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- From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Using OS/2 Icons (Re: OS/2 Icons)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.110445.935@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 19:04:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov11.110445.935
- References: <1992Nov10.154707.26088@spock.UUCP> <1992Nov10.180028.3235@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
- Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA
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- In article <1992Nov10.180028.3235@leland.Stanford.EDU>, wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov10.154707.26088@spock.UUCP> kurgan@spock.uucp (Andrew Twyman) writes:
- >> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to access the built in OS/2
- >>icons for use on programs? Also, how can one transfer Windows .ICO files
- >>to OS/2? Thank's in advance.
- >
- > I had to open the settings on the OS/2 object, "edit" the icon, and save
- > it as a file. Then you can use the icon for any object you want, although
- > it's a royal pain to select an icon. (Open Settings, General, Find, Locate,
- > Path, OK, Find, OK.) OS/2 is going to wear out my mouse!
- >
- > Is there a better way? I wish I could skip the step of having to save the
- > icon in a file, and just use the icon of another object.
-
- What would be really nice is some kind of drag and drop feature, similar to
- changing fonts by dragging the font onto the object. Sure would be great to
- select and Icon and then drop it on the object you wish to change.
-
- Ken
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