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Mark Sibly
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Ok. I think this is actually very important for any desktop work.
How do you attach icons to files?
I can simply do this with a few external programs in OSX, but really this should be part of the app process.
in windows you compile with a .ico file.
Is there a way this could be done with monkey2?
I agree that it needs to be “built-in”.
But for now, you can swap the icon without any extra software. If you already have the .icns file, simply right click the app, select “Show Package Contents”, navigate to the resources folder and drop the icon files there. Make sure it is named exactly like the executable file inside the MacOS folder, only with .icns extension instead.
One catch: usually MacOS won’t refresh the icon right away, even if you kill finder and relaunch. One quick way to check if it’s correct is to simply copy or move the app to a different folder, it should then display the updated icon.
OSX I can do already – got an app that is very user friendly, but there seems to be nothing similar on windows?
To learn how to include app icon on windows, please inspect sources of Launcher
1\ monkey2 \ src \ launcher \ launcher.monkey2There is a section
123456789#If __HOSTOS__="windows"'to build resource.o when icon changes...''windres resource.rc resource.o#Import "resource.o"#EndifFile resource.rc contains icon info
1AppIcon ICON "Monkey2logo.ico"Utility windres.exe is a part of mingw.
@nerobot Btilliant. I’ll go and look at the source now
but really this should be part of the app process.
I agree, but you guys will have to work around it for a while yet sorry.
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