Hiyo, I'm trying to create a portableapp, I'm mostly done, but I'm having trouble with the icon.
I'm trying to create an icon that contains all the required formats
16px - 256 color (8-bit)
32px - 256 color (8-bit)
48px - 256 color (8-bit)
16px - True Color + Alpha (32-bit / XP format)
32px - True Color + Alpha (32-bit / XP format)
48px - True Color + Alpha (32-bit / XP format)
I have no idea how to do this. I am using IcoFX and GIMP
I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section or if this is documented somewhere and I missed it.
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I figured it out.
In IcoFX you click the windows icon to draw the icon.
"Icon/Create Windows Icon From Image..."
This can be closed. Sorry about that.
If the base app already contains an icon, you could simply start with that (IcoFX: File => Extract) and save it as
icofile. Missing formats can be added with Icon => New Image. Simply select the best quality icon (e.g. 256x256 true color + alpha if it exists) as source image and repeat it for every missing format.If the base app has no icon, you have to start from scratch, either painting or modifying a picture/icon with IcoFX or any other program that supports png with alpha channel (Gimp if you no how to use it). Best start with the largest Image and then scale it down to the smaller ones. Additional refinements could be made to the smaller icons to make them look nicer as details are lost during saling.
To get the single
pngfiles you could simply export them from IcoFX, too.You could use any of the many free icons found on the web to start with (keep licensing issues in mind).
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parallel posting, again