Thanks for the advice, Mathias.
I am not that familiar with Win32 development (obviously!) but once you
pointed me in the direction of the .RES file I read up on everything a bit.
In the end, I just renamed the .RES file in there and when running 'make'
again on the source files the new icons I created were loaded. I'm using
MSYS and MinGW like you suggested on your website.
Love your product, by the way.
~Alec
----Original Message Follows----
From: Mathias Sundman <math...@openvpn.se>
To: Alexander Littell <alexander_litt...@hotmail.com>
CC: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN GUI Icon Question
List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:26:32 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Alexander Littell wrote:
Okay, so this technically isn't an OpenVPN question. Sorry. However,
maybe
someone can help me out nevertheless as the two programs are linked and I'm
having trouble getting assistance at the openvpn.se site.
Anyway, I'm trying to roll out a customized version of OpenVPN and wanted
to
change up the system tray icons from the OpenVPN GUI client. I've replaced
the .ico files (e.g. connected, connecting, disconnected, openvpn-gui) from
the source files, but the old ones still seem to compile. I've searched
everywhere that I could to replace them but haven't had much luck. Are
they
compiled somewhere else?
Have you recompiled OpenVPN GUI after you replaced the icons? You have to...
If I recall correctly the icons are compiled into a resource file by the
resource compiler (windres) and after that linked into the openvpn-gui.exe
file.
So you will not be able to replace the icons without recompiling openvpn gui
if you don't find any tool that can "patch" an exe file to replaces
resources like embedded icons.
A quick google on replacing icons in exe files indicates there are such
tools available. Here's one link:
http://533soft-icon-changer.533soft-com.qarchive.org/
//Mathias
