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Personalizing A5 with XBasic

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    #31
    RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

    v6 is due out in the first quarter (Jan-Mar) of 2004.

    Howard
    Howard G. Cornett, Independent Consultant

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      #32
      RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

      Ron
      You might want to try some resource editor software to edit the Icons. Such as Resource Tuner..
      You need to open the a5v5.exe and edit the ICONS there
      see the attached image..

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        #33
        RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

        That's doubtful, as they haven't gone to Beta yet.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

         [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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          #34
          RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

          I use ArtIcons Pro for changing icons within EXE and DLL files.

          Jacques

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            #35
            RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

            I have no idea what you guys are talking about....
            no experience with these 'splash executables', but willing to learn....
            sounds interesting, especially if you can use jpg's for screen displays thru a5..
            I have your e-mail adr and I'll get back to you when I have learned a little more..

            thanx
            Dick Coleman

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              #36
              RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

              Claudio,

              Can you replace the Alpha ICONS with your own ICONS using RESOURSE TUNER (rather than editing them)? If so, I could "hard-wire" the Alpha Five runtime with my ICONS and I would assume that any application using the runtime would display my ICONS. Any experience with this?

              By the way, a great suggestion!

              Ron Wills
              Small Business Technology, Inc.

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                #37
                RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                Yes Ron you can do that with RT, you can replace the alpha five Icons with your own. But I not sure if that would break any alpha 5 licence.

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                  #38
                  RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                  Also Icon Changer (part of Easy Icon Maker) can be used to
                  change .exe and dll icons and it is icredibly easy to use.
                  You can download a trial at http://www.icon-maker.com/
                  I think that the Icon Changer does not expire.

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                    #39
                    RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic


                    Claudio,

                    I downloaded the program Icon-Maker and loaded it up. I can extract Icons from an EXE file, however, I don't see how to write the new Icon back to the EXE file.

                    I tried to open an EXE file with Icon-Maker, but it will not allow you to directly open an EXE file. I have to use the FILE, EXTRACT FROM APPLICATION command. This extracts the ICON. When I then try to save with my changes, the program attempts to save it as an ICO file. What am I missing?

                    Ron Wills
                    Small Business Technology, Inc.

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                      #40
                      RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                      Ron,

                      I am not Claudio, but this is what the doc to the program say.

                      To change an application's icon, please do according to the following steps.

                      Step 1. Click the "Icon Changer ..." menu item from the "File" pull-down menu. The above screenshot will be activated.

                      Step 2. Open the application file from the right text box. The application file may be EXE, OCX, DLL, SCR, or other executable file.

                      Step 3. Open the icon file from the left text box.

                      Step 4. Select the matchable icon from left and right.

                      Step 5. Click the "Replace ->" button to replace.

                      Step 6. Repeat step 4 and step 5 to replace all the icons.

                      Click the button "Save" to save the operations.
                      Click the button "Undo" to undo the last operation.
                      Click the button "Redo" to ubdo the last undo operation.
                      Click the button "Cancel" to cancel the operations.

                      Note: this "icon changer ..." tool is not very stable at present, please backup your application file before changing.

                      Note: this "icon changer ..." is very simple at present. We are planning to develop a powerful icon changer tool in the future versions.

                      Hope this answers your question.

                      Scott

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                        #41
                        RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                        For those of you that still need an application launcher and splash screen you cas use this freeware basic compiler it is very simple to use and genertate small exe (tinycompiler). I have attached a sample code to get you started. Just replace the picture path (and size parameters) and the path to you alphafive application

                        http://www.basicguru.com/rapidq/

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                          #42
                          RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                          Scott,

                          Thanks for the instructions. They couldn't have been more obvious once I reopened the program and saw the item "Icon Changer" under the File menu item.

                          I used A5V5.exe as a test. I couldn't get it to replace the true color icons. The 256 Color Icons changed without a problem.

                          I tried recreating icons in the program, saving the Icon and then opening ICON Changer. The buttons to replace, Undo, Redo and Save remain grayed out when attempting to replace true color icons. As mentioned above, it worked fine with 256 color icons. I will keep playing with it.

                          This is a nice little program, very simple and easy to use. I hope I can get it to work.

                          Ron Wills
                          Small Business Technology, Inc.

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                            #43
                            RE: Personalizing A5 with XBasic

                            If you modify the registry key:

                            [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Alpha5.Document\shell\open\command]
                            @="C:\\PROGRA~1\\A5V5\\Alpha5.exe %1"

                            You can change the icon without using command line options in the shortcut. Just add whatever command line options you want after the %1, and then when the application icon gets clicked, those options will automatically get invoked.

                            Make sure you escape all double quotes and backslashes.

                            Does this method work on all versions of Windows? It works on my XP machine.

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