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hello everybody,

could the compiler include the icons which are mentioned in a script, so that they are within the *.exe file and there is no more the need to deliver the icons with the program directory or else they are no found (and an error-mesage popup...?

would be nice to pass a single exe file to friends and dont worry where the icons are ...

thank you for thinking about....

...sorry for my weak english ...

You could put all your icons inside the script compiler folder so you don't have to worry about file/folder renaming and other sorts of problems.

FileInstall is a command specifically made for including files in compiled scripts, but it might not be exactly what you're looking for.

I wrote a DOS-batch for the program icon which is in the upper-left in each window. I put the icon to the .ahk-file and compile it with

Ahk2exe.exe /in MyScript.ahk /out MyScript.exe /icon MyIcon.ico

"MyIcon.ico" is the one. Within the script you don't need anything special. After compilation any icon is yours even in the tray.

Peter

Those are all great suggestions.

I believe you can explicitly include extra icons of your own in a compiled script by following these steps:

1) Decompress the compiled script with UPX:
upx -d MyScript.exe

2) Use ResHacker or similar to add more icons to the script (attach them directly to the EXE).

3) Recompress the script with UPX:
upx --best --compress-icons=0 MyScript.exe

After doing that, have the script access its own icons directly by number:
Menu, Tray, Icon, %A_ScriptFullPath%, 10 ; Replace 10 with the right icon number.

It's a good idea and I will add it to the to-do list.

thank you all for your help...

I have tried out the workaround mentioned by Chris but unfortunally I got an short error messege when startet the new,recompressed script: "Could not open the script inside the EXE."

think for me maybe it will be the best waiting that the "include personal icons in comiled script" - function will come in one of the next versions of AHK

till then I´ll pass my *.exe files together with used icons in a folder in a *.zip (or selfextracting-zip) to my friends - not that elegant but it´s a way...

Thanks for trying. I tried it too and have the same problem without even adding any icons. Apparently, using "upx -d" directly on a compiled script changes it in a way that prevents it from launching.

As a last resort, I'm pretty sure you can add the icons directly to AutoHotkeySC.bin. That way, every compiled script should wind up with extra icons, which can then be loaded using the method described above.

More than 6 years passed and ahk2exe still can add only one icon to the executable. Has anyone found a good method to add more icons to executable made by ahk2exe?

Compile_AHK can do that.

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Many thanks

@jaco0646 So we are waiting for new versions

The current version of Ahk2Exe is a script maintained by fincs.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic74816.html
https://github.com/fincs/Ahk2Exe

If new versions included ways to embed media files (there are methods to do this, without extracting them afaik) I would be delighted. Else I'll just learn the fancy .dll-thingey.

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