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DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

I have a bitlist on my dialog and i have included a resource like so.

#resource add,icon,c:\temp\ICOS\app.ico

the file exists and is in the above location. I then wrote some code to add the icon to the bitlist, like so.

list add,bitlist2,Application Core Version %%VERSION|#app

I then compiled the exe and ran the application. The icon did not display in my list though. So now the question. What am i doing wrong?

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I think you have to use the full name of the file on resources added using
the #RESOURCE directive.

Example:

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

I have tried this but it does not work. Thank you though for trying. Can someone explain this to me???

I have another resource included called bg.bmp, i can call this one using the following.

list add,bitlist2,Application Core Version %%VERSION|#bg

And that works perfectly. Is their a icon limitation?

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

From what I'm gathering, the BitList is a list (List) that can optionally
display a bitmap (Bit) next to a list item. I don't use VDS 5, so I can't
say this for sure.

If you find that bitmaps work, you can download my bitmap/icon converter
from here -> BmpToIco.exe. It can convert bitmaps to icons or vice versa.

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

It does display ico files, but only when directly selected.
It looks like i can only use bmps when used as a reource from within vds.

jules · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:

That's correct. List elements can intrinsically display only bitmaps. When loading from a file, VDS can convert an icon to a bitmap, but it is time consuming. If you are including the resource in the EXE, you can do this conversion and include it as a bitmap, which is more efficient.