QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
| Title |
Creating a PtIcon without using the application builder |
| Ref. No. |
QNX.000009724 |
| Category(ies) |
Development |
| Issue |
The PtIcon widget can be used to display an program icon on the photon desktop manager and the task bar. Is there a way to use PtIcon without the application builder, e.g. create the widget directly from code?
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| Solution |
The PDM icon must be a PhAB icon. There's no way for PDM to find out that you're creating an icon from code -- PDM does not run your code. PDM just reads the executable and looks for a PhAB-style icon in it.
To put a PDM icon in a non-PhAB application, just create a dummy PhAB app and then use the "bindres" utility to add the icon module to your non-PhAB executable. No code required.
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