QVGA Icon Sizes

[Andreas Selle]

Hi,

I am currently adapting my application for the new QVGA smartphone screen
sizes. When looking at the smartphone builtin applications I wonder which
icon sizes shall be used. It appears to me as if the actual icon sizes have
the rather unconventional dimensions of 22 x 22 pixels for small icons and
44 x 44 pixels for normal icons. Can anybody at Microsoft confirm this. The
available documentation about QVGA support (at leat what I have found) does
not mention anything about icon sizes.

A related topic: In Windows Mobile 5 the applicaton icons displayed in the
programs list obviously can have two states, deselected and selected. Is
there any documentation how to provide these two-state-icons with my
application?

Thanks for help,

Andreas Selle

[riki]

Andreas Selle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently adapting my application for the new QVGA smartphone screen
> sizes. When looking at the smartphone builtin applications I wonder which
> icon sizes shall be used. It appears to me as if the actual icon sizes have
> the rather unconventional dimensions of 22 x 22 pixels for small icons and
> 44 x 44 pixels for normal icons. Can anybody at Microsoft confirm this. The
> available documentation about QVGA support (at leat what I have found) does
> not mention anything about icon sizes.

is it 44x44? i'm using 42x42.

> A related topic: In Windows Mobile 5 the applicaton icons displayed in the
> programs list obviously can have two states, deselected and selected. Is
> there any documentation how to provide these two-state-icons with my
> application?

I brought that issue up in the beta, and never got an answer. my guess
was SHGetFileInfo() with SHGFI_OPENICON or SHGFI_SELECTED, but that
didn't work.

riki

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[riki]

riki wrote:
>> A related topic: In Windows Mobile 5 the applicaton icons displayed in
>> the programs list obviously can have two states, deselected and
>> selected. Is there any documentation how to provide these
>> two-state-icons with my application?
>
>
> I brought that issue up in the beta, and never got an answer. my guess
> was SHGetFileInfo() with SHGFI_OPENICON or SHGFI_SELECTED, but that
> didn't work.

I just asked Microsoft about this, and it turns out you do use
SHGFI_SELECTED.

to add this to your app you need to edit the .lnk file in the start menu:

<pseudo-random number>#<target><target args>?:<file class name>

(it was prevously:
<pseudo-random number>#<target><target args>?<module>,<offset>
)

and add:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<file class name>\SelectIcon
@=<module>,<offset>

riki

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[Andreas Selle]

Thanks for the response.

For now I settled with 44x44 and 22x22 icon sizes which work nicely and are
not scaled by the OS.

Andreas

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[Andreas Selle]

Hi,

thanks again.

I always thought that your <pseudo-random number> actually should be the
length of the string that follows after the hash sign. Also found no good
documentation on that, its only mentioned for building help files.

It looks to me as if Microsoft should update their Windows Mobile 5
documentation...

Andreas

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[Riki]

Andreas Selle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks again.
>
> I always thought that your <pseudo-random number> actually should be the
> length of the string that follows after the hash sign. Also found no good
> documentation on that, its only mentioned for building help files.
>
> It looks to me as if Microsoft should update their Windows Mobile 5
> documentation...

yes, quite a few people think that. perhaps it used to be the case, but
it isn't anymore - i've checked it. if it was it's a buffer overrun
waiting to happen

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[Andreas Selle]

Hi,

I got that working, when creating the lnk manually. But I have no idea how
to create such a link through the .INF installation file. The problem is,
that I cannot specify any extra parameters to the link target in the
CEShortcuts section of the file.

Here an example:

[Shortcuts.Programs]
"My App",0,MyApp.exe?:myappclass,%CE11%

This always produces an error in CabWiz:
Error: Section [Shortcuts.Programs] shortcut "My App.lnk" - there is no
matching target file "MyApp.exe?:myappclass" for the current CPU type

So I am stuck again.

I could just install a manually create .lnk file, but them, this won't have
the correct application paths.

Does anybody have an idea?

Andreas

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[riki]

Andreas Selle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got that working, when creating the lnk manually. But I have no idea how
> to create such a link through the .INF installation file. The problem is,
> that I cannot specify any extra parameters to the link target in the
> CEShortcuts section of the file.
>
> Here an example:
>
> [Shortcuts.Programs]
> "My App",0,MyApp.exe?:myappclass,%CE11%
>
> This always produces an error in CabWiz:
> Error: Section [Shortcuts.Programs] shortcut "My App.lnk" - there is no
> matching target file "MyApp.exe?:myappclass" for the current CPU type
>
> So I am stuck again.
>
> I could just install a manually create .lnk file, but them, this won't have
> the correct application paths.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?

Your other option is to create a setup.dll. there is an example in the SDK

riki

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