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Dark GDK / Loading assets and window icon

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Chaosed0
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Posted: 18th May 2011 20:09
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Hey, two different (related) questions:
1.) When loading assets, it's usually better to compress them and load them from the compressed file. Is there a way to do that in Dark GDK?
2.) How do I change the application icon that appears both in the top left of the window, and in windows explorer? This may not be a Dark GDK question, as I've often heard it can be done in Visual Studio, but I haven't been able to get it to work yet.
Thanks!
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_Pauli_
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Posted: 18th May 2011 23:40
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2) You have to include a resource file with the icon in it.
Write this in a file like "Resource.rc":



And put that file into your Visual Studio project, then compile.

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Chaosed0
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Ok, that worked for the icon in windows explorer but strangely the default application icon still appears in the top left of the window.
Anybody else have ideas? Some help on #1 would also be appreciated, though I guess loading from file regularly works just fine.
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Mireben
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Posted: 20th May 2011 08:01 Edited at: 20th May 2011 08:13
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1) By default it's not possible, unless you make your own file formats. Oneka recently published some code that can help much in that direction, look here.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=182697&b=22

Or there is this commercial application.

http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2256
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