If you Can't Access your Custom Icon...

Novell Cool Solutions: Trench
By Jamie Glendinning

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 16 Jul 2003

When creating a ZEN application, you want to add your own custom icon. However, there is sometimes a problem when adding the icon in ConsoleOne: you browse to it but the icon is not available.

Here's what we found the problem to be. The icon may contain too many colors. When creating the icon file in whatever app you use, be sure to save it at the lowest color setting that you can. We found that using 16 colors worked.

Reader Comments

• Isn't it just a TID10025715 ? or am I missing something ? http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10025715.htm
• We use a program called IconSuck to extract the icon from the .exe first, then use consoleone to assign it to a app object.
• Who would have ever thought
• Icon can contain 256 colours and should be 32 x 32 pixels big.
• Finally an answer to a question that has been bothering me for YEARS! Thanks Jamie!
• It sucks, but it's true. I've had to use IconForge to create low-colour versions of many application icons.
• kinda obvious
• Old info and also in a TID
• Well yeah, but most apps are expecting 256 colors at the very least, some want 16 million...any plans to modernize? Also, you can still add the higher color icons in NWAdmin, even if they don't always look as good in the NAL window.

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