Hi, i’ve made a build on windows but the icon is the default corona icon. i tried to change it doing this:
first, got a 1024x1024 png image.
second, I converted using 2 different online websites (don’t know if the fault is here so i tried 2 different companies) to create a Icon-win32.ico with the 3 resolution required (16x16, 32x32 and 48x48).
third, i put the .ico file in my root directory where main.lua was. created a build, but nothing changed.
What i’m doing wrong?
regards,
Carlos Costa.
is anyone able to change the icon in a windows build? if so how did you do? i’m using windows 10. never had a problem with icons on other builds.
I’ll see what I can find out about this.
thanks Rob, I appreciate.
I just did a test. I used: http://icoconvert.com/
I chose Custom Size ( Multi-size in one icon). I selected the three sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48) downloaded, copied to my project.
I renamed the file to Icon-win32.ico.
I built the app. The Icon of the app running in the doc is my Icon. If I open the folder with the built .exe file and the .exe had my icon. So it works from my test.
Make sure to check first letter to make sure it’s a capital I (eye) and not a lower case L.
Rob
Rob, i did exactly what you did, and used the same website (and another one) but didn’t worked.
I tried again today (with a new corona build) and it did work, with the same image i tried before. so the problem was, corona build or the capital “I” like you said (this time i wrote it myself and not copy paste from corona website. those where the only 2 different things i done from previews tries. Now all looks good, thanks for the help, like always. 
If you paste the text from the Corona build docs page into Excel or Word, it becomes:
Icon–win32.ico
i.e. It has two dashes. So the solution is to type the file name manually rather than paste it from the website.
if i copied and pasted I notice the 2 dashes…i just removed one. and made the build with that. i will make further tests to see why it failed first time with this corona build. i remember now the importances of the name and i deleted the first letter, the “I” and introduced myself the “I” still with no luck.
*edit*
i just tried with a file “Icon-win32.ico” i had before from a failed previews build and put it on this new build and still didn’t work so the corona build was not the problem. i deleted the “I” and put it myself, it still didn’t worked. I then removed the “-” and put another one and it worked. so i guess the “–” from the start that i removed 1 dash was the problem.
thanks all.
Apparently there are four types of dash with different lengths and unicodes - hyphen, minus sign, n-dash and m-dash. When you paste from the website it must be misinterpreting what symbol to use.
The hypen to n-dash conversion shouldn’t be happening. Though if you’re getting two hyphens, then that sounds more like an m-dash. Still I know we are not typing in those code, just an ASCII hyphen. But it’s good to clear the hypens and re-type them.
The other thing to be aware of. Microsoft likes to hide the file extension. You might just see Icon-win32 as the file name as the .ico is hidden. If you change the file name to be Icon-win32.ico to where you can see the .ico and your extensions are hidden you’re actually creating Icon-win32.ico.ico which will also fail.
Rob
We’ve confirmed that that this Unicode dash ‘-’ character was an issue in our HTML file (it’s not a browser issue).
We’ve corrected it and it’s now an ASCII dash ‘-’ character.
Thank you for reporting this issue and sorry about the inconvenience.
is anyone able to change the icon in a windows build? if so how did you do? i’m using windows 10. never had a problem with icons on other builds.
I’ll see what I can find out about this.
thanks Rob, I appreciate.
I just did a test. I used: http://icoconvert.com/
I chose Custom Size ( Multi-size in one icon). I selected the three sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48) downloaded, copied to my project.
I renamed the file to Icon-win32.ico.
I built the app. The Icon of the app running in the doc is my Icon. If I open the folder with the built .exe file and the .exe had my icon. So it works from my test.
Make sure to check first letter to make sure it’s a capital I (eye) and not a lower case L.
Rob
Rob, i did exactly what you did, and used the same website (and another one) but didn’t worked.
I tried again today (with a new corona build) and it did work, with the same image i tried before. so the problem was, corona build or the capital “I” like you said (this time i wrote it myself and not copy paste from corona website. those where the only 2 different things i done from previews tries. Now all looks good, thanks for the help, like always.
If you paste the text from the Corona build docs page into Excel or Word, it becomes:
Icon–win32.ico
i.e. It has two dashes. So the solution is to type the file name manually rather than paste it from the website.
if i copied and pasted I notice the 2 dashes…i just removed one. and made the build with that. i will make further tests to see why it failed first time with this corona build. i remember now the importances of the name and i deleted the first letter, the “I” and introduced myself the “I” still with no luck.
*edit*
i just tried with a file “Icon-win32.ico” i had before from a failed previews build and put it on this new build and still didn’t work so the corona build was not the problem. i deleted the “I” and put it myself, it still didn’t worked. I then removed the “-” and put another one and it worked. so i guess the “–” from the start that i removed 1 dash was the problem.
thanks all.
Apparently there are four types of dash with different lengths and unicodes - hyphen, minus sign, n-dash and m-dash. When you paste from the website it must be misinterpreting what symbol to use.
The hypen to n-dash conversion shouldn’t be happening. Though if you’re getting two hyphens, then that sounds more like an m-dash. Still I know we are not typing in those code, just an ASCII hyphen. But it’s good to clear the hypens and re-type them.
The other thing to be aware of. Microsoft likes to hide the file extension. You might just see Icon-win32 as the file name as the .ico is hidden. If you change the file name to be Icon-win32.ico to where you can see the .ico and your extensions are hidden you’re actually creating Icon-win32.ico.ico which will also fail.
Rob