There is an icon that comes with the windows version of povray.  It is
Shapes.ico in the bin directory and looks like a small version of
povray's demo render.  I use it as an icon for pov files.  It this its
intended use?
Brendan

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> There is an icon that comes with the windows version of povray.  It is
> Shapes.ico in the bin directory and looks like a small version of
> povray's demo render.  I use it as an icon for pov files.  It this its
> intended use?

It is a small version of the demo render and it is used in the windows start
menu to... run the demo rendering!!!! I think that's the only thing it is
intended to use for.

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> It is a small version of the demo render and it is used in the windows start
> menu to... run the demo rendering!!!! I think that's the only thing it is
> intended to use for.

I looked there and the icon looks better on the desktop.  It's nice to
have an icon for pov files.  Maybe it would be a good idea to make an
icon specifically for associating with pov files.  Maybe it could use
red, green and blue objects or the sphere on the checkered plane. 
There's such an icon, but it is really a bmp file with a .ico
extension.  Ifranview keeps saying that it's a bmp file with an
incorrect extension and can change it if you are careless with
clicking.  I'll like to find a icon editor or a program that shrinks
pictures to be used as icons.
Brendan

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Andrea Ryan wrote:
> 
> > It is a small version of the demo render and it is used in the windows start
> > menu to... run the demo rendering!!!! I think that's the only thing it is
> > intended to use for.
> 
> I looked there and the icon looks better on the desktop.  It's nice to
> have an icon for pov files.

POV-Ray v3.5 will have a new icon that should please most people.
It is easy to recognize and will be included with the distribution.

Look for it in the next month or two....

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Ken Tyler

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*.ico are effectively small *.bmp

No need to change the extension. Windows likes it that way... Irfanview is
correct, but does not need to change it.

"Andrea Ryan" <ary### [at] global2000net> wrote in message
news:3B789E84.1C6CC5E3@global2000.net...
> > It is a small version of the demo render and it is used in the windows
start
> > menu to... run the demo rendering!!!! I think that's the only thing it
is
> > intended to use for.
>
> I looked there and the icon looks better on the desktop.  It's nice to
> have an icon for pov files.  Maybe it would be a good idea to make an
> icon specifically for associating with pov files.  Maybe it could use
> red, green and blue objects or the sphere on the checkered plane.
> There's such an icon, but it is really a bmp file with a .ico
> extension.  Ifranview keeps saying that it's a bmp file with an
> incorrect extension and can change it if you are careless with
> clicking.  I'll like to find a icon editor or a program that shrinks
> pictures to be used as icons.
> Brendan

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3b78dbb2$1@news.povray.org...
> *.ico are effectively small *.bmp
>
> No need to change the extension. Windows likes it that way... Irfanview is
> correct, but does not need to change it.

No. Windows can render bitmap images as icons, hence the confusion, but .ico
format is quite different from .bmp one. Among other things, it has
transparency and can hold several icons (different formats).

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