Thanks for your suggested route - looks promising - I'll check this out!


--- In nsbasic-symbian@yahoogroups.com, "rmrsoft" <alan@...> wrote:
>
> Like everyone else I also struggled early on getting icons to work, and I
would also add that Nokia made some changes to S60 5th edition which meant that
icons produced using small JPG files look very 'blocky'.
>
> My solution is not to bother with Inkscape, but to use a 256x256 JPG file as
the baseline, then the JPG to SVG converter mentioned in the Technote and then
SVGBinEncode.exe to produce the SVG-T file. And that looks fine on 5800.
Although it would be nice to have a transparent background but that appears to
be impossible using the JPG route.
>
> Al
>
> --- In nsbasic-symbian@yahoogroups.com, Clistones Pedreira <clis.pedreira@>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Tony,
> >
> > I had some trouble to create icons, but finally I discovered an easy way:
> >
> > 1) create your icon using INKSCAPE. Adjust drawing size to 44px x 44px or
> > less
> > 2) save in SVG format
> > 3) in NSBASIC, project properties, launcher icon s60, choose the svg file
> > you created
> > 4) compile and be happy
> >
> > Maybe you have to make some minor adjustment in colors and size. An SVG
> > model is attached.
> >
> > Hope this could help!
> >
> > ---
> > Clis Pedreira
> > "Life longer and prosper"
> > clis.pedreira@
> > Brazil
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, George Henne <gh@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > What device are you using?
> > >
> > > Icon support on S60 is flakey. Here's a thread (you'll see I am in it)
> > > discussing some problems on the 5800:
> > >
> > > <http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?
> > > t=156026&highlight=problems+application+icons>
> > >
> > > >Having some difficulty creating S60 icons. On my device is it blank
> > > >where the icon should be.
> > > >
> > > >I have been reading Tech Note 09 to assist with creating icons. I have
> > > >generated an SVG icon file using Inkscape and saved it. I then ran the
> > > >SVG2SVGT tool (from the Nokia SDK) to convert the file into an SVG-T
> > > >file. The conversion appeared to be successful, creating a new file. I
> > > >then added the SVG-T file to Launcher Icon S60 properties in my project
> > > >and compiled.
> > > >
> > > >The compilation went fine and I installed the new file to my phone. I
> > > >turned to the phone off and on again to clear the cache but just a blank
> > > >icon :(
> > > >
> > > >I've done a bit of reading around Nokia forums and there doesn't seem to
> > > >be a specific dimension for the file as it's scalable... I tried several
> > > >different sizes anyway (48x48 etc) but no luck. Is NSBasic expecting the
> > > >file to be a certain dimension, if so what?
> > > >
> > > >Is there anything else I'm missing that might be giving me blank icons
> > > >on the device?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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