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Article #2003Re: Dos Box Icons
From: Chris Marriott
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:39
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:39
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In article <1992Dec17.194435.7959@nwnexus.WA.COM> davidr@halcyon.com writes: >A number of launchers (including progman.exe) are able to change the >icon for a full screen dos box to something other than the default. >Does anyone know how they do it! > > >Regards, >David > It's not in *any* of the manuals, but all the information you need is in the Windows 3.1 SDK on-line help system. Search for the topic "Shell Dynamic Data Exchange Interface Overview". The information about how a launcher gets information about the program's icon is described under the heading "Providing Property Data", towards the end of the topic. Chris -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chris Marriott | chris@chrism.demon.co.uk | | Warrington, UK | BIX: cmarriott | | (Still awaiting inspiration | CIX: cmarriott | | for a witty .sig .... ) | CompuServe: 100113,1140 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris Subject: Re: Dos Box Icons Distribution: world References: <1992Dec17.194435.7959@nwnexus.WA.COM> Organization: None Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19) Lines: 26 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:39:21 +0000 Message-ID: <724631961snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk