Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Abhishek" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Subject: Re: What kind of an icon do I need for a VB6 program? Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:36:52 +0530 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: Ko9/Vp0rlLqikJ0y8pPHBg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:322 256 color icons in 16, 32, 48 pixels 32-bit color icons in 16, 32, 48, 64 pixels these are enough for use on xp, vista and 7. Dont select the icons at design time, load them using code below and resource file, having icon above 64x64 size is pretty useless and it only increases the size of application. I only use 16, 32, 48 size icon with 256 color and xp color each. I would recommend microangleo icon editor, actually there are many good freeware too. use 32-bit alpha icons in vb6 apps http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=59231&lngWId=1 -- abhishek http://vb6zone.blogspot.com "C" wrote in message news:ad9a911d-8075-435a-a1db-dc20c5540826@fr19g2000vbb.googlegroups.com... |I would like to make an icon for a VB6 program which will look decent | on Windows 7 as well as XP. Should it be of 48 x 48 or 64 x 64? And | does VB6 compiler accept those? Thanks. | | I am planning to download GIMP to recreate the icon with anti-aliasing.