Ticket #586 (closed Defect: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Alt-tab shows dummy icon for BOINC Manager

Reported by: Nicolas Assigned to: romw
Priority: Trivial Milestone: 6.2
Component: Manager Version: 6.2.4
Keywords: icon patch Cc:

Description (Last modified by Nicolas)

When BOINC Manager window is open, the Alt-tab list shows the default icon for windows, instead of the manager icon.

Alt-tab box

Attachments

alt-tab.png (10.9 kB) - added by Nicolas on 03/29/08 14:49:57.
Alt-tab box
boinc32x32.xpm (9.4 kB) - added by Der Meister on 04/07/08 09:42:02.
32x32 pixel xpm-icon
boincmgr_586.patch (6.6 kB) - added by Der Meister on 04/07/08 09:42:33.
patch fixing this bug

Change History

03/29/08 14:49:57 changed by Nicolas

  • attachment alt-tab.png added.

Alt-tab box

03/29/08 14:50:49 changed by Nicolas

  • description changed.

03/29/08 15:45:08 changed by Ageless

Seeing the same in Windows 2000 SP4, but for that I have a Windows icon, not the 'undefined' icon.

04/07/08 09:42:02 changed by Der Meister

  • attachment boinc32x32.xpm added.

32x32 pixel xpm-icon

04/07/08 09:42:33 changed by Der Meister

  • attachment boincmgr_586.patch added.

patch fixing this bug

04/07/08 09:46:14 changed by Der Meister

The problem is that the icon used for the main window (boinc.xpm) is only 16x16 pixels large. But windows requires a 32x32 pixel version for displaying it in the Alt-tab list. Just replacing the old icon by a 32x32 pixel icon wouldn't work because the icons in the taskbar are only 16x16 pixels and when windows scales the icon from 32x32 pixels down to 16x16 it looks really ugly.

The solution implemented by my path is adding a second icon, which is 32x32 pixels large. The SkinManager? now loads both icons and when the main frame is created it sets both icons as application icons instead of only the 16x16 pixel item. That way windows displays the small icon in the taskbar and the large one in the Alt-tab list.

04/18/08 16:52:32 changed by Nicolas

  • keywords changed from icon to icon patch.

05/21/08 11:08:32 changed by Simek

  • version changed from 5.10.45 to 6.2.4.

Still broken in 6.2.4.

06/14/08 20:45:00 changed by Didactylos

  • milestone changed from Undetermined to 6.2.

06/18/08 22:50:53 changed by Didactylos

I tested this patch, and it works fine for me on XP. Please apply this patch to trunk and the 6.2 branch.

06/23/08 10:58:19 changed by romw

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.
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