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Launcher icon is defaulting to Eclipse icon when using product export under 3.1 RC4 / Windows XP. I tried specifying both an icon and a set of bitmaps. The Eclipse icon was used in both cases. I know this is close to the wire, but it would be sad to see this new functionality get released with a hole like this.
In the rcp newsgroup topic "Executable icon", Bob Foster says this works for him using RC2. However, see bug 102259.
It turned out to be a image format issue. I was supplying 16-color and 256- color images, but not the 32-bit image that Windows XP was expecting. This was a little confusing, given the help text in the product config editor: "Provide BMP images for low (16-color) and high (256-color) graphics"
Do you mean that images should in all cases be 32-bit bitmaps? But that would mean that each size has to be provided twice (once for "Low" and once for "High"). I don't think it was supposed to work this way. And even if it's only a help text being wrong, I still consider it to be a bug. Can anyone from PDE team investigate it further, please?
Reopening to allow the PDE team to consider this.
I don't mean that all images must be 32-bit images, only that a 32-bit image must be included for display on Windows XP. I think the issue may be that there needs to be 9 slots for bitmaps instead of 6. I've switched to using an icon file, and it now has 9 images in it: 48x48 (32-bit) 48x48 (256 color) 48x48 (16 color) 32x32 (32-bit) 32x32 (256 color) 32x32 (16 color) 16x16 (32-bit) 16x16 (256 color) 16x16 (16 color) When using bitmaps, I could get things to work by specifying the 32-bit image as the "high" version, but I imagine this would break for older versions of windows that would expect a 256 color image to be included.
I'm having this problem as well. I only seem to be able to increase the colours of my BMP icons to 24 bit, how do you go about increasing the colour to 32 bit?
(In reply to comment #6) > I'm having this problem as well. I only seem to be able to increase the colours > of my BMP icons to 24 bit, how do you go about increasing the colour to 32 bit? It depends on what tool you're using. I use Photoshop to create bitmaps, and when I save a file it asks me what bit-depth to use.
Patrick - Thanks for your response. What program did you use to create the icon file consisting of the 9 images? I have the 9 icons with the appropriate sizes and colour depths, but the software to create a single icon resource does not support 32-bit icons.
(In reply to comment #8) > Patrick - Thanks for your response. What program did you use to create the icon > file consisting of the 9 images? I have the 9 icons with the appropriate sizes > and colour depths, but the software to create a single icon resource does not > support 32-bit icons. I used Microangelo Studio. They offer 5 choices for bit-depth: 16 color 256 color Windows XP (32 bit) True Color (24 bit) Monochrome I used 16 color, 256 color and Windows XP as my three bit-depths. The Microangelo Help suggests that True Color images can be used in place of 256 color images for older versions of Windows, but not for Windows NT. I target both platforms, so I'm sticking with the 256 color bit-depth.
Thanks Patrick that worked. I must say it has been hard work getting this icon to work.
I am having this problem in Eclipse 3.1 release and was wondering if there are any other solutions. Using Microangelo, I created an icon file with the suggested images: 48x48 (32-bit color) 48x48 (256 color) 48x48 (16 color) 32x32 (32-bit color) 32x32 (256 color) 32x32 (16 color) 16x16 (32-bit color) 16x16 (256 color) 16x16 (16 color) and the eclipse icon is still being used as the icon for the executable. I am also having a problem with the icon in linux. I am using White Box Enterprise Linux 3. I am using the .xpm icon file I created and the default linux icon shows as the icon for the launcher instead of the icon I specified.
Stephanie, could you please attach your icons to this bug so we can investigate?
I am having the same problem too. I have tried with the nine image icon with no result. In my case the generated exe file is equal - with the name changed - to the original eclipse.exe.
Please attach icons allowing us to reproduce the problem. So far I have an ico file which does the work just fine.
Created attachment 28258 [details] The icon I try to attach to the generated exe file
(In reply to comment #14) > Please attach icons allowing us to reproduce the problem. So far I have an ico > file which does the work just fine. Did you make any test with my icons?
Created attachment 30886 [details] ICO which does not become part of "exclipse.exe" file after exporting
(In reply to comment #17) > Created an attachment (id=30886) [edit] > ICO which does not become part of "exclipse.exe" file after exporting > Sorry, I mis-spelled eclipse above. Anyway, I am having this same problem with that ico file not getting used/embedded into the eclipse.exe I export. I am sure that ico only has a few images in it, but at least eclipse could give me more details on what type of ICO is required. I have not tried the individual bitmaps route yet, since no one seems to have had that work on here (and it failed for me on eclipse 3.2M2 a few weeks ago). I just tried that ico with this version of eclipse: Version: 3.2.0 Build id: I20051102-1600
To properly brand eclipse you need an ico file that contains 6 frames/images. Yours only contain one. To see if your ico file has the proper shape, you can use the imageAnalyser application provided in the SWT examples (to get it install: go the intro page of eclipse, pick the samples section, click SWT, follow the steps) Once the smaple code has been downloaded, find the imageanalyser package in the org.eclipse.swt.examples project and run it as an SWT app.
Created attachment 30900 [details] 3 ico files that allows to brand eclipse.exe Here are 3 ico files that allow to brand the exe with success.
