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
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