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Re: 256x256 px icons


On 12 August 2011 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 12 08:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Oh, and, I'd still *love* to use the 256x256 setup icon in the splash
>> screen dialog, if I'd only know how to do that.
>
> Got it! ÂIf you specify SS_REALSIZEIMAGE in the ICON control statement,
> then the dialog uses the original size of the icon, rather than to
> resize it to something small. ÂIf the icon is an icon set, it uses the
> first icon in the set.
>
> Turns out, 256 is too big for the splash screen. ÂLooking for a nice
> size, I found that 1064, the size of the rasterized original icon,
> dived by 7 is 152, which looks like the ideal size for the dialog icon.
> So I added a 152x152 icon to cygwin.ico, and made it the first icon
> in the set. ÂHere's the result:
>
> http://cygwin.de/cygwin-standalone-beveled.ico
>
> Two examples:
>
> Classic Windows style: Â Âhttp://cygwin.de/splash-new-1.png
> Windows 7 non-Aero style: http://cygwin.de/splash-new-2.png

Spiffy!

Andy


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