On approximately 4/3/2008 4:59 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of John:
This idea is something I will follow up on because I think it is a way
of automating what I am doing manually with a resource editor at the
moment and I need to understand what is happening better, but I don't
think it will address my original issue.
I had two issues that I was trying to solve with a common solution.
1. I wanted a particular icon in the executable package file so that
it would display on the desktop, explorer etc. --icon, the methods you
indicate above or a resource editor can facilitate this.
2. I wanted the same icon to appear in my apps window title bar. I was
trying to extract the icon from the executable that was processing my
script, believing it to be (or to have inherited the icon from) the
executable package, and could not find the one I wanted. Digging
deeper reveals this is not the case. For now, my workaround is to use
--addfile to include my icon file in the package.
$0 is the executable which is the par file, and maybe it is the one that
contains the icon, eh?
But $^X is the pseudo-perl that is executing your script.
Not sure what you were using to try to find the icon with.... the
assumptinos that Win32::GUI::Icon makes as a default might be wrong
under PAR... might be nice if that were fixed, talk about that on the
Win32::GUI list, maybe.
