Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Eclipse Ganymede branding - Getting your launcher icon right

Still, eclipse is picky when you're not explicit on your branding.
When providing icons for your windows application one by one (i.e. not with a combined .ico but single bitmaps) it is mandatory to specify a file for each
of the six sizes/depths.
Looks like win xp is looking for a 32-bit icon, so the "fault" is not on eclipse's side. Of course, it's on mine.

Iconomaker is capable of creating 32-bit bitmaps, but it is shareware.
Haven't tried gimp yet, but i suppose it can do so as well.

[update]
Yeah, gimp can do. Eclipse is just overwriting the icons from the original launcher.
If you drag your launcher in irfanview you will see a multipage icon (7 pages) you can
scroll through. I only wonder where i can specify the seventh icon, since the branding wizard only allows for six?

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