Hi, I was wondering if someone can tell me where is the location of the icon file that the PortableApps Menu uses for the applications?
I'm asking is because I'm currently using PAM Mod with a dark theme and even with the transparency there's a halo of white around my app icons, i was wondering if I can locate the icon files and see if i can clean up the halo. Thanks
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the icons from the exe files of the App in question.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Icon in app\appinfo\appicon.ico. source in other\source\{appname}portable.nsi. edit the icon & recompile that script
thanks for your reply, I tried to edit the appicon.ico in app\appinfo\ but it doesn't work, even if I delete the whole file the icon still shows up in the menu... so it seems that the PAM is not using that file or there's a backup somewhere? So i'm guessing it's in the source? But i'm not sure how to open and recompile a .nsi file...
NSIS Installation or NSIS Portable
The icon there is the one the NSIS script uses when compiling the portableapp
see my post above. The appicon file is for the next version of the menu but its not yet used. The menu takes the icon from the exe file. To change it, you have to recompile the launcher with a different icon.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I see... I guess i'll just wait for the next version when they implement the appicon file, recompiling the launcher for each of my apps is a bit too involved for me. Thanks!
You should check out the R34 Mod Menu tutorial for information regarding the icon transparency appearance.
The section that covers this topic is located in the third installment:
http://ptc.kain-planet.de/modify3.php
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
Thanks jim,
first of all, thanks for writing that tutorial, that was the reason how i got started wanting to customize PAM. I already set the transparent color to 255 for the R, G, B values, but there is still a white halo around the buttons.
From looking at the portableapps format page: https://portableapps.com/node/12851 it lists that all 6 windows icon formats are supported, is there a way for me to specify which format to display on PAM like a 32px icon in XP format?? it seems that PAM defaults to display a 16px 256 icon that contains the white halo i'm trying to get rid of.
Thanks all for the help!
I guess that this is one of those "full circle" things.
I started digging into stuff because of the icon transparency issue. Some people gave me some good advice, including the 255 tip, and that got me into writing the R34 Mod Menu tutorial.
The halo around the icons is where they have been shaded to give them a 3D effect. The 255 works for the white background, but that shading isn't true white, so it stays as the original almost white color and not transparent.
To tell you the truth, I ended up using almost white backgrounds for the main portion of the menu just to eliminate this issue. Dark or graduated backgrounds might be neat, but the icon appearance is just too crappy.
BTW, thanks for the kind words!
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
To tell you the truth, I ended up using almost white backgrounds for the main portion of the menu just to eliminate this issue. Dark or graduated backgrounds might be neat, but the icon appearance is just too crappy
I do the same - it bugged me having the halo around the edges so I only use ones where it doesn't show. Even though there's some really nice ones with dark backgrounds.
Also, I've not actually read that far into the tutorial before, it's a nice tutorial
Thanks!
I'll be happy when we can manipulate the icons to make them look better.
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com