Is there a problem or just incomplete help

[doppler]

I saw a really nice command inside VWatch, called $EXEICON.  Works nice to change the default windows ICON.  I was wondering if multiple icons could be embedded in the exe, like most window programs can.  I hit the <F1> for help and all I got was a blank help page after a downloading page attempt.  WTH ?

I have loaded the latest "Stable" release.  So as the tittle says "Problem/incomplete" ?

[Ashish]

Hi! Currently, You can't add multiple icons using $EXEICON. But you can edit internal/temp/icon.rc or you can add them to your program with Resource Hacker program.

[FellippeHeitor]

If a help page fails to show, try going to the Help menu and selecting Update current page. That'll reload the help page from the wiki.

About multiple icons: You can specify an .ico file with multiple icons in it, and that'll import all of them into the final .exe.

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[Ashish]

About multiple icons: You can specify an .ico file with multiple icons in it, and that'll import all of them into the final .exe.

So, that means $EXEICON support multiple icon. It must be mention on wiki.

[FellippeHeitor]

You can't pass it multiple .ico *files*. But since an .ico file can hold multiple versions of an icon, it is implicit that you can use one of these.

[doppler]

Well, I still have a blank page even after "update page".

I tried update all pages.  I have come to the conclusion.  I can't get there from here.
If the warning is true for ~10 mins to update.  There is a problem.
With 540 items to get and 30 seconds per-item.

I am looking at 4 and 1/2 hours to complete.

I am timing out for some reason.

I am using pi-hole to disable troublesome DNS requests.  I have looked at the log.  Pi-hole is
not blocking the DNS entry of QB64 requests.

Where to go now ?
PS, I am still using latest stable release.

[FellippeHeitor]

Just find what you need in the wiki for now. It's the source for the help pages after all: www.qb64.org/wiki

[Pete]

No anti-virus or firewall software messing with the connection? Well, you could go live with Clippy and have him hand type that help page for you. I'd say you'd be better off chopping off one foot and hopping off a cliff before doing that, but what do I know? I wonder where this data is stored and if help from the WIKI could just be copied and pasted into QB64, without downloading the pages? Maybe Fell knows where and how they are stored. I do recall my DNS blocked me from using QB64 to email Rob, but on his end, his DNS was not so strict, so he could use his QB64 app to email me.

Pete

[FellippeHeitor]

Aaaaaah. Problem solved with one detail I've missed.

Stable is still trying to fetch from [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]. Rob has redirected .net to.org but that's exactly what's causing the slowdown.

Please use the latest development build as it'll fetch directly from qb64.org and will also parse the new wiki format correctly.

[Pete]

Good catch!

Pete

[doppler]

Latest dev, aka: Cutting edge software.  Also known as "The bleeding edge".

In the past, I avoid "The bleeding edge software".  I have been hooked into
subscribed "Beta's".  Year(s) between stables (or not at all).  Bugs which should
have been fixed into stable releases go on and on and on.  Don't believe me
read in the "newsleecher" forums.  I don't subscribe (pay) to betas anymore
there.

I will trust "The bleeding edge of QB64".  There are too many sharp developers
here, who don't want to be "held up" to ridicule of "What the hell were you thinking
when you wrote that."

I agree with Ashish, execicon wiki should be modified.  As well as a link to the
resource hacking program mentioned even earlier.

This problem is concluded.