Problem with Application Icon

[Allen Holman]

I am having a problem attaching an application icon to a
pocket pc application. I have attached a 16x16 icon and
a 32x32 icon. Regardless of which icon I use, the PDA
(an Ipaq 3835) displays a normal size icon with my icon
occupying the upper left 1/4 of the icon and the
remainder of the area is garbled. The program is written
with Visual Studio .NET 2003 using C# and the compact
framework.

I have lots of graphics and icons in the program and they
all work fine with the exception of the application
icon. I even have a listview that I populate with 32x32
icons and they display correctly.

I don't know what else to try.

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Allen

 

[Mark McKnight]

An icon actually consists of several "bitmaps" of different sizes and
colors. You might also have a larger icon in addition to the two you made
in your icon. Delete all icons in your icon except the 2 you want.

I had a similar problem until I realized this.

-Mark

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Note that Pocket PC caches icons used in file explorer and Start menu. You
should soft-reset the device to force the icon to be re-read from the file.
Chances are that somewhere along the line your changes may have fixed the
icon but you are still seeing a cached copy of the original "faulty" one.

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP

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