When building an Eclipse RCP product, you have the ability to generate a native executable. By default the icon associated with the executable is the Eclipse graphic.
There’s an option in the product definition (‘.product’ file) that lets you use your own icons.
There are two ways to attach the icons …
- Six different BMP files – 16×16, 32×32, & 48×48 at 32 bit & 8 bit depths.
- A single ICO file with all six graphics included.
I was struggling with creating the graphic files I needed. I had no problem getting the 32 bit version of the files created, but couldn’t figure out how to create the 8 bit version.