[AccessD] Icon Developer

I stand corrected. I missed the change in Vista to support PNG format icons.

Thanks for that info.

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Stuart

On 16 Jul 2012 at 10:31, Steve Goodhall wrote:

> Icon files support multiple images of different sizes.  Starting with Vista  
> png format is supported.  Wikipedia has a decent article.
> 
> Steve Goodhall, MSCS, PMP
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> -----Original message-----
> From: Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Icon Developer
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> Converting the initial image won't change the final size. Icons are  
> essentially .bmps.  They're 
> probably saved as 32bit colour.  Can you change then to 256 colour?
> 
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> Stuart
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> On 16 Jul 2012 at 9:40, Mark Simms wrote:
> 
> > Per the recommendations from members on this group,
> > I purchased this and gave it a whirl.
> > For $20, it did a nice job of converting some JPG images to ICON format.
> > However, the size of the icon files surprised me...almost 10x the size of
> > the original !
> > For Windows 256x256 icons, the images were very nice.
> > However, it would be impractical to use these files as custom Ribbon  
> images,
> > wouldn't it ?
> > I think I should probably convert the JPG to PNG format.
> > 
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