How Change Icon In Taskbar - Not Tray !

[hankallan]

I've read the forums and help till I'm blurry eyed but cant seem to find how to change the icon of an compiled script whose button on the Taskbar shows the AutoIt icon. I want to change the taskbar icon to my own icon. As an example script I'm using the message box popup.

thanks in advance

[JSThePatriot]

I've read the forums and help till I'm blurry eyed but cant seem to find how to change the icon of an compiled script whose button on the Taskbar shows the AutoIt icon. I want to change the taskbar icon to my own icon. As an example script I'm using the message box popup.

thanks in advance

If you are using CompileAU3 that comes with SciTE it is an option to select your own. I am not sure how that works with the AUT2EXE, but some how it does it.

I recommend downloading SciTE from here. SciTE4AutoIt3

JS

[CyberSlug]

If you follow JSThePatriot's instructions then runt the compile dEXE, you should see the icon in the taskbar. Note that the icon on the message box itsself will remain generic unless you substitue the MsgBox with your own GuiCreate....

HOWEVER, if I compiled with one icon then reompiled with a different icon, I get the old icon in the taskbar and the new icon in the tray?!?

WinXP Pro sp2, 3.1.1.87 beta, I think; newest SciTe4Autoit.... [screenshot attached]

[Jos]

If you follow JSThePatriot's instructions then runt the compile dEXE, you should see the icon in the taskbar. Note that the icon on the message box itsself will remain generic unless you substitue the MsgBox with your own GuiCreate....

HOWEVER, if I compiled with one icon then reompiled with a different icon, I get the old icon in the taskbar and the new icon in the tray?!?

WinXP Pro sp2, 3.1.1.87 beta, I think; newest SciTe4Autoit.... [screenshot attached]

For me it updated fine after changing the ICON....

EDIT: Correction... it does show this behaviour with just a MSGBOX... works fine with GUI...

EDIT2: This issue clears after a reboot so probably the ICON is cached somewhere ...

Edited November 18, 2005 by JdeB

[hankallan]

Hey that worked !

(Using compile from the menu in Scite)

Thanks all.

[Sokko]

HOWEVER, if I compiled with one icon then reompiled with a different icon, I get the old icon in the taskbar and the new icon in the tray?!?

WinXP Pro sp2, 3.1.1.87 beta, I think; newest SciTe4Autoit.... [screenshot attached]

I ran into this problem myself a little while ago. Windows keeps a cache of icons that it associates with executable filenames, and it really likes to use the ones in the cache even if the contents of the program have changed. The good news is that the filename is the only thing it associates with the icon, so if you rename your compiled EXE, you should notice the icon update properly. As JdeB pointed out, the issue will sometimes be fixed after you reboot, and there are a number of programs out there that will force Windows to rebuild the cache without restarting. I just happened to notice that a program I already had, RegSeeker, had this functionality (though it annoyingly scrambles the positions of your desktop icons as well).

If you follow JSThePatriot's instructions then runt the compile dEXE, you should see the icon in the taskbar. Note that the icon on the message box itsself will remain generic unless you substitue the MsgBox with your own GuiCreate....

Message boxes spawned by the compiled script should also have the icon that was given to the executable. I don't remember if I ever ran across a msgbox style that negated this functionality, but there might be one. Edited November 23, 2005 by Sokko