Personal Comments about OS/2 Icons

By Martin Iturbide

Creating Icons
On the modern days I tried to push the OS/2 icon format to the limit with the tools I was able to get. As a personal taste I had made some icons with the following properties: I'm saving the icons on 1.2 version and not on 2.0.
 * 1) 128x128 - RGB - Icon Edit
 * 2) 40x40 - RGB - Icon Edit



Some OS/2 Icon Editor Limitations

 * 1) If an icon is bigger than 128x128 in RGB Icon Editor may allow you to save it, but when you open it back (with the same Icon Editor) you will get a "The bitmap is to large to process" message.

OS/2 Desktop Limitation

 * 1) It seems that the OS/2 WPS desktop can not show icons bigger than 128x128 on the desktop.

Resizing a Pointer Experiment
I had tried to resize a pointer just as experiment.






 * arrow.prt - Original one. VGA 32x32
 * arrow2.prt - Modified with IconEdit - Added 128x128 on RGB. The icon has both VGA and 128x128.
 * arrow2-5.prt - Modified with IconEdit, 128x128, but removed the VGA one.
 * arrow3.prt - Modified with PMView from arrow2. Saved as OS2 icon 1.2 as Deep Color