Since Xcode 4.4 Icon Composer is no longer the recommended way to create icons and is no longer included in the standard install of Xcode. Due to the introduction of Macs with retina display, it is now recommended to provide high resolution versions of all graphics including app icons. To give your app an icon … Read more
CodeProject has some classes you can download. First get the FileAssociationInfo, and from that get the ProgramAssociationInfo. The pai object can give you the icon. FileAssociationInfo fai = new FileAssociationInfo(“.bob”); ProgramAssociationInfo pai = new ProgramAssociationInfo(fai.ProgID); ProgramIcon icon = pai.DefaultIcon;
The other apps you mention (Facebook, Whatsapp, and Snapchat) don’t yet target Android O. Once they do, they’ll also be forced to have an adaptive icon as well.
Take a look at this blog entry: REFRESHING THE TASKBAR NOTIFICATION AREA. I am using this code to refresh the system tray to get rid of orphaned icons and it works perfectly. The blog entry is very informative and gives a great explanation of the steps the author performed to discover his solution. #define FW(x,y) … Read more
Since the biggest problem is how to configure the icon image source and info.plist, here is a sample to tell you how to set alternate icons in iOS 10.3, implemented in Swift 3. If your app doesn’t support iPad, the icon image source can be 60pt@2x and 60pt@3x (120×120 180×180), and the 20pt 29pt and … Read more
You should be able to do this with Notification and the NotificationManager. However getting a guaranteed way to know when your application is not running is the hard part. You can get the basic functionality of what you are desiring by doing something like: Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.your_app_icon, R.string.name_of_your_app, System.currentTimeMillis()); notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_NO_CLEAR | … Read more
If I’m not mistaken the desktop is just a ListView, and you’ll have to send the LVM_SETITEMPOSITION message to the handle of the desktop. I googled a bit for some c# code and couldn’t find a example, but I did found the following article. Torry: …get/set the positions of desktop icons?. It’s delphi code, but … Read more
@David is correct that the host platform owns the JFrame decorations, but you may be able to leverage the JInternalFrame icons, which typically recapitulate those of the platform. For example, private static final Icon ICON = (Icon) UIManager.get(“InternalFrame.closeIcon”); Other decorative defaults are enumerated here. SSCCE: import java.awt.EventQueue; import java.awt.GridLayout; import javax.swing.BorderFactory; import javax.swing.Icon; import javax.swing.JFrame; … Read more
FULL CSS SOLUTION I have written a CSS print stylesheet solution that should solve 80-90% of this problem occurring for sites that require the icons(glyphicons) from bootstrap to show up when printing without requiring the user to turn on “print background images” in their browser and this solution will work in ALL major browsers(Chrome, Safari, … Read more
Using the Shell32 method of acessing links: String lnkPath = @”C:\Users\PriceR\Desktop\Microsoft Word 2010.lnk”; //— run microsoft word var shl = new Shell32.Shell(); // Move this to class scope lnkPath = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(lnkPath); var dir = shl.NameSpace(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(lnkPath)); var itm = dir.Items().Item(System.IO.Path.GetFileName(lnkPath)); var lnk = (Shell32.ShellLinkObject)itm.GetLink; //lnk.GetIconLocation(out strIcon); String strIcon; lnk.GetIconLocation(out strIcon); Icon awIcon = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(strIcon); this.button1.Text = … Read more