Re: [AD] Proposal for a set_icon function

["Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> To do all that mess we could just add a windows only function
> set_window_icon(HICON icon);

Of course we could also add this function (it would be called win_set_icon()
since it is Windows specific) but IMHO it doesn't solve alone the icon
problem.

> the user would only have to create a resource file, compile it to an obj
> (by him/herself, users are not so stupid after all ;) and link it to the
> allegro program that has that function and voila! icon linked in your exe
> and in your window

That's exactly what the user currently does, isn't it ? Using a Windows icon
designer program, creating the resource file, compiling it and linking the
object file. So basically we wouldn't do anything except adding
win_set_icon() (2 lines of code) ?

My proposal simply aims at freeing the user from the Windows specific part
of the process: he could use his Allegro bitmaps to generate the program
icon very easily.

> for other OSes this function could change (and of course be on their own
> OSdependant header), so the user could do

I don't think the functions could share the same name since they wouldn't
have the same prototype.

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Eric Botcazou
ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx