im making a vb.net app and i want to set the icon, how can i do this?
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turns out i was a bit confused, and it was working. but the answers can still be useful for others.
If I understand the question and issue, your setup/installer might be missing something.
It would seem you did create a shortcut, add it to the Setup project to install to the Desktop (else you wouldnt have one at all)
Select the shortcut in your setup project, open the properties window
Click Target. The list of files you are installing will come up. Select the App.Exe (ie the main executable "MyApp.exe" ususally the primary output). I think Icon is supposed to be set to "Icon" as well.
I think those 2 things combined link the Desktop Shortcut's Icon property to Use the App.Exe's. If there is also a shortcut in the user's programs menu do the same thing (or drag drop a copy).
You are basically doing to the Setup Project's shortcut what you would do to a normal desktop icon to change it or set it. The proj apparently fills in the actual path etc at install.
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PUBLISH simply compiles everything and produces files for the dev to distribute. It is called PUBLISH because in many cases the output includes a ready to use Setup program for the END USER to install on the PC. (Based on your new Pic, you are trying to reinstall everytime you click the icon or file inside the folder.)
Again, if you do not add a Setup proj to your project, the default one is used and it gives no option for where to install and does not add a shortcut.
Just delete all that junk, Publish again to the default location (VS Studio\...Project name\bin\Publish). Go to that folder and run setup. It will still install to Users\AppData.. but will add a shortcut (to the program) to the start menu.
For a desktop icon, do the "Send To Desktop ..." thing. To INSTALL an icon, you have to add and modify a Setup proj to your Solution.
HTH
'The folder shows the icon for the app, but the icon for the form is different. change the form's icon(in the property grid) to the same as the app and you should see it then.
When you publish it there's 2 files produced that are basically setup files. One relies on the ClickOnce Application Deployment Support Library and the other is a standalone setup app. Since neither one is the actual app you designed, they aren't going to have the icon you want. You'll probably have to investigate other more configurable deployment options.
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Hello from the other side,
Python file on pycharm
I pip installed some packages using pycharm terminal: mysql connector, pymysql, pillow, etc needed for my programmes.
I have created some Python files and imported mysql connector, pymysql, PIL, etc and my codes worked fine.
Recently I tried creating a new python file in a new project, when I tried to import mysql connector and pymysql, my codes get red underline, notifying me that the imported modules can't be found.
These are the same packages I imported in my previous files and they worked fine.
So why are they turning red underline and greyed out now?
Do I need to be pip installing these packages for every new project?
I tried to see how I could resolve this by making some researches and asking some friends. I was advised to go to the settings and try to create a new environment with the installed packages of my choice, and then checking the boxes for global inheritance and making it available for other projects.
After this, the OK button was inactive (greyed), so I couldnt apply this change. I discovered I was notified that the enviroment rowbox wasnt empty and that I should use a new virtual environment which is empty but I really don't know how to create this.
Please if you've encountered something like this before or can assist, kindly give me a step-by-step approach.
Open File -> Settings
Select Project Interpreter than go to the gear wheel in the upper right corner and select add.
Use Virtual Environment, select your prefered base Interpreter in my case 3.6 and add the name for the virtual environment and where you want to store it
If you don't need to I would suggest to not inherit global site packages
But you should select make it available to other projects.
Confirm it.
Afterwards the virtual env should be selected in project interpreter if not select it from the list. Right beside the List you see a plus, you can use this to add new packages with python (doesn't work all the time for me -> then use terminal)
I really thank everyone who made effort to attempt my question. After much trial, I was able to resolve it and I will post how I resolved it step-by-step to enable others like me understand better.
First, when installing our Pycharm, a folder is automatically created for storing every project we shall be working on, this folder becomes the database of our projects. In most cases, folder is stored in our C:\drive.
Now, open your pycharm window (I mean your working template),
File ----> open (this diplays the folders in your drive) ----> select the folder for storing your Pycharm projects and click ok. NOTE: do not open this folder to show your projects, just click on it and click ok. There are some situations whereby the Pycharm projects folder is already displayed on our pycharm window, this is because we already chose it during our installation. In a case like this, no need trying to bring it to the Projects displayed in our window as it'd already be displayed in the Projects in our window.
Your Pycharm projects folder will then display in your pycharm window under Projects.
Click on the Pycharm projects folder under your Projects and it will be highlighted blue.
Go to settings ----> Project: (your pycharm projects folder will also show here)
By the right, select Project interpreter.
Do your normal installation of packages by clicking on the + sign at the right extreme (that is if you haven't installed any package before)
Then configure your environment setting by making sure the boxes for inheriting global site packages and making this available to other projects are checked.
When configuring your environment setting for the pycharm projects folder, the location path should also end with your pycharm projects folder\venv ; please do not include the name of any particular project in the location path as doing this will make these changes effective in only that particular project files.
Then click ok.
Whatever project your create under the Pycharm projects folder will then inherit every packages you've installed in the pycharm project settings.
I believe this will help those who have been having difficulty resolving this.
I have been building my App for Android repeatedly without any errors. I know tried to also build it for iOS which would not work, since I now know that I need a Mac.
After that, I tried to build it again for Android and now everything seems broken. IntelliJ tells me everywhere that it "can't resolve Symbols" and "can't resolve methods". I tried opening and closing the IDE and also restarted the computer, tho I am not able to make a successful build again. This just started after the failed iOS build.
