Windows question

[J. Landman Gay]

Lars Brehmer wrote:
> What would cause a standalone made with Rev to not show up in the open 
> applications alt+tab window and not collapse to the task bar?

Generally, any stack that is not a top-level stack (palettes, modeless, 
etc) will act like that.

> 
> ... a little bit later...
> 
> Ok, I have been fooling around and tried something for the first time, 
> namely create the Windows standalone on my Windows test machine.  I 
> never did this before because it has always worked fine on the Mac and I 
> am an idiot with Windows.  Here is what happened - the standalone was 
> created just fine, and it collapses properly to the task bar AND it 
> shows up in the alt+tab open applications list.

That shouldn't happen. I mean, the behavior you describe should happen, 
but it should happen when you build with a Mac too. Did you change the 
stack's mode before you built it on Windows?

> But if i need 
> to do the standalones in Windows, so be it - but how do I get the icons 
> to work?

You shouldn't have to build on Windows, it's very odd. If it's 
reproducible, I hope you'll put it into the bug database. I haven't 
tried a Windows standalone in 2.8, but it was working fine in 2.7.x. So 
if it's broken, it's a new bug and now would be a good time to report it.

For the icons, did you try using a Windows icon editor to save them? I 
usually make my .ico files in Windows. I haven't ever had much luck 
making them on a Mac (there are commercial utilities that are supposed 
to work, but there are so many free Windows editors that I've never 
purchased a Mac one.)

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