[izpack-users] Shortcut icons 'locked' on Windows?

[Marc Eppelmann]

Hi Rainer, 

Yeah. Thats what I would just suggest at first. 

Why Windows is so stupid, how knows....

Cheers
Marc


Am Friday 29 June 2007 schrieb Rainer Schwarze:
> Hello,
>
> its unbelievable:
> When I change the name of one of the icon files, it works.
>
> Its even more weird:
>
> As long as the second icon file has the same name as the first file,
> Windows always takes the icon from the first file no matter where the
> second icon file is stored in the directory hierarchy.
>
> (Lets say, I have project1/prj1.ico and project2/prj2.ico. Then I copy
> the file project2/prj2.ico to project2/prj1.ico (note that its still in
> project2-directory).
> When I change the icon of a shortcut to "project2/prj1.ico" it always
> takes the icon from "project1/prj1.ico". Then I copied project2/prj1.ico
> to the root directory (d:\prj1.ico). When I try to change a shortcut
> icon to that ico-file, it is not used, but the icon from project1.)
>
> Can things be that bad, or are all my Windows machines messed up?
>
> I never would have expected, that I have to choose totally different
> icon filenames even in totally different directories...
> If no other solution exists, I'll let the ant script append project name
> and the release version string to my icon filenames :-(
>
> best wishes,
> Rainer