Bricscad Icon

Richard Sands

I'd like to change the Bricscad Icon.
The icon is same colour as Bluebeam which I can change colour to Red but that clashes with other applications I have and doesn't make quick identification of files etc. easily.
I tried changing the B'cad icon but it doesn't appear to use the icon in the C:\Program Files\Bricsys\BricsCAD V14 en_US folder.

Is this hard wired into the program.

Thanks

Donald Broussard

if you create a shortcut to the application you can easily change the shortcut icon.

Sorry for the short reply .... on my phone

Richard Sands

Thanks Donald. Unless i'm mistaken that only changes the shotcut icon. Not the one tha globally appears on anything associated with Bricscad.
The dwg files and the program icon on the Task bar etc.
It's that side I want to change.

For egs.
On the task bar alone I have 4 Blue Icons.

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Which icons are used for files is determined by the Windows registry.
The default icons that BricsCAD uses are stored in the executable.

If you want to see different icons you will have to edit the registry.
But make sure you know what you are doing...

Roy Klein Gebbinck

... Oops, my previous post is not the answer you are looking for. It does not change the task bar icons.

Chris Schildmeier

Richard check out this MSDN entry.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh127427%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Richard Sands

Thanks for replies.
Chris that looked a bit complicated from my liking and as Roy said - tread carefully!

I actually got it to work in a fashion - partially ie.

I Right click on the Bricscad Shortcut on the Start Menu and just follow the usual way through Right Click/ Properties and chose icon.
It didn't change the shortcut icon - might when I reboot?, but it did on task bar but not in the Explorer windows which is where I'd like it to.

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