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PNG as icons #10

Open Louco-Diamante opened 4 years ago

Louco-Diamante commented 4 years ago

At this moment, LinkBar only accept Windows icon files to customize link icons. Would be great if LinkBar could accept PNG files to change icon appearance with some kind of direct right click button on the icon and then "use PNG as icon". Is it possible? Thank you for your attention.

ATGH15102AFMLD commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't plan to add skins or PNG icon. Please explain your case. Why is setting an icon after converting form the png not suitable? How frequency do you want to change icons?

Louco-Diamante commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't plan to add skins or PNG icon. Please explain your case. Why is setting an icon after converting form the png not suitable? How frequency do you want to change icons?

Thanks for your atention. The onjective is not to change many times a single icon, the most cause is Windows 10 Store apps that doesnt have hi resolution icons, and most oh them doesnt have transparent surroundings since they are gray squared in most cases. So, some kind of PNG in substitutions would be the cherry of the pie. It would help alot with other applications that doesnt have well designed icons to mix up with the set. But hey, only if it will not bring too much trouble to develop.

OneMillionthUsername commented 2 years ago

Hey,

i also use custom icons for my folders and i want them represented in the linkbar as well. I think the problem is BitBlt and SRCCOPY because SRCCOPY takes only default values. It would be nice to add this feature! I would do it myself, but i am not familiar with pascal :( maybe use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf-wingdi-setdibitstodevice this instead?

ATGH15102AFMLD commented 2 years ago

@OneMillionthUsername You can convert any static image to *.ico format, then set it as a folder icon using the Windows Explorer, and it will be displayed on the Linkbar.

OneMillionthUsername commented 2 years ago

I did - but it only works for the first time. after restarting windows it does not update ...

OneMillionthUsername commented 2 years ago

Hey, just wanted to let you know that my windows icon catch could be broken. So i am not sure if my issue is caused by Linkbar