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17 Creating and converting icons
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25 Icons are bitmaps that may contain transparency information. Under X, icons are
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27 data embedded in a C++ source file.<P>
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29 Under Windows, icon files (extension .ico) may contain multiple icons for different sizes and colour
30 depths, and can be loaded from a file or loaded from the Windows resources compiled
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33 You can decide to use only XPMs on Windows and Unix, or you could use XPMs on Unix and
34 Windows icons under Windows -- the latter will require some #ifdefs in your code or use of the wxICON macro.<P>
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36 If you are using a compiler such as Borland C++, Visual C++ or Watcom C++, you
37 can use the provided icon editor. However, if using Cygwin or Mingw32, there
38 is no icon editor so you must obtain one separately, such as <a href="http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=00165P">IconEdit32</a>.<P>
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40 To convert from XPM to BMP (which can be loaded or pasted into an icon editor to save as an ICO file),
41 you can use Vadim Zeitlin's <a href="ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/support/xpm2bmp.exe">xpm2bmp.exe</a> utility.
42 To convert from BMP to XPM, you can use <a href="ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/support/bmp2xpm.exe">bmp2xpm.exe</a>
43 which is actually the old wxWidgets 1.68 utility, xpmshow. You will have to edit the resulting
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