Different icons for chooks

[Thad]

I'm sure there are more pressing issues to be dealt with, but I was wondering if this was even on the list of things to do.

 

When X was first released, it was decided that it was more important to get the software out than to bother with creating different icons for all the different chooks. It was a simple matter of priority. Now we're at X2 MR1 SP1 and we still have the same icons...and there are still important things that need to be added/fixed. My question is, is creating different icons even on the list?

 

I understand that software development is a never ending task, always wanting to make things better or add new features. Somewhere along the line, even the chickenxxxx stuff needs to be addressed. I've been wanting to add a toolbar with the chooks that we use frequently for quite some time, but a toolbar with 5 identical icons wouldn't be very helpful.

 

Just wondering...

 

Thad

[Colin Gilchrist]

Thad,

 

Takashi has a link to a free program to edit the resource files (the files that have the icon bitmap embedded in them). If you let me know which 5 hooks you are using, I'll make you some buttons for them. I've been meaning to do it anyway for Find Overlap, Whole Spline, and Remove Nodes.

 

Thanks,

[Thad]

Colin,

 

I think I'll take you up on that since you did such a nice job on the View Fit icons a while back.

 

I don't know if there are 5, I just threw out a number in my example. Off the top of my head (along with Find Overlap), how about Coons surface. I'll have to look at the chook list next week to tell you more.

 

Thanks.

 

Thad

[Thee Rickster ™]

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you did such a nice job on the View Fit icons a while back. [Wink]

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I'll second that!

 

I may need help implementing icon changing thou.

 

Green Guy --- out ---

[Thad]

Colin,

 

Also Swept2R.

 

Thad

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

+1 for coons, and Arc MultiEdit.dll, and FindOverlap.dll please.

[Thad]

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Arc MultiEdit.dll

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Good call, Troy. I forgot that one.

 

Thad

[Colin Gilchrist]

Thad,

 

You've got mail.

[Colin Gilchrist]

+NoHist as well

[Thad]

Colin is THE MAN!

 

Thad

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Colin or Thad care to share?

Thanks

[cadcam]

Colin can you post the link to the software by chance?

[Thad]

Jay, Here you go. Resource Hacker

 

Thad

[Thad]

Comin' at ya, Don.

 

Thad

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Thanks Thad and Colin

[Colin Gilchrist]

Thanks for the compliment Thad, but I merely stand on the shoulders of giants.

 

Thank Takashi. Sato-san gave me the link and the the idea of how to do it. I just used Microsoft paint to create the icons.

 

I do like the result though.

 

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

Thank You Colin and Thad... they work great.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

What file has the main collection of icon resources in it? I looked in Mastercam.exe and a few others but they didn't have much.

[Colin Gilchrist]

You have to look in the individual Chook. That is where the icon is embedded. So if you browse to C:/mcamx/Chooks and "open" one of the Chook Dll's, you can then find and "replace" the bitmap icon.

 

HTH,

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

What about the icons for built-in functions? Those have to be somewhere, and I figure they might be a good starting place for making some new ones.

[Thad]

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What about the icons for built-in functions?

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Matt,

 

I'm pretty sure those are not accessible. I think they're embedded in the .exe and you can't access them. We talked about this when X first came out. V9 used to use .res files (resource file). Now that X is more up to date, that info is stored in other files and can't be accessed. That's I recall from the conversation. Try a search. Someone from CNC Software was involved in the conversation.

 

Thad

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Ah, MCCoreRes.dll in the resources folder has the main stash.