Product Launcher Icons
Posted by Mike Haller
on Wednesday, December 27. 2006
at 00:00
in Eclipse
If you want to brand your Eclipse RCP product launcher with your own icons, you need to either supply some bitmaps or a single Windows Icon file. The problem here, besides the boring work of creating 7 similar files, is that you need some of them in 32-bit. None of the usual imaging tools I have installed were capable of creating 32 Bit Windows Bitmaps: Irfanview, The Gimp, .. not even Microsoft Paint of Windows XP could create this format.
Use the Eclipse Product Editor to specify which Icons to use for the Launcher Executable
Once again, the Eclipse IRC channel #eclipse on Freenode came to the rescue and provided some hints: The Microsoft MSDN Library contains a tool which can be used to create the 32 Bit Bitmaps used for Windows XP. However, I choosed to evaluate a tool named Microangelo Studio to creat the
.ico File. Pasting the product logo into the editor and adding a new format for each of the required dimensions and color depths.The last thing I need to do is to explain all that to my designer. My logos are pretty ugly and haven't even transparent background. This looks like Windows 3.0 and will probably frighten the users.
