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An icon is a small pictogram used in graphical user interfaces to supplement the presentation of textual information to the user.

Icons may represent a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system. In modern usage today, the icon can represent anything that the users want it to: any macro command or process, mood-signaling, or any other indicator.

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ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers - why so few?

At this point, everyone knows that there's a limit to the number of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers (from MSDN): The number of different icon overlay handlers that the system can support is limited by the amount of space available for icon overlays in…
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What does the ic_launcher-web.png in my project root do?

Unbelievably enough, I couldn't find an answer when Googling for this very basic question! I noticed that since I upgraded from Eclipse Helios to Eclipse Juno and updated the Android SDK, Eclipse places a file called ic_launcher-web.png in the…
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What does the brown asterisk icon on a file mean in Eclipse?

I am using the git plugin for Eclipse. Some of my files are marked with a brown asterisk. What does it mean? Where can I find documentation for what the rest of the git icons mean in Eclipse?
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Does .NET have icon collections?

Does .NET framework have a collection of icons for use in Windows Forms or WPF application somewhere? How does one use it? For example, how do I use it as an application window icon? I recall, if you want to display a message box there is a choice…
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Pyinstaller setting icons don't change

When I use the command: pyinstaller.exe --icon=test.ico -F --noconsole test.py All icons do not change to test.ico. Some icons remain as the pyinstaller's default icon. Why? All icon change in windows 7 32bit windows 7 64bit (make an exe file…
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How do I use an icon that is a resource in WPF?

I have a .ico file that is embedded as a resource (build action set to resource). I am trying to create a NotifyIcon. How can I reference my icon? notifyIcon = new NotifyIcon(); notifyIcon.Icon = ?? // my icon file is called MyIcon.ico and is…
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How do I get my page title to have an icon?

I would like to have my site’s logo shown in the icon area of the title rather than the default white document. Exactly as Stack Overflow has it.
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Change icons of checked and unchecked for Checkbox for Android

Instead of having a check mark for the icon, I want a custom star (I have checked and unchecked icons). Can this be done through a property? Or must I declare a custom widget that derives from Checkbox?
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Is there a good flag icon pack that corresponds to ISO-3166 Country Codes?

I'm in need of an icon pack containing flags that correspond with ISO-3166 country codes such as US, CA, SE, DE etc. Optimally the flag icons would have names such as us.png, ca.png and so on. I'm guessing this is a common developer necessity making…
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Google Chrome Extension Numbers on the Icon

I've been experimenting with a Chrome Extension, and I want to make one similar to my Google Voice Extension where the icon shows a little blue "1" next to the icon when I receive an event, Is this a whole separate icon? and then they just use the…
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vuetify icon not showing

I am using vue.js and vuetify. I want to add an icon but it is not working as expected (not rendered). How can I fix this? Please refer to the following code: main.js import Vue from 'vue' import Vuetify from "vuetify"; import…
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How do I change the default application icon in Java?

I'm using NetBeans, trying to change the familiar Java coffee cup icon to a png file that I have saved in a resources directory in the jar file. I've found many different web pages that claim they have a solution, but so far none of them…
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Action Bar icon size

According to Action Bar Icons action bar icon for the mdpi screen should be 24 x 24 px but the icons in Action Bar Icon Pack for mdpi are 32 x 32 px. The sizes do not match for other screen sizes neither. So which one is correct and what dimensions…
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How do you get the icons out of shell32.dll?

I'd like to get the Tree icon to use for a homegrown app. Does anyone know how to extract the images out as .icon files? I'd like both the 16x16 and 32x32, or I'd just do a screen capture.
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Add tooltip to font awesome icon

Has anyone here added tooltips to font-awesome icons? I have the following jsfiddle, but cannot seem to find a guide to add tooltips to the icons.
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