System tray icons

[Tilda]

Hey, i'm not sure if its possible, but can one edit a jpg or bmp file in order to change the appearance of a program in the system tray, or does it involve lots of registry editing or something?

Tilda

 

[JingleBells]

Resource Hacker might do the trick, although i tried (and failed) to alter an exe's icon before, so backup before tinkering.

 

[Tilda]

Rawr, that rocks
Disguised remote server on dads PC as norton antivirus

Cheers Jingle

 

[Clown]

Ahh, I might try and use this to change the Winamp systray icon. It seems very low res and, basically, crap.

 

[JingleBells]

There are about 13 different images to choose from clown, to change one press "Ctrl-P" in winamp, select general preferences, and there is a slider labelled "System tray icon" with the different choices.

 

[Clown]

They're all the same, as in like 16bit colours, blocky etc. etc.

 

[Mazling]

There is the thing about windows only actually displaying 256 colours or something stupid, rather than 16/32 bit.

 

[Clown]

Ahh... Well some of the other icons look nicer than the Winamp ones. I need to get it as good as them

 

[Danya]

System tray icons only display in 16 colours, regardless of what they're mean to be, so if you use a 256 colour icon for the tray it'll look wank.

 

[Clown]

Fuck it then, I won't bother trying to make one look nice. I'll just keep my eyes closed or something.

 

[TheJkWhoSaysNi]

run at a higher resolution. You wont be able to see it as well