Old icon "search as seperate process..." In taskbar. Bug or not?

[EvgenyUA]

If you run the search as seperate process... then on the taskbar you get the old TC icon, i.e. it doesn't read from the specified file in IconLib="".

[petermad]

Confirmed - but it has always been like that.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately Windows itself decides which icon it will use in the task bar. I cannot control it.

[tuska]

[OT]
Just a note:
Search... Alt+F7 -> shows the IconLib=... icon
[/OT]

[tuska]

...

[Dalai]

2tuska
The OP asked about separate search, i.e. Alt+Shift+F7, not Alt+F7. I agree about the post's tone though.

[white]

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2EvgenyUA
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[tuska]

2tuska
The OP asked about separate search, i.e. Alt+Shift+F7, not Alt+F7. ...

Yes, I know.
On the one hand, I wanted to point out that there is another way to display the desired icon.
On the other hand, I had considered setting my post as [OT] [/OT] which I have now done this so that there is no ambiguity.

[ghisler(Author)]

I can set the icon from the icon library in the title bar, but this will only affect the task bar as long as Total Commander hasn't been pinned to the task bar.

[AntonyD]

I hope you do it twice?

HICON hIconSmall =(HICON)LoadImage(handleToYourApplicationInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON1), IMAGE_ICON,16, 16, 0);
HICON hIconLarge =(HICON)LoadImage(handleToYourApplicationInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON1), IMAGE_ICON,256, 256, 0); // Big for task bar, small loaded otherwise.

SendMessage(yourWindowHandle, WM_SETICON, ICON_SMALL, (LPARAM)hIconSmall) ;
SendMessage(yourWindowHandle, WM_SETICON, ICON_BIG, (LPARAM)hIconLarge) ;

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, that's how I handle it in the main window too.

[AntonyD]

So this is another bug of the selected programming framework. It’s too old and it doesn’t seem to be updated conceptually.
If you do these operations for a project, compiled in VisualStudio 2019 for example, no wrong icons for created and opened by
analogy with "search as seperate process..." - just not. The correct icon is always displayed.

[ghisler(Author)]

Why do you think that? The programming environment knows nothing of the user-defined icon library (via IconLib=). And the taskbar limitation of pinned programs having the main icon isn't the fault of the compiler either.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm now using the redefined icons for search, synchronize dirs, and compare by content (but NOT for Lister), please check it.

10.12.24 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, compare by content: Set icon in title bar correctly when using external icon library (32/64)
08.12.24 Fixed: Find files, search in separate process: Set icon in title bar correctly when using external icon library (32/64)

[tuska]

These are my test results with 11.50RC2 with:
wincmd.ini - [Configuration] - IconLib=C:\totalcmd\Tools\FS_Capture_portable\FSCapture.exe

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						  		x64 dark   x64 normal	   x86 dark   x86 normal
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1. Find files, search in separate process ...................    OK  (A)    OK    (A)	    OK   (A)   OK    (A)
2. synchronize dirs .........................................        (B)          (B)	         (B)	     (B)
3. sync dirs - compare by content (but NOT for Lister) ......        (C)	  (C)		 (C)         (C)

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(A) Works: Search in separate process... Alt+Shift+F7; em_commands
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(B) Works: cm_FileSync, %COMMANDER_EXE% /S=S:= "%X%Z%P" "%T" /O=%WL
    Does NOT work:
    - em_commands
    - %COMMANDER_EXE% /S=S:=.D-I - OR - %COMMANDER_EXE% /S=S:=.C-totalcmd_D-Totalcmd
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(C) Works: cm_FileSync, Compare...
    Does NOT work:
    - Ctrl+F3: Compare left & right -> The TC icon(!) is displayed in the “Compare contents” window instead of the FSC icon.

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