Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

["Earle F. Philhower III" <earle at ziplabel dot com>]

At 01:14 AM 3/12/2004 -0500, Harold wrote:
> Yes, some neat things are happening.  A little birdy told me that OpenGL 
> acceleration is almost there...

glDoom, here I come!  As long as XWin keeps running runs w/o crashes for 
longer than the interval between Windows patches, I'm a happy camper...

> > At 04:33 PM 3/11/2004 -0500, Earle wrote:
> > ...a patch to the parser lexx/yacc to add a "TrayIcon xxxx" line and add
> > the usual support for "iconfile.dll,n" where n=icon ID (ie. "shell32.dll,5"
> > gives the floppy drive icon)...
> Yes, that sounds good.  Let me just double-check that the TrayIcon feature 
> *would* allow you to select the second icon within XWin.exe, right?  That 
> is okay that the icon for other applications could not index into 
> XWin.exe, as long as XWin.exe can specify icons within itself.

Yup, that would be the plan:  If no .XWinrc file or no TrayIcon, run with 
the present default settings (I guess whatever ICON 0 is compiled into XWin 
is what you'll get).  Anywhere an icon is specified in the .xwinrc file, do 
the following:
. If the iconame is just ",#" then load the specified icon number from the 
XWin.exe resources
. else if the iconame is "<filename.exe/.dll>,nn" then load icon ID nn from 
that file
. else use present load .ico flow
. If we're unsuccessful in loading the icon, use the default X icon from 
XWin.exe

I also keep meaning to write a man page for the .xwinrc format, but since I 
don't follow main cygwin app development I'm not sure if manpages are the 
"preferred" format or if everyone is doing GNU Info files or something 
else.  It's probably in one of TFM that I've not R yet. ;)

-Earle F. Philhower, III
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