where and how to get/make more icons?

[mlevin77]

Originally Posted by popdog54

Ok, are talking about changing the skin, ie the battery meter, etc, or do you want to change the icons of the programs you add to the quick launcher? I don't remember there being a feature to change individual program icons. I know you can change the skin, there's a tutorial on the Resco site somewhere.

What I want is really very simple - no skins, only icons of programs in the quick launchger. Resco Today plugin lets me put a few commonly-used apps onto a tabbed section of the Today screen. Each of them has an icon and I can change it - Resco gives me a list of "standard" icons that I can choose for any given app on their plugin. But this standard list is very feeble - short and has weird icons. What I want is simply to expand the list and have more to choose from. I see tons of icon collections advertised, and I'm assuming it has to be simple to add them to a device so that when a list of "Choose the icon" comes up, they show up in the list. Am I missing something?

thanks,

Mike

[popdog54]

I used the plugin a long time ago and don't remember that feature, so I downloaded and installed it. Unfortunately it expired on me after only five minutes. I still didn't see what you are referring to. If there are icons you can replace then the only thing I can suggest is to look in the Resco folder using file explorer and see if you can find where they are located and copy the appropriate file type, ie .ico or .png.

Maybe if you posted a screen shot of the menu where it allows you to change icons I would be able to help some more.

[mlevin77]

Originally Posted by popdog54

I used the plugin a long time ago and don't remember that feature, so I downloaded and installed it. Unfortunately it expired on me after only five minutes. I still didn't see what you are referring to. If there are icons you can replace then the only thing I can suggest is to look in the Resco folder using file explorer and see if you can find where they are located and copy the appropriate file type, ie .ico or .png.
Maybe if you posted a screen shot of the menu where it allows you to change icons I would be able to help some more.

ok thanks. Screenshot attached. And, aside from this particular program (Resco Today plugin), what do people do with the "Giant Icon set" files - after they download them, can't you just stick them in some folder where the OS expects potential icons to live?

Mike

[popdog54]

I really can't tell what type of file Resco is reading, but there must be a folder with the files, either pngs, icos, or dlls.

Just about every program icon is from a dll, so you can't just drop a png or ico into a folder to change it. But you should be able to easily change an icon that's from a launcher, as long as you have the option to do so.

The icon sets I made are mainly used for launchers\UI's (user interface), such as SPB Mobile Shell, TouchFlo, etc. I use Ultimatelaunch which uses ico files (see first attached image). Other programs use png files directly. For some others such as TF3D you need to convert the files into the right format to use them (see second image).

[mlevin77]

Sorry, I looked more carefully and it turns out I was having a brain cramp when I posted. I'm using the tabbed launcher on the today screen called SPB Plus (v4), not Resco... I've found a bunch of icon sets as CABs on the SPB website, which I've installed to SD card onto my Imagio (HTC Whitestone running WM6.5 with touchscreen). When I choose "rename/change icon" for one of the items on my SPB Today screen tabs, I still only see the same small "standard", "SPB programs", and "Custom" sets that were there before. Any idea how I get to choose from among the icons that were in the sets I installed?

Mike

[popdog54]

Originally Posted by mlevin77

Sorry, I looked more carefully and it turns out I was having a brain cramp when I posted. I'm using the tabbed launcher on the today screen called SPB Plus (v4), not Resco... among the icons that were in the sets I installed?

Ok, now we're on the same page

Originally Posted by mlevin77

I've found a bunch of icon sets as CABs on the SPB website, which I've installed to SD card onto my Imagio (HTC Whitestone running WM6.5 with touchscreen). When I choose "rename/change icon" for one of the items on my SPB Today screen tabs, I still only see the same small "standard", "SPB programs", and "Custom" sets that were there before. Any idea how I get to choose from among the icons that were in the sets I installed?

I don't know which icon sets you found, but they are probably for another SPB program, most likely Mobile Shell. I tried SPB Plus a long time ago. There was something about it I didn't like, can't remember. Anyway, I downloaded the trial version. From what I can tell the icons are located in .dat files. To add your own icons I'm guessing you'd first have to know if SPB Plus was written using VB or C++. Then you'd have to write the code for it to make your own .dat file. (I think I'm right about this, but I've been wrong before).

From using the settings in the program it appears you can only change the icons for the tabs, not individual programs. So it really wouldn't be worth all the trouble just so you could have 5 or 6 custom icons.