MHo 2009-11-20: I noticed that the method described in http://www.equi4.com/wikis/equi4/267 does not work anymore with starkits 8.5.8 downloaded from http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclkit.html . Does anyone have an easy solution? It seems that the format of the embedded icons changes from time to time, as a look with reshacker shows.
Duoas 2009-11-20: Take a look at Custom Icons For Win32 Starpacks - The Real Story . Hope this helps.
MHo Thanks. But it should be possible the old way too - just copy the appropiate tclkit.ico to the root of the vfs and enverything else should go automatically. I just couldn't figure out how the iconset is organized. My guess is:
The size of the .ICO is 57022 bytes. But if I modify some Icons inside such an icon set and try to wrap my starpack again, sdx complaines about wrong sizes like that:
customizing tclkit.ico in executable icon 64x64/256: replaced icon 48x48/256: replaced icon 32x32/256: replaced icon 24x24/256: replaced icon 16x16/256: replaced icon 48x48/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 32x32/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 24x24/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 16x16/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 48x48/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 32x32/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 24x24/256: NOT SAME SIZE icon 16x16/256: NOT SAME SIZE
What sdx is saying seems to be wrong. There is, e.g., no 64x64/256colour icon in the icon set. Maybe sdx isn't up to date...
Duoas No, JCW's method has never been too reliable. If you take a look at the code in SDX to replace icon files, you'll notice that it is very simplistic and makes some assumptions about the replacement icon. It should be possible, but it seems that JCW has other things to think about before implementing code to do everything necessary to replace Win32 resources in a UPX compressed file without limitations.
Why not just use UPX and ResHacker ? It doesn't add any significant complexity to your build process, and works perfectly every time.
MHo Here is a variant of the batch from the link mentioned above which works for me now:
@echo off
rem based on: http://wiki.tcl.tk/10922
attrib -r "%1.exe"
copy "%1.exe" "work1_%1.exe"
upx -d "work1_%1.exe"
reshacker -delete "work1_%1.exe" , "work2_%1.exe" , icongroup,,
echo TK ICON "%1.ico" > "rc_%1.rc"
rc "rc_%1.rc"
reshacker -add "work2_%1.exe" , "work3_%1.exe" , "rc_%1.res" , ,,
upx "work3_%1.exe"
copy "work3_%1.exe" "%1.exe"
attrib +r "%1.exe"
erase "work1_%1.exe"
erase "work2_%1.exe"
erase "work3_%1.exe"
erase "rc_%1.rc"
erase "rc_%1.res"