Re: Icon not shown?

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From: David Lowndes (davidl_at_example.invalid)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:31:48 +0100

>I have a Windows application, the icon shows ok at the development machine,
>but it does not show up on other machine. Sounds to me the resource is
>somehow not built into the executable. Any thought is appriciated.

You can check your idea by loading the EXE file (as a resource) into
Visual Studio and seeing if the resource is there or not.

Dave 

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