Change the icon of a single front panel window

[TCPlomp]

For a good looking GUI, it might be nessecary to have multiple window icons in one applicatino, for this purpose I have created a tool-vi that uses the windows API with the WM_SetIcon message and the LoadImage method to change the icon of a single VI front panel window:

With this VI you can change the icon of a single front panel window, here's alittle video showing this feature

Hope you enjoy this little tool, if you have the possibility to test/alter the VI for Windows 64-bit, Mac or Linux, please post your updates!

EDIT: There was a small bug in the program that caused it to work for only one VI at a time, now it works for multiple VIs, you can set and reset at any moment you want, the tool should remember what the original icon should be. It is not advised to multiple times use a set and then use a reset.

To use this tool you'll need to have the OpenG Application Control toolkit installed.

[JeffreyH]

Cool!

Tested it on LV2009SP1 x64 development environment under Windows 7 and works like a charm.

I guess you should make the VI reentrant (pre-allocate clone) though, so you can actually use it for setting and resetting the correct icon for multiple windows within your app.

[TCPlomp]

Jeffrey,

there was a minor bug, I've updated the VI and I can manage multiple VIs

[JeffreyH]

Ah yes, I see.. I actually overlooked you doing the lookup thing. No need for reentrancy.

You could get rid of the while loop though.

[Joju]

Hi Jeffrey;

I try to use your vi, but I don't have the Built Error Cluster_ogtk.vi, Current VIs Parents Ref_ogtk.vi, I'm using Labview 2011 W7 64, you can send my these?

[Matthew_Kelton]

Joju,

These VIs are part of OpenG.  You can get them for free through the VI Package Manager.

[Joju]

Thanks; Jeffrey and MatthewKelton, I installed the OpenG, and work perfectly

[vincent.chen.taiwan]

Hi, could you please this vi in version 8.5 ? Many thanks

Vincent

[TCPlomp]

I added a version for LV 8.0

[vincent.chen.taiwan]

Thanks a lot for the 8.0 version.

[pretech]

This works great on LV 11 running Win 7.