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Eldmannen
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For win32 release

Post by Eldmannen »

Put the wesnoth.ico in the wesnoth.exe so that the .exe has an icon.

When right click on wesnoth.exe and click on properties add a "Version" tab.

File Version: 0.9.2
Description: Wesnoth
Copyright: 2005. Wesnoth Team (GNU GPL)

Company: Wesnoth Team
File Version: 0.9.2
Internal Name: Wesnoth
Language: English
Orginal File name: wesnoth.exe
Product Name: Battle of Wesnoth
Product Version: 0.9.2
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Post by freecraft »

What is the use of that?
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Post by aelius »

Eldmannen, you seem to be full of ideas. Being full of ideas is neither necessarily good nor bad (though, it's often more bad than good.) Telling other people what to do is almost always bad, and that's how the tone of many of your posts reads.

If, instead of telling people what to do, you take it upon yourself to do some of it, people tend to be much more receptive to your ideas.

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Eldmannen
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Post by Eldmannen »

freecraft,
It makes it easier find the game icon to click on for opening the game, it makes it easier to determine which version of the program you are using without starting up the game. And it provides some basic information and also gives it a more complete and professional look.

aelius,
Yes, I often have many ideas.
I dont meant to demand anything, I merely mean to say what I think would be good if it would be added, and recommends to add it or something. ;)
Also, I dont know if its possible for me todo that, but maybe it is.
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Post by Dave »

I think both of these are good ideas, but I don't know how to do either of them. If you would be kind enough to let me know, I'll look into it.

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Post by Matt »

For the icon, I think the only thing you have to do is to include the .ico file in the resource file in the VS.NEt project.
Eldmannen
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Post by Eldmannen »

Well, it depends on what IDE (Integrated Developement Environment) you use.
But it is very easy todo so.

Do you use Dev-C++ or MS Visual C++ or any other?

In Dev-C++ you either go on the menu "Project" then click on "Project Options" or you can click on the orange icon in the toolbar or you can use the Alt+P key shortcut.

Then a dialog appears, in the "General" you click on "Browse" to change the icon. If you click on the "Version Info" tab you can change the information.

I dont have MS Visual C++ so I cant tell you how todo it there, but its very easy and pretty similiar.
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