Icon application and Vista

Badara Thiam · Post by **Badara Thiam** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:54 am

Hello,

When i run my application under W. Vista, the application ICON is not found by Vista. This work fine under 98 and XP, but not under Vista
32 bits. I use the Blinker command 'RC' to link rc file in my application.

Is someone have fixe this bug ?

dutch · Post by **dutch** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:35 am

Vista 32bit is not support ico in RC file. You must use .ICO from change icon in short cut menu.

I hope it may help.
Dutch

Badara Thiam · Post by **Badara Thiam** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:36 am

Dutch,

I don't know what is exactly a short cut menu.
Is it possible to see the application icon under
Windows without run the application if i do this ?

Regards.

dutch · Post by **dutch** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:38 am

Here you are.

Dutch

Badara Thiam · Post by **Badara Thiam** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:40 pm

Dutch,

Yes, i know it's possible to choose an icon
in the properties of the application.
But my users must separately do this also...

Thank you.
Regards.

dutch · Post by **dutch** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:39 am

I try but Vista do not support ico in .RC or .DLL 16bit anymore.

Dutch

James Bott · Post by **James Bott** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:12 pm

Badara,

This is just another reason to upgrade to FWH. Is there something holding you back?

Regards,
James

Badara Thiam · Post by **Badara Thiam** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:30 pm

James,

I need to keep my 16 bits version for the stability than
i have now with my Clipper with Fivewin programs.

I run now 32 bits application with Harbour but i have
again some problems of portability, like .exe compression
(Blinker out ?), printers, zip files.

It is not simple to migrate to Harbour a big application.
Is think fews problems put the developper into a no man's land
from where he never return, if he have not the absolute
necessity to go all the way.

"Clipper" -> "Harbour" is not simple
but : "Clipper" -> "Nothing else" is the dead.

Thanks to all developpers (or contributers) of Harbour for this product !

Regards.

James Bott · Post by **James Bott** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:07 pm

Badera,

I need to keep my 16 bits version for the stability than
i have now with my Clipper with Fivewin programs.

I run now 32 bits application with Harbour but i have
again some problems of portability, like .exe compression
(Blinker out ?), printers, zip files.

I'm not sure why you need exe compression and/or what that has to do with stability? Anyhow, here is a compression tool that someone else is using with FWH.

http://www.aspack.com

Printers are handled much better with 32bit apps. Do you have a specific problem with printers with 32bit apps? There are actually a number of printer incompatibilities with the newer printer drivers and 16bit apps which will go away when you convert to 32bit.

You can also do zipping with 32bit FWH. There are different libs for that. There was a recent discussion about this (including sample code) in the FWH newsgroup.

>It is not simple to migrate to Harbour a big application.
>Is think fews problems put the developer into a no man's land
>from where he never return, if he have not the absolute
>necessity to go all the way.

If you are referring to the ones mentioned above, then I don't think it is going to be as hard as you think.

>"Clipper" -> "Harbour" is not simple
>but : "Clipper" -> "Nothing else" is the dead.

Clipper to Harbour is pretty simple in my experience. And as you said there is nothing else. It is not a matter of if you will convert, but when.

Regards,
James