NetBeans icon in the IDE vs the one in RCP applications

[Sergio Lopes-3]

This is not really related to NetBeans, but it's something that's been
anoying me for some time now, and, as it's on NetBeans, here's my
question.
Why is the NetBeans icon on the main window of the IDE look so nice,
transparent background working fine, and on my RCP application it has
an ugly gray area around it? Isn't it the same file?

The problem is that every image I set as my application's icon gets
the same gray area around it, it makes me remember PNG files with
transparency on IE :(

Does anyone know a way to solve this? Or at least why is this happening?

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[Platonov R.V.]

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[Eduardo Maurício da Costa]

Sérgio,

This icon is the same that exists in netbeans.exe file, and follows Windows
rules when running on Windows.

I suppose the icon used by our NB applications is a 32x32x256 icon and NB
IDE icon is RGBA "multisize" (32x32+16x16). Windows icons with 256 colors
have only one degree of transparency - that's why the ugly white border
appears.

You may change your application executable icon to an RGBA icon. Take a look
at this:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqExecutableIcon

Regards,
Eduardo

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Sergio Lopes [mailto:knitter.is@...]
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 14 de julho de 2008 23:45
Para: dev@...
Assunto: [openide-dev] NetBeans icon in the IDE vs the one in RCP
applications

This is not really related to NetBeans, but it's something that's been
anoying me for some time now, and, as it's on NetBeans, here's my
question.
Why is the NetBeans icon on the main window of the IDE look so nice,
transparent background working fine, and on my RCP application it has
an ugly gray area around it? Isn't it the same file?

The problem is that every image I set as my application's icon gets
the same gray area around it, it makes me remember PNG files with
transparency on IE :(

Does anyone know a way to solve this? Or at least why is this happening?

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[Sergio Lopes-3]

> It's NetBeans Branding editor corrupts your icon...
Maybe, but it happens on every icon that I set for the main frame and
all dialogs, isn't it something related to Java and the format of the
image?
I have tried with GIF and PNG file, the result is the same.

> This icon is the same that exists in netbeans.exe file, and follows Windows
> rules when running on Windows.
That's the next step, right now, the image that I' trying to setup it
the one used in the left top corner of the main window and all JDialog
instances.

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[bruehlicke]

We had this discussion back in Mar 7  see below part of the discussion.

Platonov is right, it gets corrupted every time.  Tony Kohar gave the answer to modify your build.xml to simply replace the file(s) at every build.

I will try to look through the bug database and see if this is a recorded bug and else create one.

Thanx
B-)


Hi,

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 5:51 AM, David Beer <david.m.beer@...> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  Thanks for your suggestion placing three different gif files in
>  <mysuite>/branding/core/core/jar/org/netbeans/core/startup/ works. So I
>  have frame.gif = 16x16 frame32.gif = 32x32 and a frame48.gif = 48x48.
>
>  Does anyone know why it looses its transparency.
>

From my experience the update of the icon is occurred when you editing
the project properties using the GUI. And why it is losing the
transparency is (my opinion, I haven't check the source code) netbeans
conversion Image algorithm from something.jpg,gif,png to gif file
somewhat loosing the transparency.

As usually this can be workarounded by override the build ant script.
This is the my workaround:
- put your good copy (have transparency) in the root dir of the suite
(or any place)
- override the build scrip of Netbeans Platform, so everytime it build
(not compile) it will copy the good image to replace the old

<!-- override to add my branding eg: replace frame icon -->
<target name="build" depends="build-brand,suite.

build"/>

<target name="build-brand" depends="-init">
      <!-- do your own other branding as needed -->
      ....

      <!-- this is the copy part to replace bad image to good image -->
       <copy todir="${basedir}/branding/core/core.jar/org/netbeans/core/startup/"
overwrite="true">
           <fileset dir="${basedir}">
               <include name="frame.gif"/>
               <include name="frame32.gif"/>
               <include name="frame48.gif"/>
           </fileset>
       </copy>
</target>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Sergio Lopes <[e-mail]> wrote:

> It's NetBeans Branding editor corrupts your icon...

Maybe, but it happens on every icon that I set for the main frame and
all dialogs, isn't it something related to Java and the format of the
image?
I have tried with GIF and PNG file, the result is the same.

> This icon is the same that exists in netbeans.exe file, and follows Windows
> rules when running on Windows.

That's the next step, right now, the image that I' trying to setup it
the one used in the left top corner of the main window and all JDialog
instances.

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[Sergio Lopes-3]

I searched for any info on this problem but failed to find any, thanks
for the answer, if this has been discussed before I'll look for it in
the archives.

I have no problems with overriding the build.xml, it's one less
problem to worry, though not that big of a problem, but still, an
annoying one.

Thanks.

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[bruehlicke]

Could not find this problem in the bug database I created

http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=140104

Vote for it

B-)

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Sergio Lopes <[e-mail]> wrote:

I searched for any info on this problem but failed to find any, thanks
for the answer, if this has been discussed before I'll look for it in
the archives.

I have no problems with overriding the build.xml, it's one less
problem to worry, though not that big of a problem, but still, an
annoying one.

Thanks.

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[Sergio Lopes-3]

> Could not find this problem in the bug database I created
>
> http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=140104
>
> Vote for it

Done.

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