changing icons in X

[RandleXX]

Can I access the icons on the toolbars to create my own custom looking buttons ???

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

God I hope not!

(Statement made from the view point of a person who does technical support).

 

Mike Mattera

[Carl Hessig]

That would be nice make you fill a little more at home instead of just visting.

If you can find where they hid the icons you might be able to edit them in paint. It worked for chooks in 8 & 9

[RandleXX]

I searched through the files with no luck.

The icons must be in binary or ?

[John13]

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Note: You cannot select data paths for the following file types, which Mastercam no longer supports: PRM, GEO/GE3, GE3 3.1, GE3 3.21, NFL, Icon (BMP) files, and older versions of Mastercam files.

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found in mastercam help by searching for 'icon bmp',

 

file converter page

[Andy]

That is a bummer. I have 8 custom buttons in 9.

Not cool.

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

All of the bitmap images are built into the code itself. You have freedom on how you want to arrange and organize them, far greater than previous versions, but you can't substitute yours for ours.

 

I don't think i have ever seen a Windows style interface that allowed this, but my eyes haven't been filled with seeing yet either.

[Jeff Kemper]

Ken

 

"All of the bitmap images are built into the code itself."

 

What was the rational behind this decision?

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

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"God I hope not!"

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Come on Mike, you wouldn't like to be able to have a star wars theme?

 

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

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"All of the bitmap images are built into the code itself."

 

What was the rational behind this decision?

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Because that is the way WINDOWS programs are built?

(Text strings and images are compiled into Resource DLLs)

[Thad]

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(Text strings and images are compiled into Resource DLLs)

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Can the resourse dlls be modified? If so, is that frowned upon?

 

Kinda like modifying the old MC9RS.dll to seperate the Regen button in the ops manager, or make the File-Get dialog box longer so longer file names can be seen?

 

Thad

[specv]

You can do this in Autocad, they have a very good icon editing tool, you can change any icon or import .bmp files for one

[JCLM]

You can also do that in Rhino.

[HevyMetl]

You can also do this in Pro.

[Jody]

Can we add icons for the C-Hooks and VBS that we are using? I would like to put a few of the VBS on the toolbar so that I dont have to go into VBS manager change the file name to what I am looking for then click run.

 

Thank you

Jody

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Presently, Icons that are displayed on a toolbar must come from a compiled resource. If you have the tool and the knowledge it would be possible to alter the icons that a CHook displays. Whether this work is really worthwhile...

As for VBS, you can use the ScriptLinker utility (available for download from the Forum FTP site – in the C-hooks folder) to "link" your own Icons to the Script of your choice.

[Stefan Salmen]

Hi RandleX X

 

with this tiny tool called PE-EXPORER it´s possible to change BMP´s icons cursors etc. into a resource DLL

 

www.heaventools.com/download.htm

 

But don´t tell anybody