I'd like to try editing imageres.dll. Experience with that file?

MultiPotent said:

... how can one edit a imageres.dll.mun file correctly? Whats the method?

You've found your way back to my original question, and the answer is, "There apparently isn't one that Windows will accept."

Hey, OldGuy,

I think you missed the part of the thread where I said I was trying to find a way to carry over the dynamic desktop icon behaviour to a toolbar with a custom pair of icons. What you're talking about is the standard substitution of desktop icons for the default ones, and the editing of the registry key that's required to keep the substitutes working accurately. What the thread is about is the fact that even though you can send the RecBin icons to a taskbar toolbar (see Brink's tutorial for that) and keep the dynamic quality of the icons (the empty/full switching behaviour), the dynamic quality is broken if you try to use custom icons in the toolbar.

I figured that the only way to make it work -- dynamic icons in a toolbar -- would be to make Windows think that the custom icons were the system icons, and therefore to substitute the custom icons for the system icons in the system icon .dll file.

And that's where I've (we've) hit the wall. Editing imageres.dll and substituting the edited version for the original version in the Windows\System32 folder just plain doesn't work.

Thanks for checking in, though. Greetings from Kingston, Ontario.

Dan (Another old guy from Canada)

No problem whatsoever. Your intentions were entirely noble.

See post #8 in this thread (page 1, I think) for early coverage of the points you made just now.

Thanks again.

Dan

Hey, MultiPotent,

Welcome to TenForums. It's a great place to visit and you might, in fact, want to live there. (That's a play on an old aphorism, and you may be too young to recognize it. Lucky you.)

I think you're spot on. If we can successfully edit that file and get Windows to accept that edited file as its own, we're home free. It goes without saying that Microsoft does not cotton to (sorry; another old expression) our fiddling with its very own system files.

MultiPotent said:

I posted on the official microsoft communitry. Maybe we can get an "official reply" …

That's not what you will get there. The MS employees who reply are engaged as subcontractors just for the forum. They are not MS representatives.

You already know more about this topic than any of them do.
If you are lucky then you'll get a response from somebody, almost certainly a private individual like us, who has been experimenting as we have and therefore knows what's what.

Denis

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