How do I add an icon to my executable?

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

Try this free icon editor
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Graphics_Viewers/CoffeeCup_Free_Icon_Studio.html


Regards
Ray Farmer

[R Hibbert]

Thanks everyone for your assistance, but I have decided to drop this (for a while at least). It was/is consuming far too much of my time and I don't have much to spare at the moment.

I downloaded the CoffeeCup icon editor from http://www.smartdownloads.net/download-12672.html (Google search for FreeIconStudio.exe), but it does not appear to save 1 bit depth icons. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm not looking any further.

I've also downloaded MicroAngelo from www.microangelo.us (but not installed it due to its limited time trial).

I still feel gipped. It's a bit like buying a car and having to pay for some fuel in order to leave the showroom.

Richard

[rolfk]

R Hibbert wrote:

> I've also downloaded MicroAngelo from www.microangelo.us (but not installed
> it due to its limited time trial).<br><br>I still feel gipped.

On OpenG www.openg.org has been a suggestion and a first very simple
implementation of a LabVIEW based icon editor posted.

> It's a bit like buying a car and having to pay for some fuel in order to
> leave the showroom.<br><br>Richard

Well at least here in the Netherlands this is actually what you have to
do when buying a new car 😉 There is a separate post added to the price
tag shown in the show room, which includes things like cleaning your
car, filling the tank, etc etc, before delivering it and you can't
really buy a new car without that post.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[R Hibbert]

Ik weet het, maar ik zou eerder een volledige tank benzine hebben

Richard

[SimonAldred]

I use Greenfish icon editor. After years of getting frustrated by trying to generate an icon for my .exe in the project manager I discovered several things. One - the icon doesn't always get updated immediately. If you log off/on the correct icon can appear. Alternatively, stick with your wrong icon and build your executable. On the desktop create a shortcut to the executable. Then go into shortcut properties and change the icon. This always works for me. If you simply drag the .exe onto your desktop and go into the shortcut properties the option to change icon doesn't appear.  

I usually create 32x32 icons with colour and this seems to work. Not a very satisfactory way of working though. NI should do a lot better. Why can't it be as simple as creating an icon for a VI?

[Bob_Schor]

I stumbled upon a product called IconEdit2 (it may have been IconEdit when I first started using it a decade ago).  I don't make Windows Icons (.ico files) very often, so I need to "relearn" a bit each time, but this little tool does a pretty good job, even making "Windows 10" (256x256) Icons.  Putting pictures in the Icons is easy, and they look good.  Text is a little trickier (I haven't done this recently -- the Developer has been improving it), but certainly do-able.

Bob Schor

[SimonAldred]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the info. The main problem I face is getting the icon to appear in the executable. For some reason I have had most success with 32 x 32 bit icons, but even this can be a bit hit and miss. It just seems such a basic part of LabVIEW and it doesn't work very well, for me at least. 

Regards

Simon

[Bugsy26]

Hi,

This happened to me also. So far when i built the executable, every time it had the icon that i added in the project. Starting with few weeks ago, the builder no longer adds the icon to the executable after building the application. (the same icon that it was when it worked). What may have change to the builder ?

So the only method is to create a shortcut for the exe and add icon with Properties -> Change Icon.

Is there a workaround for this case ?

Regards,

Daniel

[zou]

Have you check the icon file (.ico) with the icon editor (iconedit.exe)?

Make sure it has all the icon sizes.

[Bob_Schor]

The only time I've had problems "seeing the Icon" on a built Executable was when I wasn't directly looking at the .exe file, i.e. I created a Short Cut to the .exe.  The icon needs to be on the Desktop of every user account that needs to use the executable.  One such "convenient place" is Public Desktop, which on my PC has all (and only) the System-Installed Programs (like Acrobat, Chrome, VIPM, etc.).  Note it does not show LabVIEW (I installed this myself using Admin rights -- I wonder how VIPM managed to "install everywhere"?

Bob Schor