Refresh icons on install, again

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Several posts to the group have dealt with the question of icons not
refreshing after installation, but none seem to address the problem I have
encountered. Installshield website and IS 6 online help (updated) seem to
offer no help.

I am creating a start menu and desktop icon during installation. The icons
are defined on the resources pane and connected to a file group that
includes the icon files (ICO format), which is part of a required component.
The target is specified with a relative path that may include spaces, ie.
"<myDir>\subDir" After the installation, the displayed icon is the default
flying windows logo. The properties of the shortcut reveal that all of the
specifications (target, start folder, etc.) I made were correctly used. If
I try to change the icon manually, I see that the my icon file is correctly
shown. If I click "ok" in the change icon dialog and click "ok" in the
shortcut properties sheet, the icon suddenly refreshes to my icon.

Is something wrong with the Explorer Shell? Should I add something to my
script to force the shell to refresh? My setup is Win2k with IS 6.11 (I
have ordered 6.2). Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Bill

======================================
William Scharffenberg
william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil

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Well, no one seems to have any ideas. I have quit using the IDE for icons
and registry settings. At least I know that doing from the script will
always work.

Bill

======================================
William Scharffenberg
william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil


"William Scharffenberg" <william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil> wrote in
message news:3993334e.0@208.30.171.38...
> Several posts to the group have dealt with the question of icons not
> refreshing after installation, but none seem to address the problem I have
> encountered. Installshield website and IS 6 online help (updated) seem to
> offer no help.
>
> I am creating a start menu and desktop icon during installation. The
icons
> are defined on the resources pane and connected to a file group that
> includes the icon files (ICO format), which is part of a required
component.
> The target is specified with a relative path that may include spaces, ie.
> "<myDir>\subDir" After the installation, the displayed icon is the
default
> flying windows logo. The properties of the shortcut reveal that all of
the
> specifications (target, start folder, etc.) I made were correctly used.
If
> I try to change the icon manually, I see that the my icon file is
correctly
> shown. If I click "ok" in the change icon dialog and click "ok" in the
> shortcut properties sheet, the icon suddenly refreshes to my icon.
>
> Is something wrong with the Explorer Shell? Should I add something to my
> script to force the shell to refresh? My setup is Win2k with IS 6.11 (I
> have ordered 6.2). Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill
>
> ======================================
> William Scharffenberg
> william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil
>
>

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I don't have input for you, but I'm having the same problem.

--
Thank you,
Tim Wittbrod
Integral Technologies
tel: +1-317-845-9242
fax: +1-317-845-9275
www.integraltech.com

"William Scharffenberg" <william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil> wrote in
message news:3993334e.0@208.30.171.38...
> Several posts to the group have dealt with the question of icons not
> refreshing after installation, but none seem to address the problem I have
> encountered. Installshield website and IS 6 online help (updated) seem to
> offer no help.
>
> I am creating a start menu and desktop icon during installation. The
icons
> are defined on the resources pane and connected to a file group that
> includes the icon files (ICO format), which is part of a required
component.
> The target is specified with a relative path that may include spaces, ie.
> "<myDir>\subDir" After the installation, the displayed icon is the
default
> flying windows logo. The properties of the shortcut reveal that all of
the
> specifications (target, start folder, etc.) I made were correctly used.
If
> I try to change the icon manually, I see that the my icon file is
correctly
> shown. If I click "ok" in the change icon dialog and click "ok" in the
> shortcut properties sheet, the icon suddenly refreshes to my icon.
>
> Is something wrong with the Explorer Shell? Should I add something to my
> script to force the shell to refresh? My setup is Win2k with IS 6.11 (I
> have ordered 6.2). Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill
>
> ======================================
> William Scharffenberg
> william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil
>
>

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I'm only replying to this in hopes of generating interest. I have had
precisely the same problem. I have tried broadcasting to Windows that the
environment has changed to no avail. i.e. I've tried:

#define HWND_BROADCAST 0xffff
#define WM_SETTINGCHANGE 0x001A
szParameter = "Environment"
pParameter = &szParameter
SendMessage (HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, pParameter)

which of course refreshes environment settings. Is it possible that either
WM_SETTINGCHANGE or szParameter needs to be different? I have yet to find
one that will refresh the Explorer shell.

Thanks in advance,

Ed Freedman
edwardf@eschergroup.com

"Timothy Wittbrod" <twittbrod@integraltech.com> wrote in message
news:3a895e3e$1@12.41.20.38...
> I don't have input for you, but I'm having the same problem.
>
> --
> Thank you,
> Tim Wittbrod
> Integral Technologies
> tel: +1-317-845-9242
> fax: +1-317-845-9275
> www.integraltech.com
>
> "William Scharffenberg" <william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil> wrote in
> message news:3993334e.0@208.30.171.38...
> > Several posts to the group have dealt with the question of icons not
> > refreshing after installation, but none seem to address the problem I
have
> > encountered. Installshield website and IS 6 online help (updated) seem
to
> > offer no help.
> >
> > I am creating a start menu and desktop icon during installation. The
> icons
> > are defined on the resources pane and connected to a file group that
> > includes the icon files (ICO format), which is part of a required
> component.
> > The target is specified with a relative path that may include spaces,
ie.
> > "<myDir>\subDir" After the installation, the displayed icon is the
> default
> > flying windows logo. The properties of the shortcut reveal that all of
> the
> > specifications (target, start folder, etc.) I made were correctly used.
> If
> > I try to change the icon manually, I see that the my icon file is
> correctly
> > shown. If I click "ok" in the change icon dialog and click "ok" in the
> > shortcut properties sheet, the icon suddenly refreshes to my icon.
> >
> > Is something wrong with the Explorer Shell? Should I add something to
my
> > script to force the shell to refresh? My setup is Win2k with IS 6.11 (I
> > have ordered 6.2). Your comments and suggestions are greatly
appreciated.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ======================================
> > William Scharffenberg
> > william.a.scharffenberg@usace.army.mil
> >
> >
>
>

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I've had some luck with this, at least for refreshing icons for new file
associations; perhaps another switch for SHChangeNotify (SHCNE_ALLEVENTS?)
would do the trick?

#define SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED 0x08000000
#define SHCNF_IDLIST 0x0000

prototype Shell32.SHChangeNotify(LONG, LONG, POINTER, POINTER);

// ...and later...

SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, SHCNF_IDLIST, NULL, NULL);

"Edward W Freedman" <edwardf@eschergroup.com> wrote in message
news:3a8abe24$1@12.41.20.38...
> [...] I have yet to find
> one that will refresh the Explorer shell.

--
Robert M. Dickau
Senior Technical Trainer
InstallShield Software Corp.
www.installshield.com/training