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Advanced Topics - Customising Icons
CoolMenu makes it quick and easy to create your own icons for applications and documents.

Open Windows Paint and create an image 32x32 pixels using an unique colour for the background The colour for the pixel in the Top Left corner is used to determine the transparent background colour resulting in Save the image in My Documents as Logo.bmp Right-click on the Item you are going to customise the icon for Select Item Properties from the menu Select Change Icon... Click Graphics... Locate and select Logo.bmp Click Open Click OK Click OK And that's it! What if you want to alter the icon being used slightly to indicate a specific use? Well CoolMenu makes the task of getting the icon fairly easy. Right-click on the Item you are going to alter the icon for. Select Item Properties from the menu. Select Change Icon... If the Item is a shortcut no icons will appear in the scroll box! To fix this select Browse... and click OK. You should now see the icons of the associated application. Select the icon you wish to alter Click Copy to Clipboard Click Paint In Paint set the Image Attributes... to 32x32 pixels From the Edit menu select Paste Now cutomise the image remembering to set the transparent colour (top-left) Save the image in My Documents Close Paint and return to CoolMenu Click Graphics... Locate and select the newly created image Click Open Click OK Click OK The Item should now display your newly created icon You could use an icon editor in place of Paint, just make sure it's able to handle 256 colours.