Thank you the prompt reply. I was looking for 'icon' in the documentation and somehow missed the entry for create-embedding-executable, which does exactly what I want.
Yes, it seems that the resource editors mess up racket's internal code embedding. Anyway, problem solved...thanks a lot! Best, Erich On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 16:33 -0500, Robby Findler wrote: > Are you using create-embedding-executable or something like it? If so, > you should be able to pass the 'aux' argument to specify the icons. > > I'm not sure why the approach you're trying is failing, but I do > believe that Racket rewrites the binaries to tell itself where to find > its code (sometimes embedding the code right in there at some known > offset), so if something is also doing that, it maybe is messing that > process up. > > Robby > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Erich Rast <er...@snafu.de> wrote: > > Sorry for asking twice...this is currently a showstopper issue for me. > > > > I need to set a custom icon for an application built with DrRacket. On > > OS X this is just a matter of adding an icon and a custom plist to the > > bundle, but I've learned that on windows you apparently need to use a > > resource hacking tool for this. > > > > However, the problem is that all tools I tried on Windows > > (ResourceHacker, IcoFX, etc.) do not seem to work with DrRacket > > distribution executables. The best result I've got so far is that the > > executable launches but fails to find some embedded collections and > > stops in the console, even though the directory structure has not been > > changed at all. Does anyone have an idea why? > > > > Another problem is that I also need to set a custom document icon. I > > suppose this is done via an installer (like inno setup) by changing the > > registry? Can someone confirm his? > > > > I'd really be very happy about any help or pointers to more information! > > > > > > Best, > > > > Erich > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
