Icon for program is no longer \"working\"

For a couple of years now, my resource section of my main program has:

proj_icon icon Z:\CMASTERF95\cjd_CMASTER.ico

I have added additional icons AFTER the proj_icon. Now, that association is no longer working, and I am getting my CAUTION icon as the Program main icon.

I have tried adding the proj_icon to the WINAPP statement in the main program, but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

P.S. My complete resource section reads:

	proj_icon	icon	Z:\CMASTERF95\cjd_CMASTER.ico
	win_icon	icon	z:\CMASTERF95\cjd_icon.ico
	cjdbitmap	bitmap	z:\cmasterf95\cjd_color_splash_small.bmp
	redsquare	bitmap	z:\cmasterf95\red16x.bmp
	greensquare	bitmap	z:\cmasterf95\green16check.bmp
	cjdwp		bitmap	'z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\cjd_color_splashbw.bmp'
        litho_seam icon 'Z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\litho_caution.ico'
        litho_coded icon 'Z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\litho_warning.ICO'
	litho_undef icon 'Z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\STRIPE_Y_R.ICO'
        litho_negative icon 'Z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\error2.ICO' !'Z:\\CMASTERF95\\BMP and Icons\\red.ICO'

I don't know why this has happened. I would normally expect the Windows environment to use the first icon in the list (as the 'application' icon) but maybe it has to be the first in lexicographic or numerical order.

Using %mi might make a difference.

I suspect that Windows is using the first icon of something like the correct size and colour depth as the program icon, and applying the same logic everywhere else, like in start menu, taskbar etc.

I've been using icofx3, and for 'Windows icon' it gives me a set of icon sizes and colour depths, not a single icon. Because I've had better things to do I haven't looked into the issue deeply, but it is my experience that if you have a single icon that runs OK as the desktop icon, it probably won't be scaled for the start menu (as just one example), and Windows will pick another icon from the program, which may be something intended for a rather different purpose.

Bill, it's Windows, not you!

Eddie

I created a bogus icon named a00000000, so we'll see if it is lexically choosing the icon from the list of icons.

I use %mi, but that doesn't change the icon as displayed on the taskbar, nor the shortcuts.

Windows is a PITA when it comes to 'refreshing' the desktop randomly and changing the icons on its own. So, Eddie, you are correct!

BTW, I use only single size icons in my resource list. The original reason was that I was too lazy to create special ones, sized differently. But then, I used one with multiple sizes and color depth. It chose, for the %lv, the worst looking on possible for the smaller size. So, I forced the issue. While the icons are 32x32 (typically), the %lv is using a 16x16. 'It' picked the 16 color version. Yuck.

Bill,

Did you ever find a solution?

I have returned to the issue after a long break and still don't know the solution.

Eddie

My solution worked. The a0000000 needed to be the first icon in the list, but it works!