display icon

[BLL]

Hi

I have copied my lazarus desktop file and edited it to run my lazarus produced program.

It works fine except it displays the diamond icon (I don't know its proper name), even though I have pointed it to Buccaneer.ico in my program's directory. What are the specs of this file, eg its size in pixels and must it be an.ico file?
Any help much appreciated

Brian

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Hi

I have copied my lazarus desktop file and edited it to run my lazarus produced program.

It works fine except it displays the diamond icon (I don't know its proper name), even though I have pointed it to Buccaneer.ico in my program's directory. What are the specs of this file, eg its size in pixels and must it be an.ico file?
Any help much appreciated

Brian

.ico files are Windows icon files. I'm not sure if they work on Linux... they probably do, mentioning it just in case...
Also, check your capitalisation. Is it Buccaneer.ico or buccaneer.ico ? With Linux, capitalisation matters...

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

Use imagemagick's convert tool to convert the .ico file to the more suitable .png file format.

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convert Buccaneer.ico Buccaneer.png

You'll then have several Buccaneer-##.png files to choose from (all different pixel sizes).

Install imagemagick if necessary.

[JimmyN]

The .ico files will work, I'm using some but they are the individual icons pulled out of the set. It may have trouble with the normal Windows .ico file. From what I've see all of the icon files provided with Raspbian are .png, .xpm, or .svg.

[BLL]

Hi all
Thanks for the replies. I used a .ico file as that is what lazarus uses!

I tried imagemagick on 2 ico files and it gave the following error message:

convert: insufficient image data in file `/usr/shared/Buccaneer/Buccaneer.ico' @ error/icon.c/ReadICONImage/449.
convert: no images defined `/usr/shared/Buccaneer/Buccaneer.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3210.

I have been careful about the case of letters!

Brian

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

convert: insufficient image data in file...

From what I read elsewhere, that messages seems to be an indication that the .ICO file might be corrupt and convert is not going to decode it. Can you upload the .ICO file and post the link?