R: [GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows

[Marco Pasetti]

Hi Hamish,

>ISTR that Windows's .ico files could store multiple sizes within the same
file, yes?

Yes, right!
In the image I posted, the icon on the right is *multiple* icon, containig 4
icons: 16,24,36 and 48 px

Marco

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Hamish [mailto:hamish_b at yahoo.com] 
Inviato: lunedì 21 aprile 2008 23.44
A: Marco Pasetti; GRASS Developer Mailing List
Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows

Marco Pasetti wrote:
> I think that there's a small *issue* with the new icons in Windows: I 
> don't know how is the story on Vista (it seems it's becoming to be a 
> problem developing on Windows and not having Vista to do tests...), 
> but on XP icons must come as multiple icons to do a *good job*; on 
> Linux that's not a problem, but XP just resizes icons and doesn't 
> resample them (and that matters if they need to be displayed in a size 
> different from the original).
> GRASS icons are in 64px size, while windows commonly uses 16 and 32px 
> size.
> 
> I usually make icons in multiple format with the following sizes: 16, 
> 24, 32 and 48 px. Using only the 64px size the icons on windows, even 
> at 32px size, seem less definite and, surely, not beautiful as the 
> originals. I attached an example that shows how icons appear on 
> windows at 32px size (the most used, along with 16px size): on the 
> left the original, on the right the modified version (I resized the 
> original 64px icon to 16,24,32, and 48px images and saved all as 
> multiple icon).


AFAIK lib/init/grass.ico is Windows specific, so Windows-ize it as needed.
ISTR that Windows's .ico files could store multiple sizes within the same
file, yes?


Hamish




 
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