[spambayes-dev] pop3proxy_tray icons

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Wed Dec 17 01:45:41 EST 2003


Better late than never :)

> I don't know if anyone else has noticed this or not, but on my Windows
> 2000 system the green and red circles in the current pop3proxy_tray
> icons are very difficult to make out.  I created the attached 
> icons as a
> possible alternative.  They are basic 16-color icons and show up quite
> nicely on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

I agree.

> The attached patch is also required because the LoadImage 
> calls pass 0,0
> for the icon size.  That loads the icon using the default 32x32 size,
> scaling a 16x16 icon up to 32x32 if necessary.  Since icons 
> in the tray
> are only 16x16, they then get scaled back down when displayed 
> and still
> end up looking bad.

Excellent!

> I also attached an alternate sbicon that I created in the 
> spirit of the
> icons in the Web UI.  It uses the envelope icon from the 
> Wingdings font
> with the same blue outline color used in the UI icons.  I modified my
> py2exe\setup_all.py to use this as the icon for all the 
> generated exe's.

I haven't done that :)

I've checked it all in.

Thanks,

Mark.




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