how to change icon of exe file

Question

hi,
     how can i change the icon of exe file setup.exe generated by installlshield using C++

i want to pick th icon from *.ico file and want to update the setup.exe file generated by installshield

Answer 1

simply change the icon of IDR_MAINFRAME .That's all you have to do.

 

Thanx

 

Answer 2

would you please describe it in detail actually i am new to this field so please help me how to change that
it would be appriciated if you will provide the code snippet to me
Thanks

Answer 3

Well, you need to goto resource view in VC++ editor, then find the current ICON (should be named IDR_MAINFRAME in case of MFC project) and either paste the ICON picture into it Or add new icon and name it IDR_MAINFRAME (ofcourse you will need to rename old IDR_MAINFRAME first).

Answer 4

Hi,
       mu dear my problem is different i want to change the icon programatically bcoz this setup.exe is going to be generated at run time so i want to write some  code snippet which wil take exe file path and icon file path as parameter and will change the icon

Answer 5

You will need to update the ICON resource into that executable using resource APIs such as FindResource, BeginUpdateResource, UpdateResource, , following link to a sample on MSDN will help,

 

Using Resources