Hello everyone
Is there a way to change the icon of the finished and merged .exe game file which is shown in the explorer? I already set the icon for the window itself with graphics.setIcon and it works fine for the taskbar and upper left window icon but the explorer icon is still the love default icon.
Sincere regards
Changing App Icon
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- slime
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Re: Changing App Icon
For Windows you might have to recompile the source with the new icon, I'm not sure. For OS X you can just stick the icon file inside the application package.
Re: Changing App Icon
Use a program like Resource Hacker.
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Re: Changing App Icon
And for Linux you cry.slime wrote:For Windows you might have to recompile the source with the new icon, I'm not sure. For OS X you can just stick the icon file inside the application package.
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Re: Changing App Icon
For Linux, you create an .application file that points to an icon.TechnoCat wrote:And for Linux you cry.slime wrote:For Windows you might have to recompile the source with the new icon, I'm not sure. For OS X you can just stick the icon file inside the application package.
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Re: Changing App Icon
That's .desktop, as for why, because applications themselves don't have icons.
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Re: Changing App Icon
... because Linux is for teh leet command line haxorz.
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Re: Changing App Icon
For Linux, if you made a .deb file or an install script, the launcher can have whatever icon you want it to have.
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Re: Changing App Icon
Uh, right. My bad. Been Linux-less for the past 4 months.bartbes wrote:That's .desktop, as for why, because applications themselves don't have icons.
But they do reside in ~/.share/applications/ or /usr/share/applications/
Re: Changing App Icon
Kinda works, thanks for this. Btw, what is the simplest way to get .ico files?thelinx wrote:Use a program like Resource Hacker.
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