Morthawt Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Now that there is no default icon, I am going to want to design an icon for some of my programs to prevent them looking disgusting. I can make an .ico with photoshop but last time I did that the icon did not scale when you make icons large in windows. All other programs scale nicely but for some reason mine did not. Is there a correct way of making the icon scale? Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DatMCEyeBall Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) If you open up the .ico in photoshop, are there multiple layers? Edited January 8, 2014 by DatMCEyeBall "Just be fred, all we gotta do, just be fred." -Vocaliod "That is a Hadouken. A KAMEHAMEHA would have taken him 13 days and 54 episodes to form." - Roden Hoxha @tabhooked Clock made of cursors ♣ Desktop Widgets ♣ Water Simulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 I have nothing at the moment, I am just trying to get the method before I go messing with it. As far as I am aware an ico file is a static one layer file. I could be wrong though. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomatt Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 You'll likely need to save the .ico with multiple images of various sizes. Try a program like IcoFX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution KaFu Posted January 8, 2014 Solution Share Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) You need to have multiple icons in the .ico file (see "Size requirements: The full set includes 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256"): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511280.aspx My favorite program for concatenating icons is "@icon sushi". Edited January 8, 2014 by KaFu OS: Win10-22H2 - 64bit - German, AutoIt Version: 3.3.16.1, AutoIt Editor: SciTE, Website: https://funk.eu AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer (2022-Nov-26) BIC - Batch-Image-Cropper (2023-Apr-01) COP - Color Picker (2009-May-21) DCS - Dynamic Cursor Selector (2024-Feb-16) HMW - Hide my Windows (2018-Sep-16) HRC - HotKey Resolution Changer (2012-May-16) ICU - Icon Configuration Utility (2018-Sep-16) SMF - Search my Files (2023-Jun-03) - THE file info and duplicates search tool SSD - Set Sound Device (2017-Sep-16) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 You need to have multiple icons in the .ico file (see "Size requirements: The full set includes 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256"): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511280.aspx My favorite program for concatenating icons is "@icon sushi". Thanks, I will try this. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 Worked perfectly. Saved a 256, 128, 64, 32 version, saved as one .ico file and it works flawlessly. Thank you. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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