Here is a Screenshot for you, those are very simple lines, there is no reason for them not to work. I am really clueless right now what wrong.
Maybe someone of you has an advice for me? I can only repeat, i did not change the code at all, but it just won't compile anymore, neither in the simulator nor with the Android build.
That may be due to a missing or corrupt CodenameOne_SRC.zip and/or CodenameOne.zip and/or JavaSE.jar files.
Solution:
Create a new dummy Codename One project, right click on the dummy project and select Properties then click the Update Project libs button. Once it's done, close the dialog and right click the project again, then navigate to Codename One -> Refresh cn1lib files.
Now close the dummy project and minimize your IDE and go open your Dummy project folder in your file explorer. Now copy the CodeNameOneBuildClient.jar and JavaSE.jar found in the main folder to the relative path of your faulty project, replace them if already exist. Do the same for CLDC11.jar, CodenameOne.jar, CodenameOne_SRC.zip that are found in the lib folder of your dummy project.
Go back to IntelliJ and right click on your faulty project and navigate to Codename One -> Refresh cn1lib files, then clean and build your project.
This should fix any reference or missing class issues.
FYI, you don't need a Mac to build an iOS project in Codename One.
I created a Mac app that uses ConnectionKit to connect to a server using FTP. Today I went to export the file and use it on another computer only to find that the app does not open entirely on a different computer.
On the development computer, the app functions completely, but on another computer, it opens, the icon stops bouncing in the dock, and the name of the app is shown in the menu bar, but the first view controller and window are never opened.
The menu is also not visible. It just shows the app title and nothing else.
I assume that this has to do with ConnectionKit, but I checked the package contents of the exported bundle and ConnectionKit is in there under Frameworks.
Here are the steps I took to include it.
I downloaded ConnectionKit using git clone
I downloaded each git submodule using git submodule update --recursive --init
I dragged the ConnectionKit.xcodeproj file to my Frameworks directory in the project explorer
I added ConnectionKit from the workspace into the "Link Binary with Libraries" section
I added a new "Copy Files" build phase.
I changed the destination to "Frameworks"
I added the ConnectionKit.framework from the Products of the ConnectionKit.xcodeproj to the copy files phase.
The build phases tab looks like this:
This doesn't seem to work. The application just sits there and doesn't launch the app on any computer other than the development computer.
What am I doing wrong here?
You need to run the app in Xcode under the debugger on one of these other computers. It sounds very likely that you are getting a raise at launch. Seeing the raise in the debugger would doubtless shed light on the cause, which might or might not even have anything to do with ConnectionKit. :-> You could also look at the console logs generated by your app, in Console.app (in Applications/Utilities/), but actually getting the raise in the debugger is generally more useful unless the problem is something very obvious.
So, I have this problem when trying to build my project.
Currently If I run the project in Debug mode, it runs fine, the app starts up on the device and I can test stuff.
However the weird part is when i switch over to the Release build and try to build on the device. When I press the Run button Xcode builds as normal and the build succeeded notification even pops up, but then I get this error code.
Lets call my app xxx
Could not launch "xxx.app"
No such file or directory:
/Users/*my Name*/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*Bunch of xcode folders*/Products/Release-iphoneos/xxx.app/xxx
I went into finder and searched up xxx.app and couldn't find it. Furthermore there doesn't even exist a Library folder under /Users/my Name/.
So what is xcode trying to do here, and what should I do to fix this?
Edit: I have also tried Cleaning the project and building again, the error code still comes up.
I get this crap all the time.
What I do is clean the project, close it, shut down Xcode, start up Xcode, open project, then build and run.
If that still does not work then find the "DerivedData' folder Organizer->Projects and delete it, then do the above again and try again.
I tried creating a new scheme and setting it to Release mode. That worked for me. However, a reboot after closing xCode seems to work, too.
I went into finder and searched up xxx.app and couldn't find it. Furthermore there doesn't even exist a Library folder under /Users/my Name/.
It does exist, but it's hidden (since OSX Lion) in the Finder (because standard users -- as opposed to developers -- should not mess with it).
Some utilities (on a simple command line) can make it visible again but the simplest thing to do is to use "Go" menu of the Finder and select "Go to folder…" (Command-Shift-G). Then copy/paste the path you want to go to and validate.
I have an MSI package that creates some shortcuts, playing around with Windows 8 I noticed that on the Start screen it shows only the shortcuts from the top level folder of my application which I create in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\. When I hit "All apps" Windows displays and the shortcuts from the sub-folders for other apps (for example VS 2012), but not for mine. Does anyone knows why? What else do I need to do so I can have Windows display shortcuts found in my sub-folder when the user selects "All apps"?
Here is a partial answer. It appears that there is a problem with the app indexer. So far I haven't found a way to simply force the search to find my apps without a bit of unneeded effort. To force search to find your app you can simply pin it to the start menu and then unpin it from the start menu this adds it to your local preferences.
Another indication of what is happening is that, even if a shortcut is deleted, it still shows in the All Apps menu until you do a disk cleanup and delete thumbnails.
I found another oddity. I have Tortoise Svn installed and anything I put in the start menu folder for that application shows up, but in my Open Office start menu folder the link has to be prepended with "OpenOffice.org " to show up.
I install my shortcut links here:
C:\Users\Randall\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
This works just fine for me. My shortcuts all show up in the Win8 all apps list.
I'm installing in the user's profile so my app can run as a non-admin.