Every windows screen in our WPF application displays the ICON in the upper left corner. Numerous users of this program have the expectation of seeing their company logo.
We made the logo.ico file a "always copy" so that it is copied into the bin location along with every build. ICON is referring to the logo.ico file in this case.
The logo.ico file's icon will be reflected on the Windows screen if we go ahead and replace it with any other image.
We cannot expect the customers to accomplish this, so we must make it easier for them to browse the icon file during installation. InstalledShield software is used to prepare the installation setup. If there is a better way, please describe it here. I seek advice on how to accomplish this.
I would like you to check why the icon is getting reflected if you replace it with any other image, windows has some specification on the image size to display the icon/tile on the screen. See whether your icon is meeting all those specification to reflect it on the screen.
https://docs.revenera.com/installshield26helplib/helplibrary/IHelpMarsShortcutProperties.htm#ref-views_3737199233_1323863
you can also find information regarding the icon specification from the Microsoft documentation pages.
Apart from that, if you want to show up a browse dialog during the installation then you need to modify your InstallShield project:
1- To launch a browse dialog from the Basic MSI project:
https://docs.revenera.com/installshield23helplib/helplibrary/FileOpenDialog-HowTo.htm
2- To launch a browse dialog from an InstallScript project:
https://community.flexera.com/t5/InstallShield-Knowledge-Base/Displaying-a-File-Browse-Dialog-in-an-InstallScript-Project/ta-p/3964
But, my preference to you to check why the icon is getting reflected if its replaced with other image, and fix it.
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I have a problem where I am opening a set of html files found on the local computer which use ActiveX controls.
The constant notification popup is frustrating as every page it appears.
I cannot change the file as it is generated by an external application and I do not want enable ActiveX controls for IE in general.
What I would like to do is allow my webbrowser control, embedded in a WPF window, to allow blocked content automatically if it is from the local computer (or at the very least any blocked content as I can control what my webbrowser control can and cannot open)
I cannot see any obvious way of doing this, there are no options to allow blocked content and no event for identifying when blocked contetn has been foud.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks
EDIT -
There have been plenty of views for this question but not a single comment. I will welcome any suggestions, perhaps even an alternative control, I realise the default WebBrowser is not ideal. Are there any other browsers that do offer this feature?
To add a little detail to the problem I think I should explain the requirements some more:
The resource being displayed is a set of html files that are generated as a report by a legacy tool that cannot be changed.
The tool I have built will allow the user to define the destination for the report and then allow them to browse it using an embedded browser.
I really just need a control that will render html and ActiveX controls as a browser would but without any interference from internet security settings.
UPDATE - Unfortunately I am no longer working on this project, however I am interested in the problem/fix so I shal try and replicate it in my spare time.
I have also renamed the question as I realise the problem I am dealing with specifically is ActiveX content, which may have a solution (see answer from Rajesh) which is specific to this type of content.
You need to add the file location to your trusted sites. This is possible either with a webserver running on your local machine or if the folder where they are located is a shared folder.
In IE, go to Internet Options > Security, select "Trusted Sites" and click the "Sites" button. Enter the location (i.e. file:\server-Hostname\Sharedfolder* for a shared folder) and click "add" (make sure that the "Require server verification (https:)..." option is unchecked).
There is a lot more information available if you search "Add local file to trusted sites" on the web. I do seem to recall adding a local file location without having to share the folder, but at the moment I don't remember how I did it.
Simply add this line to your html page at the start before the html tag.
< saved from url=(0023)http://www.contoso.com/
and then select and comment it.
OK, so I have built a Windows Form application. I now want an icon for it. So I use the Icon Editor built into Visual Studio 2012. Draw it all out to look nice and purdy. Once I am done, I have a .ico file and I make it the default icon for the project, and also the icon for the one WinForm in the application.
Unfortunately, it does not show up as I have created it! It is displayed as the default icon file as it existed before I modified it in the icon editor. It's a 32x32 4 bit icon. If I change the extension to .bmp it shows up as the default.
It looks like the VS icon editor is editing something else, not the appearance of the icon. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
I used to have a progam called IconArt that would create icons that looked like icons when I used them in VS. IconArt is now abandonware and won't run on my 64bit Windows workstation.
Since I didn't get any answers within the time I was hoping, I posted this question also in the MSDN Visual Studio forum, and got a good answer that I thought I should post here. Credit to Reed Copsey, Jr, for the answer!
This is it:
You'll need to put your design in all of the different versions. ICO
files contain multiple versions of the same image, for different
screen resolutions.
My personal preference is to not use VS - there's an ICO plugin for
Paint.Net (all free) which allows you to make a single image
(typically 256x256), and save multiple versions within an ICO file in
one shot. It's very useful for building icons.
See
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/927-icon-cursor-and-animated-cursor-format-v37-may-2010/
for the plugin.
Since I am a Paint.Net user, the plugin sounded like a great idea, and I tried it. Bingo! This works very nicely.
I have been working for a few weeks now using straight gcc terminal compiling instead of an IDE. Why? No clue actually, just felt like it. I want to be able to set an icon for the compiled application though and i can't find anything on the subject except for windows based tutorials using the .rc files and winres. Is there any way to achieve this using terminal commands? If so, how would I go about doing it.
Thanks in advance
Edit: Ok, so I guess I didn't explain this very well in hindsight. I want to be able to compile a gcc application on ubuntu but I want it to have an icon on the final product. I want something other then the default icon that shows up. How might I go about doing this?
When using the command line to create an application on Windows you end up with something like filename.exe It sounds like what you want is an icon on the desktop that you can double click to run the program. To do this, right click your mouse on a location on your desktop that is just part of the background, select new then shortcut and fill in the blanks. Then right click on the new icon created for you, then click on properties then on the properties window click on change icon and fill in the blanks. The file type of the icon must be ico such as myicon.ico.
On a WPF project, if I have an image and click on 'Source' and then 'Add' I get the choice to import images into the project. Is there a way of changing this file location?
VS2010 currently defaults to the "Libraries / Pictures" setting. I'd rather not change where this library points to as I don't store icons and pictures together.
After a bit of research I set up a new Windows library (useful article here) for icons but I can't work out how to set VS to default to the icons library I created, does anyone know how to do this?
Using Process Monitor on my machine when doing this, I see the following:
Calls to RegOpenKey, RegQueryKey aimed at:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32
This seems to be a list of the last projects I've added/opened in Visual Studio. To test this, I added a project from a different location to my solution, then tried to change the source of the image.
Sure enough, the dialog defaulted to that location.
Your mileage my vary, but certainly, on my machine, the behaviour seems tied to what project I opened last. You can use Process Monitor to monitor devenv.exe while you choose an image on your machine to see what happens.
Given this, though, it would seem that you can't change this behaviour, although you can influence it.
I'm working on an application that will have attachments, and I would like to create a type of display like in windows Explorer, where you choose a "Details" view, and also show the preview pane.
I would like to be able to show a thumbnail view of the attached file currently selected, based on the file extension.
Does anyone know where I can start to look for examples on how to pull this off?
I know Outlook 2007 can also do something similar using preview handlers. I think that’s going to be the direction I want to go in, but I'm not sure where to start.
Many thanks.
All Hail the Glory of the Hypnotoad!
While you could do it in WPF, you should not do it.
Seriously: don't do it! - you would break many apps (including one of mine).
To do this without .NET, see here for a nice guide.
I think you can start here
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/eyal/archive/2007/07/29/Hosting-vista_2F00_office-2007-previewers-in-winform-application.aspx
(the code is partially black on black, at least for me, but you can disable the styles or just copy it)