Hello,

I remeber doing a similar program a few years ago, I made a digitla
chronometer for icon... that was back in the VB 6.0 era. Oh, well.

For doing your Icon, depending on the IDE you have, it may have or not
a tool for do it, so I'm taking it doesn't have. In that case go for
IcoFx, this software is given for free (It's freeware, not free
software, it's eula is attributive and denies modification) for
creating and editing Icons on Windows Xp/Vista/7 here the URL: http://icofx.ro/
This is the one I use currently, may be other user can suggest you
other solutions.

About setting the Icon on your project, you need to add it to a
resources file, and reference it in the project file (project
properties).

For the Icon on the taskbar, I'm taking you mean the notify area, if
so.. you can use a NotifyIcon component on your form, or directly from
code. Give it a try and post back if you get trouble.

For setting the icon on Visual Studio: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/339stzf7.aspx
For info on NotifyIcon: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984200(VS.71).aspx

These sounds like issuses long solved for a lot of programmers, I
understand if you are not an artist, but that doesn't mean you can't
know how... so go and tell those developers you know that still dosn't
know.

Theraot

On 21 dic, 10:20, neuromancer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I made a little program that is a kind of punch-clock.  You click on a
> button in it, and it starts timing your work, and then you click on it
> again, and it tells you how much time you worked.
> I'd like to make an icon for it, and load the icon somehow into the
> resource area of the program, but I don't know how to do that.  I'd
> also like to make an option to have it appear on the task bar (where
> START is), and another option so that every time you start it, you
> don't start a new instance of it.
> These sound like issues a lot of programmers would have.  If anyone
> has info on how to do them, I'd appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Marvin

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