LabWindows/CVI
associate several icons with one executable
yc,
Perhaps we are not using consistent terminology. You say that you want to "associate several icons to my application executable". I take it you mean that you want to associate (in a Windows sense) several file types to your app, and you want to associate several different icons (again, in a Windows sense) to those file types, and you want all those icons embedded in your .exe.
You are correct that "In labwindows CVI, we can only associate" [i.e. embed] "one icon to the executable file" but you say that "the only way to specify an icon is to specify an exe file and an index ". Not quite true: I think that you will find that the use of ".ico" files (rather than your .exe file) to specify a different icon, as mentioned near the end of that thread will work -- albeit not all nicely embedded in your .exe. (Use of .ico files is also mentioned here: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&message.id=3116)
Hopefully this will give you a usable solution.
To use a non-zero index with your CVI-built app is not possible, because as you correctly state, you can't embed more than one icon in your exe with CVI. There was a thread topic some time ago, but I can't find it. Perhaps someone else can help us with that link.
If you were hoping for a third party tool to add icons to your CVI-built .exe, we'll both be happy if someone can point us to it!
As an aside, I feel compelled to point out that giving a "mid-range" star rating to an answer tends to almost always drag down a person's credibility score in this forum. Some people think of one star as "bad", while others see one or more stars as always positive - hence the weird situation where for many people an unrated message is more valuable than getting 4 stars! It shouldn't matter, I know ..... I'll take it elsewhere.
Good luck!
--Ian