Closing
(In reply to comment #20) > Created an attachment (id=30900) [edit] > 3 ico files that allows to brand eclipse.exe > > Here are 3 ico files that allow to brand the exe with success. > I never could make this work when starting from scratch (tried all kinds of different 6 and 9 image ico's). But when I used the attached, working sample (mail.ico) as a starting point I finally made it work. Not a fun hour, but at least it works now, on XP.
We are exploring the idea of providing more usefull messages in the product editor (see bug #118811).
Thanks for the other bug that talks about creating a validator, that will help. I just tried to export an application using the mail.ico and, later, RcpMailAllDepth.ico (from previously attached zip) using eclipse: Version: 3.2.0 Build id: I20051102-1600 Neither icon would show in on the resulting .exe file after the export. It continued to be created with the default eclipse purple circle icon.
I've also been trying to get this branding feature to work with no success. I've tried exporting a product with the mail.ico and RcpMailAllDepth.ico on Windows XP with Eclipse 3.1.1, it does not work. This is still a bug. Please leave it open until it is resolved.
Created attachment 31687 [details] Sample plugin used to test Using both 3.1.1 M20050929-0840 and 3.2.0 I20051102-1600 on XP, I had no problems exporting a product using the attached icons: polux.ico, mail.ico, and RcpMailAllDepth.ico Attached is the plugin I created to test this.
How can this be marked as RESOLVED when people are obviously having the problem? I have a workspace with a bunch of plugins and a feature. I have a feature-based product file. Let's call the project I have with my feature.xml and my .project file 'SomeGUI App'. I have also imported the Ico project into the same workspace. The project with my feature.xml and .product file is a simple project. Not a java project. Here are my observations: 1) I can export the Ico product with any of the icons along with it 2) I cannot export my own product with any icons inside it's own project 3) I CAN export my own product with any of the icons inside the Ico project (including my own icon file) 4) I CANNOT export the Ico product with icon files from my 'SomeGUI App' project. 5) Renaming my project to 'SomeGUI-App' don't change anything. (in the off chance it was the space in the project that stops me) 6) Adding java nature to my project don't change anything. Well. I'm run out of environment changes to try. But it seems pretty obvious to me it is NOT the icon file that's at fault here. This is on 3.1.1 on Windows XP (SP2) btw.
It simply does not work. I tried with the mail.ico provided in attachment 30900 [details] with no success. I am using 3.1.1. Please reopen this bug.
FYI: I have just started to use Resource Hacker (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/) to put my ico into the generated EXE. Since this exe does not change often (with each eclipse release at most), it is an OK solution until the PDE can offer more flexible exe icon support.
FYI, 3.2M4 added some more diagnostics in the product editor branding section.
In my opinion the problem has nothing to do with icons (ico files). If you provide in the branding page bmp's instead of the icon file it does not work either.
From Kristoffer's comment, I've been able to track the problem down and it is coming from the fact that any file used to brand the exe has to be stored into a plug-in or a feature project.
I opened bug #121630.
My most recent tests (2005-12-12 10:39), which were failing, had the ico in the same project as the .product file (everything was in one plugin project).
Please attach them here so I can test.
It was the mail.ico from the attachment (2005-11-30 16:34). I just tried it again to verify that the mail.ico will still not work (it is still failing). I had the mail.ico in an "images" subdirectory of the project that I am exporting.
(In reply to comment #32) > From Kristoffer's comment, I've been able to track the problem down and it is > coming from the fact that any file used to brand the exe has to be stored into > a plug-in or a feature project. > I am afraid that you will have to look somewhere else. My ico and bmp files are stored in a plugin project - the same project as the .product file too - but the branding does not work.
Since the opening of this bug, Andrew and I have spent several hours to try to catch the problem but still we have not been able to reproduce the problem where images are located inside the same project (for the case caught by Kristoffer, the problem has been captured in another bug report). So please if you have a problem branding where - you are trying to brand using an ico file - the ico file is in a plug-in or feature projectjust attach to this bug a problem Then attach a workspace allowing to reproduce the problem here.
Created attachment 32084 [details] Workspace dir that shows problem on my machine This is the project I have had problems exporting with mail.ico. I did create a new project, and got it to export with mail.ico just fine, after dodging bug 102259. I don't think 102259 is a problem for this attached workspace though. Keep in mind that I removed most of the intro/help content for this project before zipping it up, but it was still failing to export with the mail.ico icon after I deleted those html/image files.
BTW, I am running eclipse: Version: 3.2.0 Build id: I20051102-1600 And thanks to you folks that are looking into this, I can imagine it is difficult to debug. This issue is not affecting me too badly, since I have started using Resource Hacker to set the ico instead, but I know it will trip people up (or worse).
I have debugged into the icon code and found that the documentation for the format that eclipse desires and the format that it actually uses seems to be the root of the problem. In 3.1 the icon passed in must have the same formats as the executable that it is being replaced in. For eclipse.exe the relvant icon formats are (depth, width, height) (8,48,48), (8, 32, 32) (8, 24, 24) (8, 16, 16) (32, 48, 48) (32, 32, 32) (32, 16, 16). If the passed in icon does not conform to those formats then it will not get used. The documentation in the code seems to imply a depth of 4 instead of 8.
Created attachment 32107 [details] The problematic project This is a project showing the problem. The ico file has the seven images as stated in the last comment.
Here is a tool for creating the ico file or 32 bit bms images: http://www.icofx.ro
