc.exe tool and whatever.rc file to generate whatever.res
file.
rcc.exe whatever.rc
Use dmd.exe compiler to embed newly created whatever.res file
into your .exe file while compiling:
dmd.exe whatever.res
You should see that the newly compiled .exe file is now with an
Icon.
And when launched the icon will be used by the Command Prompt.
Also, if you want some kind of Fancy ASCII art in your
application:
Look at the Google for any ASCII Art generator:
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Elite&t=Hello%20World
Add this line and insert your ASCII art in a writeln function.
executeShell("chcp 65001");
to your D language program source code
More about chcp can be found here: https://ss64.com/nt/chcp.html
Or here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chcp
import std.stdio : write, writeln, readln;
import std.process : executeShell;
void main() {
executeShell("title HelloWorld");
executeShell("chcp 65001");
writeln("Hello, World!");
writeln("
▄ .▄▄▄▄ .▄▄▌ ▄▄▌ ▄▄▌ ▐ ▄▌ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▌ ·▄▄▄▄
██▪▐█▀▄.▀·██• ██• ▪ ██· █▌▐█▪ ▀▄ █·██• ██▪ ██
██▀▐█▐▀▀▪▄██▪ ██▪ ▄█▀▄ ██▪▐█▐▐▌ ▄█▀▄ ▐▀▀▄ ██▪ ▐█· ▐█▌
██▌▐▀▐█▄▄▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▌.▐▌ ▐█▌██▐█▌▐█▌.▐▌▐█•█▌▐█▌▐▌██. ██
▀▀▀ · ▀▀▀ .▀▀▀ .▀▀▀ ▀█▄▀▪ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▪ ▀█▄▀▪.▀ ▀.▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀•
");
string line;
while ((line = readln()) !is null)
write(line);
}
