-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 'Lo Keith,
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:53:26 +0100 your time, you authored this: <snip> KA> If there are no suitable alternative solutions Yes, there is a way of doing it, although I don't know whether you will consider it a suitable alternative. It involves using a resource editor and an icon editor to modify TB!s resources. Nonetheless, the process is a quite a simple one, and involves assigning your own icon resource to the existing animation resources in TB!. If you don't have a resource editor (like eXeScope or Restorator), then a freeware app called Resource Hacker will do the job nicely. Any modest icon editor will do as well. You can get the free Resource Hacker from here: http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ These snaps are the TB! tray icon without mail and with mail after modding with Resource Hacker.. the envelope icon is taken from a TB! icon resource: http://www.netbanger.com/offsite/bat_nomail.gif http://www.netbanger.com/offsite/bat_mail.gif This is how you would change the animated bat to something 'appearing as static' in Resource Hacker: Step 1. ~~~~~~~ 1. Make a copy of thebat.exe 2. Open Resource Hacker and open thebat.exe 3. Expand the folder "Icon Group" in the resource tree 4. Select the subfolder "ICON_VIEWER" and expand it 5i. Select and right-click the resource "1049"... 5ii. ...choose the third context menu entry, "Save [ICON GROUP:ICON_VIEWER : 1049]..." and save it to disk as "ICON_VIEWER.ico" Step 2. ~~~~~~~~ 6. Open the save file ICON_VIEWER.ico in an icon editor and add a copy the 16 colour 16x16 icon. Add a 256 colour 16x16 icon to the icon resource and paste the 16 colour 16x16 icon into it. 7. Save and exit. Step 3. ~~~~~~~ 8. In Resource Hacker, under the 'Action' menu, choose "Replace Icon.." 9. In the new window, choose the "Open file with new icon" button and browse to and select your modifed icon resource ICON_VIEWER.ico 10. In the right-hand pane of the window, under the 'Select icon to replace" list, select "Z_BAT_0" 11. Click the 'Replace' button. 12. Repeat 8-11 for icons Z_BAT_1, Z_BAT_2, Z_BAT_3, Z_BAT_4, Z_BAT_5 13. Save and Exit Now when you load TB! you will have an envelope icon in the tray rather than the animated bat when you have unread mail. - -- Sl�n, Simon @ theycallmesimon.co.uk _______________________________________ Faffing about with TB! v1.61 on W2K SP3 PGP Key: http://pgp.netbanger.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Privacy is freedom. Protect your privacy with PGP! Comment: KeyID: 0x5C7E8966 Comment: Fingerprint: 851C F927 0296 FF1C 70A2 474F CB6E 6FFE 5C7E 8966 iQA/AwUBPb6mJ8tub/5cfolmEQKULwCghA21ldGe1oynk8EjFf9e19G6ofQAoLTz mhgYr0onMbEzR0Jsr0/OPmfX =Ti+N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
