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PostPosted: July 1st, 2007, 5:21 am 
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As most of you know, you really can't find a FREE Icon Creator. I did some searching and believe it or not, i actually found one.

Download IcoFX Here

This program is kind of like paint with these extra options:

Colors: Anywhere from 2 colors (1bit) all the way to True Color + Alpha Channel (32 Bits)

Size of Icon: 16x16 to 256x256 and even custom.

Zoom: 100% to 1,000%

Just Some Other Features: Tons of effects (not even getting into it; check it out for yourself!) and also really nice image editing (brightness, contrast, hue/saturation, opacity, fadout, shadow, ..............)

Those are just a couple of features. Figured this program may help some of you out with the creation of your programs and for the few of you that have stolen some copywrighted icons. :D

You can also you images and extract other icons. To me, i feel this is the best freeware icon creator you can have!


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PostPosted: July 1st, 2007, 9:24 am 
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Why do you offer a download from rapidshare and not a link to the homepage?

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PostPosted: July 1st, 2007, 2:20 pm 
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well, if you want to answer a bunch of questions, and have to keep going through many advertisements just to get the download, go ahead, i was just trying to make it easier for people.


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PostPosted: July 1st, 2007, 3:07 pm 
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If you check there is a direct download link in the IcoFX homepage without questions or advertisments you say: download
IcoFX. I think that is less intuitive downloading it from rapidshare.

Bye! :shock: :)


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PostPosted: July 2nd, 2007, 9:31 am 
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As most of you know, you really can't find a FREE Icon Creator.
No, I didn't knew this, as I already have some free icon creators on my hard disk... Most of them have been discussed already in this forum, BTW.


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PostPosted: July 6th, 2007, 9:40 am 
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IMO, you're better off with @icon sushi and your image editor of choice.
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image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
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Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL


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PostPosted: July 10th, 2007, 5:16 pm 
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I often use paint.net for the graphic and http://www.convertico.com/ for the .ico conversion.

Edit: Icon Sushi looks pretty cool, thanks for the link!

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PostPosted: September 17th, 2007, 9:57 pm 
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lexikos wrote:
IMO, you're better off with @icon sushi and your image editor of choice.
icon sushi wrote:
image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
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Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL


Hi lexikos,

I seem to be going around in circle trying to figure our IF, let alone finding out how the tray icon can be changed. Is there nothing in the AHK library that'll let you rather simply change it?

I'd like to be able to designate a different icon for the compiled exe file so that when I put it on the desktop top to be run from there it would show a more meaningful icon. Currently, I've got a script that ends up calling Acrobat such that it opens in a more practical default directory than just My Documents. In this case I'd like to have the desktop icon use the Acrobat icon. Is this do-able or am I chasing rainbows?


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PostPosted: September 18th, 2007, 2:02 am 
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AHK Icon Changer
This utility will let you change the icon when you compile the .ahk to an .exe file.
Here are some icons...
32x32 size should be good, though tray icons are 16x16... use www.convertico.com to convert to .ico, or whatver icon software you have.
Changing the executable's icon will also change the tray icon... Alternatively, you can manually specify the tray icon within the script:
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Change the Tray Icon or ToolTip (MenuName must be TRAY)

Icon [, FileName, IconNumber, 1]: Changes the script's icon to one of the ones from FileName. The following types of files are supported: ICO, CUR, ANI, EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, and other types that contain icon resources. To use an icon group other than the first one in the file, specify its number for IconNumber (if omitted, it defaults to 1). For example, 2 would load the default icon from the second icon group. Specify an asterisk (*) for FileName to restore the script to its default icon.

The last parameter: Specify 1 for the last parameter to freeze the icon, or 0 to unfreeze it (or leave it blank to keep the frozen/unfrozen state unchanged). When the icon has been frozen, Pause and Suspend will not change it. Note: To freeze the current icon, use Menu, Tray, Icon,,, 1 ; (or 0 to unfreeze)

Changing the tray icon also changes the icon displayed by InputBox, Progress, and subsequently-created GUI windows. Compiled scripts are also affected even if a custom icon was specified at the time of compiling. Note: Changing the icon will not unhide the tray icon if it was previously hidden by means such as #NoTrayIcon; to do that, use Menu, Tray, Icon (with no parameters).

