Thanks everyone for the help. I decided to use the default icons built-in to
the system. If they go away, then I'll deal with it then.

Thanks,

Mike McCollister



> From: David Fedor (view other messages by this author) 
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:37:15 

> >> From: McCollister, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> >> I am wanting to use the default icon that the built-in
> >> launcher uses for applications that don't have small icons.
> >
> >According to <UIResources.h> through SDK 4.0 and by direct inspection,
the
> >default icons are system resources with ID 10000 (large) and 10001
(small).
> >So a simple DmGetResource call should retrieve them.

> Err, yes, but it is unclear whether or not those'd be guaranteed to exist
> on future devices.  It'd be a whole lot safer, and fairly negligable size
> difference, if you just embedded that small icon in your own app.

> I suppose the benefit of trusting that the icon resources still exist
would
> be that if we changed the artwork, you would automagically get it as well.
> That's a tradeoff for guaranteed compatibility with future devices and OS
> releases.  No clear answer.

> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support


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