Custom ICO with C5

Hello,

You are impatient!

There are several plug-ins for Photoshop, some of them free, that allow you to create icons. Just Google and you'll find them easily.

Lilybiri

On Windows, you can create them with Microsoft Paint, which comes free with the OS. You just have to use Save As, choose a bitmap format, and give it a filename of "whatever.ico" (be sure *to include* the quotation marks around the string).

It would help if you'd link the article from the help, rather than copy/paste it.   Still, five minutes on Google turns up this, from MSDN, which seems to fit the bill:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511280.aspx

I'm not sure how a link to the C5 user guide is more helpful than using cut / paste from the relevant section but here it is anyway.

It's more helpful in that others can see what you might have inadvertantly left out, and so that the entire context before and after the quoted material is included, including the comment thread, if any. So thanks for the link.

Thanks for the link to the interesting background reading but I was looking for a program that other users have used and know works within Captivate.

I think if you had actually bothered to read that "interesting background reading" you would have found step-by-step instructions for creating files in a Windows-friendly version of the *.ico format, including specific recommendations for software that can be used for the purpose. If you're not up for that, I would suggest you find some freely redistributable icons and simply choose one that suits your project (google "open source icons" for hundreds of them).

I might take a stab at creating one from scratch. If I do, I'll document the process and chime back in with a link.

I haven't tested creating OS X icons yet, but, if your target platform is Windows, I've found a solution, and I've tested it, and it works. Here's my text *.exe, created with Captivate 5 (on Windows 7) and displaying a custom icon:

I created the icons--seven of them, per the specs in the Captivate 5 docs--with IcoFX, a free icon editor for Windows: http://icofx.ro/

You were getting the Captivate error you mentioned because your icon file didn't contain the specific images described in Adobe's docs. I got that same error when I tried creating an icon using a single 256x256 32-bit image. Adding the other six to the icon file (*.ico is actually a bundle of multipe images) via Icon --> New Image in IcoFX and saving out fixed it. You don't have to worry about the order. I created the 256x256 32-bit image first and then just went down the list you linked in the Adobe Captivate 5 docs. Here's what the *.ico file looks like in IcoFX:

Verified. Works. Happy?