[Qt-interest] Generating application icons with Windows, Qt 4.7.1 and Visual Studio Addin 1.1.7

[Darryl Hunter]

Yup, been through that.  That's how I got it there in the first place...

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From: qt-interest-bounces+darryl.hunter=codersoft.com.au at qt.nokia.com
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Behalf Of Joerg Bornemann
Sent: Monday, 14 February 2011 9:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Generating application icons with Windows, Qt
4.7.1 and Visual Studio Addin 1.1.7

On 13/02/2011 00:58, ext Darryl Hunter wrote:


[...]
> I recently ported my application from building on Windows XP, Qt 
> 4.6.3, to Windows 7, Qt 4.7.1. I noticed recently that the application 
> icon no longer appears in Explorer, or while the application is running.
>
> I tried **many** things, of which I won’t go in to, but I finally 
> decided to compare my vcproj file for the two versions. And there was 
> a very subtle difference.
[...]

I doubt that this difference is the cause for the missing icon. The .qrc
file doesn't contain the application icon you're seeing (or not seeing in
your case) in Windows explorer. Its in a Windows resource file. 
Please have a look at this doc page:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/appicon.html


BR,

Jörg
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