Hi pixelmaster-ga!
Changing the icon for a document is rather easy. Simply open Windows
Explorer, View menu, Folder Options, File Types tab. Look for HTA
under Extensions. Click Advanced button, then click Change Icon. Now
simply choose a desired icon. Then OK all the way out. The icon
change will be reflected in Windows usually after closing all Explorer
windows and reopening them. If that doesn't work, rebooting will
definitely do it.
As for having the icon display differently on other computers, you'll
have program something to change their icons as well. Otherwise, the
icon displayed will be the default Windows icon unless they have
something installed, in which case it will use the icon used by
whatever program they installed.
Hope this helps,
mrbuzz-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
pixelmaster-ga
on
30 Oct 2002 08:21 PST
Could you clarify this sentence:
"As for having the icon display differently on other computers, you'll
have program something to change their icons as well."
Actually, I'm afraid my question was a bit confusing, I meant to ask
how to chance the icon of a *specific* hta file, not of all hta
documents on my computer. I want the hta document to have a custom
icon instead of the standard windows document icon. On a mac this is
easy, but maybe it's just not possible on windows.
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Clarification of Answer by
mrbuzz-ga
on
30 Oct 2002 08:41 PST
Hi pixelmaster-ga,
I guess I should've clarified further before I answered. I apologize
for that.
For the sentence you've mentioned, what I meant was you would have to
program something to duplicate the results of all the steps I had in
my answer to change the icon for that particular file type. This
program would simply save the user from having to change the icon
manually.
As for changing the icon for a single file rather than the entire file
type, as far as I know, this isn't possible with Windows. Only EXE's,
shortcuts (.LNKs) and folders can have their own icons apart from
other folders.
In your situation, the only way to change the icon is if you create a
shortcut to your current HTA file. Then change the icon on the
shortcut. The fastest way to create a shortcut to itself is drag your
HTA file and while holding down your mouse button, hold Ctrl+Shift
then let go of the button. Then open the properties of the newly
created shortcut and change the icon in the Shortcut tab.
The reason that it's easier to change icons on Macs is that ALL Mac
files have both a data fork and a resource fork. For Windows files,
ONLY some have an embedded resource such as EXEs; all Windows filed
are stored as a single file.
I hope this is acceptable to you as an answer.
Thanks,
mrbuzz-ga
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