[Qt-interest] Unable to use .rc file for application icon.

[william.crocker at analog.com]

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>> 2. Is there any free tool to generated the icons. (the one below is a
>> commercial). 
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> To some extend http://www.gimp.org can help you - it can read/write *.ico files, even with "multi-resolution" (e.g. you can embed 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 etc. versions of your icon into the *.ico file. Not sure whether Gimp also supports different colour resolutions in one *.ico file (1 bit, indexed colour, 8bit ("True Colour")).
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> Then there is http://www.imagemagick.org which is a command-line based tool (as well as a image manipulation library). It can read/write dozens (if not hundred+) file formats. Might be that you can embed multiple image files (e.g. given in PNG format) into one single *.ico file.
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I use Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) to create .png files for use as icons.
Great freeware.

Bill