topic Re: create big icons in LabVIEW

create big icons

Kabanga — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:05:40 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm trying unsuccessfuly to create a big icon (2x3 cm) from a JPG data.
Labview needs some 4 files to create an icon. I used a third software (iconworkshop) to create these files. It worked well and LV accept them.
But the problem is, the only formats I see when creating an icon with LV is 32x32 and 16x16. Thus the created icon is too small!
Is there any way to make it bigger ?

Best regards
Kabanga

Re: create big icons

parthabe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:44:26 GMT

I dont think so.

Re: create big icons

GerdW — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:32:18 GMT

Hi Kabanga,

when you start to ask for icon sizes in cm (!) I would suggest to go to lower screen resolutions...

Just joking...

Re: create big icons

lmtis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:18:07 GMT

When they get that big are they still an icon? Seriosly though, EasyPicture2Icon will make them up to 48X48. I believe that I got it from Download dot com. Hope that helps.

Cheers!

Re: create big icons

GerdW — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:25:02 GMT

Hi Jim,

the point is: LV only supports icons in sizes of 32×32 and 16×16 points...

Message Edited by GerdW on 04-29-2008 02:25 PM

Re: create big icons

lmtis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:29:50 GMT

Hi Gerd,

I didn't know if LV8.5 had added big icons for some reason (absurd resolution monitors? )

Re: create big icons

Kabanga — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:42:49 GMT

Hi Gerd,
I wanted simply people to have an idea of how big I want the icon to be

I think it's a pitty that LV doesn't allow doing bigger icons !

Is there really no way to do bigger icons? even with LV 8.5. I didn't try it !

Best regards
Kabanga

Re: create big icons

Kabanga — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:01:49 GMT

with iconworkshop you get even bigger icons. The problem is with LV !!! why are they limiting that to 32x32 and 16x16 ?!

Best regards
Kabanga

Re: create big icons

Andrey_Dmitriev — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:47:22 GMT

Hmmm... As far as I can see, LV supported from 16x16 up to 256x256 pix:

(at least LabVIEW 8.5.1)

best regards,
Andrey

Re: create big icons

Kabanga — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:47:45 GMT

thanks for the tip!
the option is also in LV 8.5

Best regards
Kabanga

Re: create big icons

GerdW — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:24 GMT

Hi Andrey,

thanks for the hint.
It's the same with LV8.5 (no ".1") - I didn't use this feature so far as I remember having some problems (aka crashes) of LV when dealing with larger icons...

Just tested it with LV8.2.1: This has problems to accept a 128×128 icon, whereas LV8.5 uses the same for building an executable.