TIcon, or not TIcon |
The version of Delphi I'm using for my development has this little quirk... it can't accept a 16 bit icon linked in as an external resource, but if I embed the icon directly as an image - it will work???!
It makes no sense to me because the concept of an embedded icon should be more complicated if anything than one located in a resource file.... Still, it does mean that using icons is less fiddly because I don't have a headache of loading resources and stuff in the code.
There have been a few good ideas / requests come in already for the project via IRC, so soon the launcher will be able to handle SE1/2/3/4, Starfury and SE5 will follow when I get them (Starfury is actually just installing now).
Further plans are to integrate with email/se5a's new Play by FTP/Play by Web/Lan Shares/Peer-to-peer? - but these will all come as and when I figure out how to do them >_
Re: TIcon, or not TIcon
Icons embedded into exe's need to be 256 colors regardless of which programming language you are using. I recommend you simply convert the icon to 256 colors. that should make everything work.
Cheers!
P.S. I also like to make both a 32x32 and a 16x16 size in the icon file to be encoded. If you want a larger or higher color icon, make it and use the 'change icon' feature in windows when you edit the properties of a shortcut.