[GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows

[marco.pasetti at alice.it]

Hi all,
 
if you want (and if you consider that appropriate) I could prepare multiple icons for windows, with the following format: 16,24,36,48 and 64 px
waiting for reply... ;-)
 
Regards,
 
Marco

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Da: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org per conto di Marco Pasetti
Inviato: mar 22/04/2008 1.17
A: 'Hamish'; 'GRASS Developer Mailing List'
Oggetto: R: [GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows




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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