Hi! I'm not sure I can be of that much help, appart from reporting what I managed to do: I created icons with VS and IrfanView (I mean I tried with both and was successful with both) and specified them with "--icon [...].ico" and it worked!
If you are in doubt about whether your icons are valid or not I would suggest you to give it a go with a Windows one... Good luck! Philippe Martin Hopkins wrote: > > Looking into the icon image under Win32 I noticed that this appears under > FAQ on the newly published Wiki. > > It states: > > "I specify a .ico file with -icon for Win32, but the icon is still the black > and white camel. What's wrong? > > Unlike Perl2EXE, which can use a standard 16-color bitmap as an application > icon, PAR requires a true Windows icon file. Download a trial version of > Microangelo and use that to create your .ico file. The latest Netpbm tools > at http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ has ppmtowinicon, which can tack a pbm and > convert it to a windows icon. It is open source and has win32 ports. " > > I've tried creating icons with different sizes (16x16, 32x32 and 48x48) at a > number of resolutions (16 color, 256, XP) etc using Microangelo. All my > attempts fail and I get the black and white Camel. > > Can anyone put me out of my misery by letting me know what a 'true Windows > icon file' as described in the FAQ and/or tell me what I'm doing wrong! > > Thanks in advance > Martin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steffen Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 May 2006 13:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: par@perl.org > Subject: Re: Executable icon... > > Martin Hopkins wrote: > > Can anyone help me set the icon of the executable created by pp? My > > pp-created app tries to access the internet when it runs and at the > > moment it shows the default perl icon plus undefined publisher > > information. I'd like to add my own icon... > > > > Sorry if this question has already been answered elsewhere but I > > couldn't find any information to help me prior to posting. > > Hi Martin, > > try "perldoc pp": > > -i, --icon=FILE > Specify an icon file (in .ico, .exe or .dll format) for the exe- > cutable. This option is ignored on non-MSWin32 platforms or when > "-p" is specified. > > I haven't tried this since I'm working on Linux. > > I do know of one bug, however. Currently, if Windows XPgroups many running > pp-ed program windows as one Task Bar item, the default (camel) icon is > display regardless of your program's icon. While this bug is known, I do not > know how to fix it. > > Steffen
