Switch application icon at runtime?
lazarus / 10-Designer

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starbuck999 · 2007-10-16 01:39

I'm looking for a way to switch the application's icon 'on the fly'.
 The user has a starting screen in which they have to select a
language, then the icon corresponding to their language is then loaded
as the application's icon.

I did it in Delphi7 like this: 

Code: [Select]Application.Icon.LoadfromFile('orp.ico')

However, in Lazarus this causes an 'External: SIGSEGV' exeception.  I
looked through the forums and only saw references to resource files
and something about the icon's handle that looked promising, but the
poster didn't explain how to load from file.

Is what I want to do possible in Lazarus?  and does anyone know how?

Thanks,

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antonio · 2007-10-16 02:35

You could make a feature request on bugtracker.

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Vincent Snijders · 2007-10-16 05:22

AFAIK, this is not yet possible. It is planned for Lazarus 0.9.26.
There are already several bug reports about it.

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starbuck999 · 2007-10-19 04:56

Thanks everyone.  I guess I'll go without.