Using Resource Hacker for changing the icon after the build

delphi icons embedded-resource explorer post-build-event
LaBracca picture LaBracca · Mar 2, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

This question is written in several places (like here and here).

In the second question there is a comment that says to use

ResHacker.exe -addoverwrite "Project.exe", "Project.exe", "ProgramIcon.ico", ICONGROUP, MAINICON, 0

I also tried using -modify instead of -addoverwrite

ResHacker.exe -modify "Project.exe", "Project.exe", "ProgramIcon.ico", ICONGROUP, MAINICON, 0

but the result is the same.

The icon is changed: if I right click on the exe file and check the properties I see that the icon has been changed, but in Windows Explorer I still see the old icon.

If I open it with Resource Hacker (so not using it as command line tool, but as normal GUI tool) I see the correct icon in the "Open file" dialog.

Can anybody suggest a solution? I am trying to use this in a Delphi post build event.

Answer

David Heffernan picture David Heffernan · Mar 2, 2011

I suspect that you are seeing the icon from explorer's icon cache.

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