Setting the Application Icon

ODБOï

Hi,
im trying to set an icon for my application.

I tought i will simply create an icon, put it in my resources (qrc) and add RC_ICONS = myappico.ico in my .pro,
but the doc say :
However, if you already have an .rc file, for example, with the name myapp.rc, which you want to reuse, the following two steps will be required. First, put a single line of text to the myapp.rc file:

i have a resources.rc + version.h files for version handling purposes,

//resources.rc looks like this, and i dont know where to add the line

IDI_ICON1 ICON "myappico.ico"

#include <windows.h>
#include "version.h"

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION     VER_FILEVERSION
PRODUCTVERSION  VER_PRODUCTVERSION

BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904E4"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "CompanyName",        VER_COMPANYNAME_STR
            VALUE "FileDescription",    VER_FILEDESCRIPTION_STR
            VALUE "FileVersion",        VER_FILEVERSION_STR
            VALUE "InternalName",       VER_INTERNALNAME_STR
            VALUE "LegalCopyright",     VER_LEGALCOPYRIGHT_STR
            VALUE "LegalTrademarks1",   VER_LEGALTRADEMARKS1_STR
            VALUE "LegalTrademarks2",   VER_LEGALTRADEMARKS2_STR
            VALUE "OriginalFilename",   VER_ORIGINALFILENAME_STR
            VALUE "ProductName",        VER_PRODUCTNAME_STR
            VALUE "ProductVersion",     VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
        END
    END

    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
    END
END

Gojir4

Hi @LeLev,

Did you try to put your line at start of your existing rc file, after the includes ?
It is defined as this in the Qt example projects like Qt Win Extras - Quick Player example or Active Qt Wrapper example

ODБOï

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Gojir4

Hi @LeLev,

Did you try to put your line at start of your existing rc file, after the includes ?
It is defined as this in the Qt example projects like Qt Win Extras - Quick Player example or Active Qt Wrapper example

ODБOï

@Gojir4 hi
Thank you so much!
I did it before but it was underlined by Qt Creator and there was an error on that line saying :

Semantic Issue : error unknown type name IDI_ICON1

so hadn't even tried to compile.
But it actually works.
Thank you