ICO Icons

[CWBillow]

I just installed IrfanView; I may be wrong, but I think that prior to the install, icons for ICO files showed as "themselves" in TC, but now they show as a generic IrfanView icon.

How can I get the "real" icons back for viewing?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

[Clo]

2CWBillow

Hello !

• This is not abnormal, you get in the file-lists the icon of the programme which *.ico is associated with…
- You may change that icon with a more meaningful one from Files >> Associate with… >> Edit Type… etc.
- But indeed, it's just too poor…
- I had that you wish till recently, unfortunately, after a bad handling, I lost the icons “as themselves” in the lists,
and couldn't find out again the trick to recover them…

- Well, let's not despair, we have some Gurus here who certainly have put that trick on the back burner…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[CWBillow]

2CWBillow

Hello !

• This is not abnormal, you get in the file-lists the icon of the programme which *.ico is associated with…
- You may change that icon with a more meaningful one from Files >> Associate with… >> Edit Type… etc.
- But indeed, it's just too poor…
- I had that you wish till recently, unfortunately, after a bad handling, I lost the icons “as themselves” in the lists,
and couldn't find out again the trick to recover them…

- Well, let's not despair, we have some Gurus here who certainly have put that trick on the back burner…

 KR
Claude
Clo

OK, thanks Claude.

Regards,
Chuck Billow

[Sam_Zen]

Finally ! This is an item I'm already wrestling with for a long time. It's the 1st time someone else comes up with this.

I use IV too, and my normal setting is to apply different icons of the IV-set, according to different graphic formats :

Image: http://i15.tinypic.com/4ot3n12.jpg

But every once in a while, this survey was gone. All formats got the basic splashed cat icon of IrfanView.
And I still can't lay my finger on what caused it. So I'm monitoring this closely lately, by having the dir with the
graphic files at the unused side of TC as much as possible, while working.
Of course I could recover the situation by going through the "Associate with… >> Edit Type… " procedure again.

But I noticed an unusual behaviour with the ICO format.
Although it's default associated with IV, the Edit Type dialog didn't show the IV-iconset to choose out.
It was empty. I had to browse again to the IV exe as the source of an icon, to get it straight.

[Clo]

2Sam_Zen

Hello Sam !

• This is not exactly the point here…
- CWBillow and I wish to get¦recover another display, which is that each *.ico in a list of various files displays itself
as the icon at the start of the line it's shown on !

- I had that, and I lost it, unfortunately. It's really nice when you have to choose an icon in a list…

 FR
Claude
Clo

[Sam_Zen]

Well. It's becoming a habit of mine on this forum. Sometimes missing the point completely
This is about the according thumbnail of the file itself on the row I guess.

[Clo]

2Sam_Zen

Yes, it is, for *.ico this is very useful… Dont' worry : “Nobody is perfect !”

 FR
Claude
Clo

[gbo]

- I had that you wish till recently, unfortunately, after a bad handling, I lost the icons “as themselves” in the lists,
and couldn't find out again the trick to recover them…

If I understood you well, it seems to work on my PC see this screenshot

And also try to activate the following radio button:
Configuration->Options->Display->Show symbols left to the filename->All associated +EXE/LNK(slow, 32-Bit only)


HTH

[Clo]

2gbo

Hello Gil!

• Yes, it's that I mean.

• This option is indeed ticked, it's always ticked here…

- I guess that's some hitch in the Registry…
- The setting is the same in the Associate box, with XnView, it worked pretty fine before…

• Maybe our Master at Registry a.k.a. icfu has a clue… ?

 KR
Claude
Clo

[gbo]

Maybe this thread can help - TC won't show XentientThumbs (looks like a quite similar issue)

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=82624#82624

[Lefteous]

It looks like another association bug. The icons are displayed fine here in Windows Explorer. I looked a bit in the Registry and Explorer seems to read the required information from

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon\(Default)

which is referred by

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\(Default)

[ghisler(Author)]

It's not a bug in TC, it is just showing what is set in "DefaultIcon".

Solution
1. Place cursor on .ico file
2. Choose Files - Associate - Edit type - Change icon
3. As icon file, write: "%1"
4. Close all dialogs with OK

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)

It's not a bug in TC, it is just showing what is set in "DefaultIcon".

It does not. The value is %1 here. TC just doesn't seem to read the key.


BTW: Edit type doesn't work here in this case (and many others)

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

• I've indeed the right setting like you show, you can see it on THIS SCREEN SHOT.
- But that no longer works…

• The issue which occured was as following :
- I needed to change the icon for the *.css type. Making that, the selection in the associate box
has sprung to the *.ico line, but I didn't see this immediately…
So, I've set by mistake another icon for *.ico, then all icons in the list got the (wrong) new icon
instead of displaying themselves…
- I attempted to correct that, but unsuccessfully, I could only restore the real icon for *.ico
which is displayed everywhere for all *.ico files…
- In Win Explorer, same mess, only the icon of the *.ico file-type for all icons is shown (and badly blown-up).

 VG
Claude
Clo

[StickyNomad]

2Clo
Hm, I'm not sure if this may help, but here, Icons are displayed as 'themselves', and I don't have an association set in TC, but I associated an icon-Editor in windows.

I didn't re-install my system since a few years, so I'm not completely sure, but I think TC did display icons with a generic symbol before I associated an Icon editor (IconoMaker)...