• Joel Christensen (2/2) Feb 26 2011 I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res)
• J Chapman (4/6) Feb 26 2011 With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++
• Joel Christensen (2/8) Feb 26 2011 Thanks Chapman. :-)
• Joel Christensen (2/11) Feb 26 2011 Hmm. Can't seem to get it to work.
• J Chapman (16/28) Feb 27 2011 In what way?
• Joel Christensen (1/1) Feb 27 2011 Thanks, Chapman :-), I followed your instructions and they worked.
• Joel Christensen (1/1) Feb 27 2011 I got it working with the DAllegro (Allegro 4.2) game library as well!

Joel Christensen <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:

I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res) 
files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files?

J Chapman <jc ch.com> writes:

== Quote from Joel Christensen (joelcnz gmail.com)'s article
 I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res)
 files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files?

With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++
utilities package: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip.

Documentation is here: http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/rcc.html

Joel Christensen <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:

On 27-Feb-11 12:56 AM, J Chapman wrote:
 == Quote from Joel Christensen (joelcnz gmail.com)'s article
 I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res)
 files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files?

 With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++
 utilities package: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip.

 Documentation is here: http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/rcc.html

Thanks Chapman. :-)

Joel Christensen <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:

On 27-Feb-11 11:24 AM, Joel Christensen wrote:
 On 27-Feb-11 12:56 AM, J Chapman wrote:
 == Quote from Joel Christensen (joelcnz gmail.com)'s article
 I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res)
 files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files?

 With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++
 utilities package: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip.

 Documentation is here: http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/rcc.html


Hmm. Can't seem to get it to work.

J Chapman <jc ch.com> writes:

== Quote from Joel Christensen (joelcnz gmail.com)'s article
 On 27-Feb-11 11:24 AM, Joel Christensen wrote:
 On 27-Feb-11 12:56 AM, J Chapman wrote:
 == Quote from Joel Christensen (joelcnz gmail.com)'s article
 I noticed in windows with D you can use .res (eg. dmd main.d smile.res)
 files for icons any way. but how do you make icon .res files?

 With a resource compiler. Digital Mars supplies one as part of its C++
 utilities package: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip.

 Documentation is here: http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/rcc.html


 Hmm. Can't seem to get it to work.

In what way?

I just tried it, and it works (mostly).

Add this to your resource script (eg "icons.rc"), where "myicon.ico" is the
path to the icon:
0001 ICON "myicon.ico"

Compile with the following command:
c:\dm\bin\rcc icons.rc

Then add the resulting "icons.res" to the command line when building your
app.

However, starting with Windows Vista, there's a new .ico format based on
PNG, which Digital Mars's rcc doesn't recognise. In which case you'll get
the following antiquated error:
"myicon.ico doesn't contain a valid Windows 3.0 icon resource

So if you see that error, use Microsoft's resource compiler (rc.exe) from
the Windows SDK instead.

Joel Christensen <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:

Thanks, Chapman :-), I followed your instructions and they worked.

Joel Christensen <joelcnz gmail.com> writes:

I got it working with the DAllegro (Allegro 4.2) game library as well!