Inject icon into c++ program

vs.net 2003

Ok, Made a icon, not that hard.

But vs studio.net 2003 sp1 does not supprot the new vista format yet:

".\myapp.rc(2988) : error RC2176 : old DIB in myicon.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT"

which is of course a result of the png info which did not exist before.

Is there still a way to inject the new resource into my application so vista will see it?

Vlasta on February 3rd 2007 0

Yes, you can either install the latest Windows Platform SDK or use this icon replacer.

leuk_he on February 3rd 2007 0

Just what i need! thx for the speedy reaction.

I just did not notice the left menu changed and more articles were availabe, i just noticed the "What is a ..."

jonnyg on March 11th 2008 0

I recently hit the "old DIB in xxxx.ico; pass it through SDKPAINT" problem and came across this thread while looking for a solution. I was using an application named Icofx v1.5.01 to create my ico file and I got rid of the problem by unselecting the option to "Compress 256x256 images for Windows Vista". (Menu | Options | Preferences | Options Tab)

I'm developing an MFC app using Visual Studio 2005 Pro Edition. I'm developing and testing on XP machines, so I do not yet know what impact this will have when/if I try to run this on Vista.

Vlasta on March 11th 2008 0

It will work on Vista without problems, but an uncompressed icon with all formats takes ~400kB, which is relatively lot.