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I have a permanent script, with lot of useful little hotkeys, and I run often other scripts, which doesn't necessarily exit when finished...
I wanted to distinguish my permanent script from the other on the systray.
I first added:
Menu Tray, Icon, %A_AhkPath%, 6
but I wasn't too happy with it...
So I searched and found back a nice logo made by AGermanUser aka AGU:
I liked the idea a lot, very suggestive...
It was first saw on his site (or another?) but I only found this topic, which is enough for my needs.

Anyway, I had to transform this to an icon.

I first made two images: (untouched) and (retouched, with transparency in the icon).
Then I resized them to the more standard 32x32 format: and
Then with SnIco Edit, I made two icon files with 32x32x24 32x32x8, 16x16x8 and 16x16x4 formats:
HOT!Key2.ico and HOT!Key.ico


Of course, use it with the following line:
Menu Tray, Icon, %A_ScriptDir%\HOT!Key.ico
adjusting the path as needed.

To AGermanUser: I have put credits to you in the PNG images:
[Author] Philippe Lhoste aka PhiLho, based on an image by AGermanUser aka AGU
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtop ... 7794#27794
[Title] AutoHotkey - It's definitely a HOT key
[Copyright] Copyright © 2006 Philippe Lhoste / PhiLho
Copyright © 2005 AGermanUser / AGU

Let me know:
1) If you allow me to use your image this way. Otherwise, I will remove this topic.
2) If the above credits are OK. I used your nickname because that's only what I know. I can change them.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

sweet!

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I use this icon for my scripts (I know it looks like AU3 but who cares, it looks good):

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What code is used to change the icon to your own icon? I've tried a bunch of variations on the code you gave, but keep getting variations of the default icon instead of my own icon...

Thanks!
Erik

Hey PhiLho,

nearly forgot about that one. Thx for your credits. Of course you can use it. You're welcome.

I also found the multi-layered sources on my hard disk. Tell me if you possibly need it. In this way you could possibly get rid of this text boxes ("Autohotkey" & "It's definitely a hot key") and uncover the full flame. It's in PSP format (Paint Shop Pro 7.0) if this helps you.
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AGU a.k.a AGermanUser

Thank you for your approval.

I am actually happy with my cropping/touch-up, as it maximizes the key size, so it is still OK in the systray.
But well, you can PM your file, I may want to hack it more.
Do you allow me to reuse this image (touched up to personnalize it a bit) if I even find time to do some pages on AutoHotkey? With due credit, of course.

Out of curiosity, how did you made this image? Just colorizing a key and putting a flame image on top of it?

Anyway, I really like the concept, it is much more original that some robot hand or something...

@erikcw: I forgot to put the information on my message, I updated it to show the line I use.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

PM'ed you the files.

Sure. Be creative - use it at free will.

Jep. This is the way it happend. I selected one key within the picture and used "ColorBalance" within PSP to give it a red (hot) color. Afterwards a flame on top - voilà.

I have no doubt that the whole idea about a hot key could be designed much better than my approach. From my point of view I was always unhappy with the flame. I think for icons a flame like for example the fire within the Ahead Nero Icon would be much better.

btw. have you seen my other logo I recently posted. It's a .svg file made with Inkscape. Maybe it's on any use. Feel free to use that one too.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10020

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