save .ico file from icon editor in LabView

[vsaone]

spent half a day today figuring out how to get my icon that was created in LabView's icon editor over to the icon editor in the Application builder.  After much trial and error the only method I found was to select and copy the pixels to the clipboard while in the LabView icon editor, then run the Application builder and open its icon editor and then paste the contents of the clipboard into it.  Some pixels change colors when doing this.  Why doesn't the LabView icon editor allow one to save an icon in the .ico format that the Application icon editor requires?  Seems logical to keep the same icon for your compiled app instead of having to create a new one in the App Builder.  It would be even better if the Application Builder would just automatically load the icon from the startup VI by default, but allow the icon to be changed in Application Builder icon editor if desired. 

[kornyguy06]

Seriously! This is really frustrating! Especially since when I try to that same thing (which worked fine for me in 8.5) in 2013 / 2014, copy from vi icon editor paste to app builder icon editor, it just pastes the defualt labview icon! huh?

[Contract-EE]

I ran into the same frustration. I want to save the icon I generated in the FP or BD Icon Editor as a .ico file so I can access it from Application Builder.  As is, my only SaveAs options are Template or Glyph.

[JÞB]

So, a decade later and still LabVIEW has:

• No means to save a *.ico file with multiple sizes 
• 1 way to launch the ico file editor (only when unchecking a default property of an application build spec ) frankly, it's a tool and should be a tools menu entry.
• A really really obsolete editor with no means to import or add anything you can't draw with a preschool game! ( ACTUALLY,  I'VE SEEN BETTER DRAWING GAMES FOR TODDLERS WHEN MY CHILDREN USED THEM! MY GRANDCHILDREN USE BETTER NOW!

SO When are you going to fix that tool that is so embarrassing that you can't let it out of the attic to play with normal tools?  Will it forever wear a bicycle helmet on the short bus?  What do you design the LabVIEW <file>.icos with?   Why are we unworthy?