Working with Standalone settings for Icons

reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:17 pm

Hello,

I have been attempting to create a standalone with different icons,
(other than the generic ones that are default)

I keep getting an error stating that the icon is missing 9 different graphic formats

So I tried several ICON graphics creation programs and still get the same error that the ICON is missing formats.

Can anyone recommend a program that can produce the correct format for the standalone builder?

I have tried, Icon grapher, Icon builder and neither one seems to build an ICON that can be used with the Rev standalone settings.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:43 pm

Hi reelstuff,

Are you using some format that is called ICON? You can use ico files for Windows and icns files for Mac OS X.

Icons for Windows work fine if they contain 18 icons: 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 pixels, each as 32 bit, 8 bit, 4 bit, 1 bit icons and 8 bit and 1 bit masks. I bet you are missing all the masks and the 1 bit icons.

To build icons for Mac OS X, I use Apple's free Icon Composer, which comes with Apple's developer tools. To create icons for Windows, I use the free http://icofx.xhost.ro/ .

IconoGrapher is a nice tool for Mac OS X, but it corrupts the masks of Windows icons.

Best,

Mark

reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:25 am

Hi, thanks for the link, yes, I was using the wrong file formats, Looks like I need to do some more research, I will check out that link.

Tim