[wxruby-users] Icon issues

[Glen Holcomb]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:

> Glen Holcomb wrote:
>
>> I want to decorate the main window (frame) of my application with an icon.
>>  I have the icon in xpm format.  With the following code:
>>
>>    # Icon stuff!!!
>>    icon_file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'circadian.xpm')
>>    icon = Wx::Icon.new(icon_file, Wx::BITMAP_TYPE_XPM)
>>    set_icon(icon)
>>
>> Things seem to run okay but I don't get an icon.  If I use the same icon
>> file for a TaskBarIcon it works perfectly.
>>
>> I don't get any errors but I don't get an icon either.  Any suggestions?
>>  This appeared to be how it was being set in the big demo.
>>
> Your code looks fine. I'd check whether the icon is the right size for the
> OS (you don't say which). Windows XP expects 16x16 for the task bar & title
> bar corner icon, and 32x32 for the ALT-TAB task-list pane. Use IconBundle to
> get both.
>
> There are some sample icons in bigdemo.rb sample - do these icon files
> work? If so, it may be some other problem with your .xpm file; you could try
> using PNG as a cross-platform alternative.
>
> cheers
> alex
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Thanks Alex,

I was on Windows and using PNGs fixed my problem.  I had assumed incorrectly
that since the xpm worked for the taskbar it would work with the rest of the
app.

-Glen

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