b bit icon in standalones

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/13/02 11:06 AM, Klaus Major wrote:

> I meant: has someone succesfully replaced the 4 bit MC icon
> of a standalone with another 8 bit icon.
> 
> If yes, how ? What icon-editor can do this ?

I would also love to be able to do this, but so far I haven't found a 
way. MC only allows enough space in the file itself for a 4-bit icon. I 
have seen some Windows programs that have separate .ico files in their 
folders and presumably the application is using that icon, but I don't 
know how it is done (a registry entry, maybe?) I asked once if MC could 
be updated to allow 8-bit icons, because that's really the standard 
these days, but apparently it would require too many changes to the MC 
file format to be practical. I have some beautiful Mac icons for my apps 
that I can't use in Windows, which is a shame. If anyone knows whether a 
registry setting would allow the use of 8-bit icons, I'd very much like 
some instructions.

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