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| author | Debao Zhang <hello@debao.me> | 2013-03-28 10:11:56 +0800 |
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| committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2013-04-02 10:12:35 +0200 |
| commit | ede3e108335e7bd12c6d764e54dba76bb28b4d55 (patch) | |
| tree | 11ae4258f3ca81a6a2d9d71544478e69efbd651b /doc/src/howtos | |
| parent | 988a8dbe978500b4709ea0baea4d6038abc0f1e0 (diff) | |
| download | qtdoc-ede3e108335e7bd12c6d764e54dba76bb28b4d55.tar.gz | |
Doc: Update "Setting the Application Icon on Windows"
Change-Id: I5f0f8396b1af3aa8ce03264f3291a1a7ef85c408
Reviewed-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/howtos')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/howtos/appicon.qdoc | 28 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/howtos/appicon.qdoc b/doc/src/howtos/appicon.qdoc index 310e90c4..540ee5cd 100644 --- a/doc/src/howtos/appicon.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/howtos/appicon.qdoc @@ -53,23 +53,29 @@ the icon editor.) Store the ICO file in your application's source code directory, - for example, with the name \c myappico.ico. Then, create a text - file called, say, \c myapp.rc in which you put a single line of - text: + for example, with the name \c myappico.ico. + + Then, assuming you are using qmake to generate your makefiles, + you only need to add a single line to your \c .pro project file: + + \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_appicon.pro 0 + + Finally, regenerate your makefile and your application. The \c .exe file + will now be represented by your icon in Explorer. + + However, if you already have an \c .rc file, for example, with the name + \c myapp.rc, which you want to reuse, the following two steps will be + required. First, put a single line of text to the \c myapp.rc file: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_appicon.qdoc 0 - Finally, assuming you are using \c qmake to generate your - makefiles, add this line to your \c myapp.pro file: + Then, add this line to your \c myapp.pro file: \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_appicon.pro 1 - Regenerate your makefile and your application. The \c .exe file - will now be represented with your icon in Explorer. - - If you do not use \c qmake, the necessary steps are: first, run - the \c rc program on the \c .rc file, then link your application - with the resulting \c .res file. + If you do not use \c qmake, the necessary steps are: first, create an + \c .rc file and run the \c rc or \c windres program on the \c .rc file, + then link your application with the resulting \c .res file. \section1 Setting the Application Icon on Mac OS X |