Hi Hamish, >ISTR that Windows's .ico files could store multiple sizes within the same file, yes?
Yes, right! In the image I posted, the icon on the right is *multiple* icon, containig 4 icons: 16,24,36 and 48 px Marco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Hamish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 21 aprile 2008 23.44 A: Marco Pasetti; GRASS Developer Mailing List Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows Marco Pasetti wrote: > I think that there's a small *issue* with the new icons in Windows: I > don't know how is the story on Vista (it seems it's becoming to be a > problem developing on Windows and not having Vista to do tests...), > but on XP icons must come as multiple icons to do a *good job*; on > Linux that's not a problem, but XP just resizes icons and doesn't > resample them (and that matters if they need to be displayed in a size > different from the original). > GRASS icons are in 64px size, while windows commonly uses 16 and 32px > size. > > I usually make icons in multiple format with the following sizes: 16, > 24, 32 and 48 px. Using only the 64px size the icons on windows, even > at 32px size, seem less definite and, surely, not beautiful as the > originals. I attached an example that shows how icons appear on > windows at 32px size (the most used, along with 16px size): on the > left the original, on the right the modified version (I resized the > original 64px icon to 16,24,32, and 48px images and saved all as > multiple icon). AFAIK lib/init/grass.ico is Windows specific, so Windows-ize it as needed. ISTR that Windows's .ico files could store multiple sizes within the same file, yes? Hamish ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev