From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Date:	Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:11:05 GMT
Subject:	Icon Master funny
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)

  I am very sorry to bring up another non-Gnu query (unless I anticipate a
time when Gnu C programs will be callable from Windows, and thus I will need
Windows icons for them), but:-
  I have Windows for Workgroups and DOS 6.2. I have Icon Master. A few months
ago, when I got Icon Master and practised with it a bit, it behaved correctly.
But I tried to use it now, and, when I try to drag an icon from an Icon Master
icon window to a Windows window, to install the icon into Windows:-
  = A few times it put the icon in the wrong place.
  = The rest of the times Icon Master showed its `Install' window, then an
`Error' window saying "Program Manager or Norton Desktop Failed to respond
properly!", and then started Windows's ordinary sequence for selecting an icon
from Windows's standard dictionary of icons.
  What is likely to be wrong? Does Icon Master clash with Novell Net software?
Or with Windows for Workgroups? Or with particular combinations of other
software such as Sound Blaster or DOS-loaded-high or anything loaded high?
  I tried to contact Icon Master's European agent mentioned in one of Icon
Master's info files, and I found that the agent had closed down and Icon
Master is now unsupported and the man who wrote it died 2 years ago.
  Can anyone recommend a good and still supported replacement for it? I can
still use my Icon Master to produce *.ICO files; what I need is a reliable
safe way to get the icon from the *.ICO file into the correct place in the
correct window in Windows. I can't find anything in Simtel's index or in the
English software archive PDSOFT's index.
  Will Windows 95 have a way of taking in an icon from an *.ICO file?

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