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Re: icons...again
tim wrote in message <965943837.578254@clint.waikato.ac.nz>...
>I am having no success at all trying to get icons into my dylan
application.
>
>I tried using the win32-icon class to make an icon. this didn't work. eg
>
>read-image-as(<win32-icon>, "iconname", #"small");
>
>I tried damn near every combination and it didn't work.
>has anyone sucessfully used icons in their dylan apps?
>
>I looked at all the examples, they use the win32-icon class but use a macro
>to initialize them.
>
>ok, and another thing. I should'nt have to get into platform specific code
>to be able to add an icon. DUIM should provide these facilities... (it
does,
>but i can't seem to get it to go).
You're hosed on the platform-specific stuff, because you
need to grab these icons out of a resource that gets linked
with you application.
I find the DUIM support for icons a personal embarrassment,
but Windoze is not very cooperative. FWIW, the X-like DUIM
implementations get all this right, not that that does you any
good.
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