On 2009-12-06 18:33Z, Charles Wilson wrote: [...vista-sized icons cause crashes on old XP machines...]
> Well then, what happens if the icon in question is inside a DLL? We have a winner. > Can you try creating a shortcut, and setting its icon to the hippo in > each of these two DLLs? The _vista one has the hippo with all > resolutions including 256x256 png, and the _xp one has the hippo with > everything but that. On both machines--XP SP1 and XP SP2--these shortcuts seem well behaved. Their icons are hippos in windows explorer. They remained hippos when I copied both shortcuts to each machine's desktop. No crash was observed with the dll as the source of the icons. Just for yucks, I tried dropping both resource dlls on the 1997 borland C++ 5.02 IDE, which is designed to extract resources from executable binaries. The 'xp' dll loaded fine: I could see all the icons, and even manipulate the hippo. The 'vista' dll failed to load, giving a messagebox: "Resource compiler error: Invalid icon format" I also tried dragging and dropping the 'vista' dll on my 2004 copy of 'irfanview'; it correctly displayed the classic 32x32x24bpp Cygwin icon. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
