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Bob8552
Bob8552

Reputation: 23

Is there any way I can give my app an icon?

I am using Visual Studio and C++ to create a console app. I want the exe file to have a custom icon instead of the default windows icon.

Icon

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2021

Answers (2)

Barrnet Chou
Barrnet Chou

Reputation: 1923

You could right click your project and select add->resource->Icon->import, then you could import your icon. Because the Windows shell - normally Explorer - will use the icon with lowest ID or name as the default icon. So, you could check if the ID of the icon is the lowest. If not, you could change it.

Also, you could refer to this link .

Upvotes: 0

dewaffled
dewaffled

Reputation: 2973

You need to create .rc file (e.g. application.rc) and add it to the Visual Studio project:

IDI_APPLICATION    ICON    "application.ico"

with the relative path to the .ico file (just the file name if the icon file is in the same directory with .rc file, or use forward slash in path if it is in a subdirectory, e.g. "resources/application.ico").

Upvotes: 2

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