Donna,

Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling IconDeveloper yet?

If not, you might try uninstalling > rebooting > go into "Start\Run\type: regedit" and delete the IconDeveloper key (folder in left pane) if they exist, from the following keys (folders in left pane):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\ObjectDesktop

Make sure there is no leftover IconDeveloper folder in "C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop" folder, and then reinstall IconDeveloper.

This will reset IconDeveloper as a clean install.

Sorry, forgot to say "hit Enter" after "type: regedit" above.

Donna,

You did double-click the saved icon to verify that the other sizes were missing from the format didn't you?

Actually icon is a compound file. You cannot say an icon is in a given format, be it 32x32, or 16x16 unless you deleted all the other formats. The icon always saves in all formats you have included, what you have a problem with is the way Explorer or perhaos some other apps display them (that may include IconDeveloper's file open dialog). Don't get misled with a dialog showing only one icon as they don't necessarily have to choose to show you the format you would expect. If you use the icon in DesktopX or ObjectDock it should still yield the same results as before.

Also notice that in current ID in the Explorer's thumbnail view the icon shown is the antialiased XP icon, which I do not think was always the case before.

We had to change sort order of icons in IconDeveloper in preparation for Windows Vista and its 256x256 image format and also to make it compliant with Microsoft's guidelines better. I will look closer into the issue as IconDeveloper.13 is still under development (Beta).

I hope it helps.

If there are any actualy problems with using the icons in apps like OD or DX, please let me know and I shall investigate the matter further.

Thanks Koasati.

Also thank you, Aikido Master, Troll and Woman of Melodies. I always learn quite a bit from eves dropping on threads like this.

Sorry, forgot to say "hit Enter" after "type: regedit" above.

Before I go on, I just want to say that I get a technological kick out of you, Paul! (That's a good thing! )

I uninstalled and rebooted and made sure all thoe files had no ID files sstill contained in them. Reinstalled, but with no change. So I decided to archive the older version. Actually, it's better but I'm still have a little difficulty. It's not quite the same as it was before all this happened. It's saving the icons in 128x128, but without the quality as before. I've got to try some more things and see if I can get the quality back. Maybe I need to export them in a different way, not sure.

After I saved them, I had not had to double click them in the past for any reason. So I tried double clicking the saved icon. It opened in Irfanview and gave me the option to save as an icon or png file. I tried both ways, however both ways left me with a black background. Even the png!

I'll keep working on it.

Thanks, Skinstudio for input, info and for considering the next ID update.

Oooops. I confused avatars. I should have said "Thanks SkinStudio" not "thanks Koasati"

Thanks, Skinstudio!!

AHA! So it's not me - Woman of Melodies! I was wondering where Koasati came in on this! I was beginning to believe SkinStudio was an alias for Koasati!

So I tried double clicking the saved icon. It opened in Irfanview and gave me the option to save as an icon or png file.

Donna,

This sounds like you have Infranview as the default handler for viewing ".ico" files.

If so, what happens if you set IconDeveloper as the associated program for ".ico" files (Tools > Preferences > File Types > select ".ico" > click "Apply"), and then double-click the file to view all the included formats after saving?

I'm not sure that this will make any difference, but it might be worth a try.

HOLY MOLY! It works, Paul! I really don't know when or how Irfanview became the default image handler for ico files, but at least the transfer back to ID is working! I'm still leaving the archived ID on my comp for a while, at least until I get this package completed. Plus I'd like to see how the next build is, well... built! THANK YOU!

I hope others like Bichur and Webgismos are able to get ID working to their specifications as well. Good luck guys!

When I double click on an icon in ID it opens with Paint.net...is this correct? I tried doing the re-association (Tools > Preferences > File Types > select ".ico" > click "Apply") but it still opens with Paint.net. When I tried to method suggested it already had .ico set for the file type. Any other way to correct this? Or is this not a problem?

When I double click on an icon in ID it opens with Paint.net...is this correct?

Thats where it opens for me, 47songs had .ico when double clicked in explorer opening in IrfanView not ID.

Ahhh...OK.

When I double click on an icon in ID it opens with Paint.net...is this correct?

If you want to use a different editor automatically on double click then in ID, tools, preferences, image editors - add the one you want - then move it up to the top of the list.