User Tool Icons

man910 · Post by **man910** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:46 pm

It would be nice if we can change the icons for each user tool. Right now it's the same image with the number 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

ramonsky · Post by **ramonsky** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:40 am

If an application has an icon, Textpad could use that icon for that tool.

If an appication doesn't have an icon, however, (a batch file, for example), then it's difficult to see where that icon could come from. Not all text editor users are au fait with creating ".ico" files.

Jill

man910 · Post by **man910** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:37 pm

You can get the icon from an executable or DLL. Remember MORICONS.DLL?

gracefool · Post by **gracefool** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:52 pm

It could use the application's icon by default, or let you pick an icon, in the same way Windoze does when you look at the properties of a shortcut.

CyberSlug · Post by **CyberSlug** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:11 am

It's possible to change the icons by hacking TextPad.exe; however, it might violate the TextPad license.

gkokmdam · Post by **gkokmdam** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:22 am

This would really make a difference. Then one can have nice toolbars turned on. A list of only hammers is really silly and un-usable.
(Though I mostly use the keyboard to get to the tools anyway. But the eye cannot be ignored.)