== Quote from Joel Christensen (joel...@gmail.com)'s article > On 27-Feb-11 11:24 AM, Joel Christensen wrote: > > On 27-Feb-11 12:56 AM, J Chapman wrote: > >> == Quote from Joel Christensen (joel...@gmail.com)'s article > >>> I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res) > >>> files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files? > >> > >> With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++ > >> utilities package: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip. > >> > >> Documentation is here: http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/rcc.html > > > Hmm. Can't seem to get it to work.
In what way? I just tried it, and it works (mostly). Add this to your resource script (eg "icons.rc"), where "myicon.ico" is the path to the icon: 0001 ICON "myicon.ico" Compile with the following command: c:\dm\bin\rcc icons.rc Then add the resulting "icons.res" to the command line when building your app. However, starting with Windows Vista, there's a new .ico format based on PNG, which Digital Mars's rcc doesn't recognise. In which case you'll get the following antiquated error: "myicon.ico doesn't contain a valid Windows 3.0 icon resource So if you see that error, use Microsoft's resource compiler (rc.exe) from the Windows SDK instead.
