alexanrs Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 (edited) Hi, I'm here to present a nice little project I developed with the guys at winprj.net It is Daedalus, a project was meant to introduce 32-bit Alpha-Blended icons support in Windows NT 4, and later expanded to work on Windows 2000 too. It is implemented as a service, therefore can be started/stopped on demand, which can be useful in case some conflict arises, though ideally that should never happen Instructions, the changelog and the download can be found at the winprj.net's topic right here:http://www.winprj.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=399Screenshot (combined with NT4 Visual Update 3 Beta 2): Edited February 1, 2009 by alexanrs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Pretty neat. And it's in Delphi! Woohoo! One little nitpick: you have to use -d to uninstall, not -u. Some icons also come up blank when I run it, unfortunately. That said, even though I don't have MadCHook, I'm tempted to integrate it with SmoothText and try to fix the issues in it since SmoothText also overrides API calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanrs Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Windows 2000, right? And what icons, from ICO files or EXEs and DLLs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 The problem icons are all in the system tray:- Sage TV 5- Norton Internet Security 2002- Palm Hotsync Manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexanrs Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 I'll try to look into it, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackwingcat Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Hi, it works well. But it has some problems.1. It prevents from load 16 colors icon.2. Can't display 32bit icons example Edited February 23, 2009 by win2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marxo Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Can't display 32bit icons exampleI don't wish to be rude, but you should read the official thread on WPC where it says that it can't sometimes load 32-bit icons from pure .ico file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 (edited) Wold this help?IconViewer 1.4I originally wrote it to remove the alpha-blending from icons so they wouldn't have the black halos on Win2k, but perhaps you could use the part that loads the icon files. Edited February 27, 2009 by WildBill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) Does Daedalus suffer from the same drawbacks as Tihiy's RPL2K.DLL?Such as reverting to 16 colour icons when: - Active Desktop is on - NetMeeting's Remote Desktop is on - Places Bar on certain file open/save dialogs.EDIT:It apparently will not freak out when Active Desktop is on.It does cause floating point errors in many programs. - A bit of weird behavior that was remedied by a re-install.Same red tinged alphas while dragging icons.Alt+Tab is also not 32bit.It seems like 98 is now better than 2000 at 32-bit icons. Edited April 6, 2009 by Colonel O'Neill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Major bug:When the Daedalus Service is Started (services.msc) MS Word 2003 will crash and ask to recover my work and restart word. This will happen no matter what. Sometimes it will open to a new blank window, and further interaction with it causes the error. This is fixed by Stopping the Daedalus service from Services.msc.Anyone else having the same problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 File cannot be downloaded:"You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marxo Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 You can't download if you are not registered, same as all other boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Ahh, used bugmenot the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob2000 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 (edited) Daedalus is great !The only bug I have found is that IconTweaker will not start (or run properly) if the Deadalus service is running.So when I want to use IconTweaker, I must stop the service first, make the icon changes, and then re-start the service (and sometimes the shell icon cache needs to be cleared).This happens on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server.Apologies if this problem has already been reported: seeing as IconTweaker is what many use to update their system icons, I though I'd mention this issue. Edited April 25, 2009 by bob2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 It appears to do the same thing to Office 2003 applications... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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