About icons.

[felipe]

I'm happy to report  that i was able to create and load a small and big icon to a window program  . 
Then i tryed, just to see if can be done, to doit with a console program and it work!.   
Of course it's great and i'm very happy with that. 
But i'm a curious cat  :P, why it worked if i didn't changed anything in the console program and, of course, there wasn't a function in the console program like LoadIcon or similar, like in a window program?  :redface:

Thanks in advance for your responses  :t

[hutch--]

felipe,

The OS will find an icon in an executable file but from memory you can't get a manifest to work from a console app. You can use an RC file to store binary data and unicode strings but I don't think you can set up a version control block from a console app. I personally use console apps just for non UI grunt work so I am not particularly bothered by the stuff they can't do.

[jj2007]

you can't get a manifest to work from a console app. You can use an RC file to store binary data and unicode strings but I don't think you can set up a version control block from a console app.

I don't use it either in console apps but it is possible:

include \masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc         ; download
  Init
  Inkey "The application uses ComCtl32.dll version ", ComCtl32$("%i.%i")
EndOfCode

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The application uses ComCtl32.dll version 6.16

Check also the properties of the attached exe.

For a more detailed example, see this thread.

[felipe]

Ok. Thanks.
I want to do other question related to icons:

Is there a way to create an icon with transparent background (to only see the figure of the icon, not in a square) with the tools in the masm32 sdk package, or i have to look for other program to doing that work?

Thanks in advance! :icon14:

[felipe]

Btw, thanks a lot!  I'm very new to icons and .rc files.  Also, i hadn't seen the link of the thread pointed to by jj. First i didn't undestand to much what hutch was saying  , but soon as i can i will start to familiarize with manifest, icons and others...

Thank you very much!  :icon14:

[felipe]

Btw, here is an example of the icon in the console program. The program is an old toy that i posted some months ago, but is used here to show an example. With the .rc file, the .asm file and the .ico file only, qeditor  with the option  "Console Build All", creates an executable with an icon (in the window menu, task bar, etc).  :t

Edited: I took away the path's format: "c:\masm32\..." that was in that old program... :redface:  :P

[fearless]

There is also a SetConsoleIcon api call, so icon can be changed to reflect different status to user or whatever use you can imagine. I used this along with CreateTimerQueueTimer recently to have an eye icon appear to be 'blinking' every 5 seconds for a tool i contributed to called DbgChild. NewProcessWatcher.exe (which is part of the DbgChild package) is a console based program: https://github.com/David-Reguera-Garcia-Dreg/DbgChild/blob/dd92fef9d8e42f5fd4909679f9f5d29bac7da2c2/NewProcessWatcher/NewProcessWatcher/NewProcessWatcher.cpp#L92

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.data
szSetConsoleIconProc    db "SetConsoleIcon", 0
szKernel32Proc          db "kernel32.dll",0

.code
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; ConsoleIcon
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ConsoleIcon PROC    IcoResID:DWORD
    LOCAL hMod:DWORD
    LOCAL hModKernel32:DWORD
    LOCAL hConIcon:DWORD

    Invoke GetModuleHandle, 0
    mov hMod, eax
    Invoke LoadIcon, hMod, IcoResID
    mov hConIcon, eax
   
    Invoke GetModuleHandle, Addr szKernel32Proc
    mov hModKernel32, eax
   
    Invoke GetProcAddress, hModKernel32, Addr szSetConsoleIconProc
    push hConIcon
    call eax ; call SetConsoleIcon with one parameter: handle of icon to set
    ret
ConsoleIcon endp

[felipe]

Great! Thanks fearless!  :t