Forms 4.0: How Do You Customize Your Iconics

I wasn't all that pleased with the iconic files that are available with Forms 4.0. I wanted a button for a drop down list box, but the only LOV button iconic that was available was one with five or six horizontal lines going through it. Developers are recognizing that as the symbol for a LOV, but Windows users don't.

I wanted a button with an arrow and a horizontal line, just like in most Windows applications. I found two simple iconic files, compared them at the byte level, determined how the image is stored in the ICO file, and then managed to design my own drop down list button. It looks almost as good as a real Windows button image.

Have you ever designed your own button image icon files? How did you do it? Is Oracle Graphics something I should investigate for this purpose?

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         Tim McLellan                          tim.mclellan_at_ualberta.ca
         Computing and Network Services        phone  (403) 492-1396
         352 GSB  University of Alberta        fax    (403) 492-1729
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