Changing the Icon for an Object

The Workplace Shell makes it easy to customize the appearance of the objects the user needs to use. The icon description can be changed by selecting it with "Alt-mouse button 1" or the icon and its text can both be changed from its Settings view.

The "General" page of the objects Settings view gives you two ways to change the icon: Find and Edit. Find lets the user choose a new icon from those already created. Edit starts the icon editor to let you work with the icon; this can be used to modify the existing icon or to work with a different one.

Please note that you must take care to edit the icon belonging to your particular "device"; that is, 32x32 and 16x16 icons for VGA/EGA, 40x40 and 20x20 for higher resolutions. The "Device" pull-down in the menu bar of the icon editor will let you do this.

The Icon Editor is very flexible. A user can:

Paste in a new icon from the clipboard, providing it was placed on the clipboard before the Edit action was started

Use the icon editor menu bar to:

Select "Open..." to choose a new icon
Select "Save as..." to save it under the original filename for the old icon that was first loaded into the icon editor (this is usually x:\OS2\WP!n.ICO, where n is a number).

When you have finished, close the window and respond "yes" to the prompt to save the changes.

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