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On 2/4/2005 at 5:16:00 AM, Zoran Pjevic wrote:

> There is no really answer to this question. All you can find there is
> the advice to hack the executable and to replace the icon.
> 
> IMHO this  is a true bug of the J-builder.

A bug is an unintended behavior of a program or system.  Obviously, there
was no intent to provide the ability to set the icon, so this cannot be
classified as a bug.  It is just  a feature that you would like JBuilder
to have.

This brings up the question of whether it would make sense to add this
feature to JBuilder.  My opinion is that it definitely would not, and I
suspect that you would get the same reaction from Borland.  Of course, I
do not speak for Borland, so you will have to talk to them to get their
opinion.  In any case, here are some of the reasons that I do not think
it would make sense to include this feature in JBuilder:

First, the idea of embedding an icon within an executable file so that it
will used by a filesystem browser is very system dependent.  As far as I
know, other systems I am familiar with only associate the icon with the
file type, and this could depend on the desktop environment and/or the
browser.

But more important, adding this feature would require including all sorts
of operating system-specific code for linking the native executables.
JBuilder is almost all platform-neutral, so adding this feature would be
very costly.  Given that you can easily find Java launchers on the net and
build them with your favorite icon embedded, the benefits to adding this
feature are far outweighed by the costs.

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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