Windows icon SOLVED: congrats :-)

Klaus Major k_major at os.surf2000.de
Thu Mar 20 09:48:00 EST 2003


Hi Shari:

> My fella wouldn't let me give up last night, and he on the Windows 
> computer and me on the Mac,
> spent hours trying to solve this.  He found an icon Metacard liked, I 
> opened it with GraphicConvertor,
> and did nothing except change the colors.  There were 6 colors, and I 
> simply changed black to green
> and grey to red, etc.  Even that failed.  The file size went from 766 
> bytes to 1022 bytes.

> ...
> It was not enough to create a 32x32 pixel image.
> It was not enough to limit it to 16 colors.

Please be aware that these 16 colors have to be specific colors!
(Not just 16 different colors, that would be too easy...)

They are the first 16 entries in the win system palette...

Unfortunately these are the most ugly colors of that palette ;-)


Regards

Klaus Major
k_major at os.surf2000.de




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