Slight distortion may occur when loading tray icons from file types other than .ICO. This is especially true for 16x16 icons. To prevent this, store the desired tray icon inside a .ICO file.

There are some icons built into the operating system's DLLs and CPLs that might be useful. For example: Menu, Tray, Icon, Shell32.dll, 174 ; Omits the DLL's path so that it works on Windows 9x too.

If this isn't what you're looking for, sorry, but I hope it helps! If you need more help just let me know!

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PostPosted: September 18th, 2007, 5:11 am 
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Dave Campbell wrote:
I seem to be going around in circle trying to figure our IF, let alone finding out how the tray icon can be changed. Is there nothing in the AHK library that'll let you rather simply change it?
If you want the same icon for the .exe and the tray, simply start Ahk2Exe manually and select the icon (click Browse next to "Custom Icon".)

I recently had a need to include a bunch of icons in a compiled script. Among them was a 32x32 icon for the .exe and Alt+Tab, and a seperate 16x16 icon for the tray (since squashing the 32x32 icon looked bad.) To do this, I used ResHacker to overwrite the default icon (for the .exe and Alt+Tab) and the suspended, paused, and paused/suspended tray icons. By default, AutoHotkey would use the 32x32 (or 48x48?) icon in the tray. To get it to use a 16x16 icon, I inserted it as a seperate icon (again, using ResHacker), and set the default tray icon in script:
Code:
    if A_IsCompiled
    {
        ; Default icon is 32x32, so doesn't look good in the tray.
        Menu, TRAY, Icon, %A_ScriptFullPath%, 19
    }
In this case, %A_ScriptFullPath% is the path of the compilex script (.exe), and icon #19 is my tray icon.

You could insert the icons into your script.exe, but rather than do this repetitively, I chose to make a copy of ahk2exe and AutoHotkeySC.bin just for this script. I then used ResHacker to insert/replace the icons in AutoHotkeySC.bin (which is used as the base of all compiled scripts.)

Btw, AHK Icon Changer automates ResHacker to replace the main, suspended, paused and paused/suspended icons. I did this manually, since I needed to add other icons as well. :)


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PostPosted: September 18th, 2007, 3:11 pm 
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Nice progy. Thx for sharing.

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PostPosted: September 18th, 2007, 3:37 pm 
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lexikos wrote:
Dave Campbell wrote:
I seem to be going around in circle trying to figure our IF, let alone finding out how the tray icon can be changed. Is there nothing in the AHK library that'll let you rather simply change it?
If you want the same icon for the .exe and the tray, simply start Ahk2Exe manually and select the icon (click Browse next to "Custom Icon".)

I recently had a need to include a bunch of icons in a compiled script. Among them was a 32x32 icon for the .exe and Alt+Tab, and a seperate 16x16 icon for the tray (since squashing the 32x32 icon looked bad.) To do this, I used ResHacker to overwrite the default icon (for the .exe and Alt+Tab) and the suspended, paused, and paused/suspended tray icons. By default, AutoHotkey would use the 32x32 (or 48x48?) icon in the tray. To get it to use a 16x16 icon, I inserted it as a seperate icon (again, using ResHacker), and set the default tray icon in script:
Code:
    if A_IsCompiled
    {
        ; Default icon is 32x32, so doesn't look good in the tray.
        Menu, TRAY, Icon, %A_ScriptFullPath%, 19
    }
In this case, %A_ScriptFullPath% is the path of the compilex script (.exe), and icon #19 is my tray icon.

You could insert the icons into your script.exe, but rather than do this repetitively, I chose to make a copy of ahk2exe and AutoHotkeySC.bin just for this script. I then used ResHacker to insert/replace the icons in AutoHotkeySC.bin (which is used as the base of all compiled scripts.)

Btw, AHK Icon Changer automates ResHacker to replace the main, suspended, paused and paused/suspended icons. I did this manually, since I needed to add other icons as well. :)


You're good! I really enjoy reading your stuff. It's so understandable and your answers are direct to the point. That did the trick, lexikos, until the the next time. If you ever get to Clearwater, Florida...


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