Setting eWriter custom icon

[Sheri Steeves]

Hello,

I'm creating eWriter books and using a base project to create three sets of documents for different flavors of the same product.

I'm build via command line for each flavor; is there a way to set a customized eBook icon for each flavor I build?
Can I use variables to specify the custom eBook icon in the EBook visual appearance settings?

[Tim Green]

Hi Sheri,

This isn't possible because the icon is associated with the file type, not with a specific instance of the file. In the same way you can't assign different icons to individual Word .docx files.

[Tim Frost]

If you are building your EBooks as an EXE file, rather than an Ewriter file, each one can have its own icon, stored in the 'resources' section which any EXE file can have. But I do not know the answer to your question about whether there is a way to set the icon in a command-line option or variable list, because there is only one EBook in our build process.

[Simon_Dismore]

the icon is associated with the file type, not with a specific instance of the file. In the same way you can't assign different icons to individual Word .docx files.

Tim's right. But you can assign custom icons to shortcuts to files, maybe that would help.

[screenshot] Custom icons for shortcuts to .ewriter files.png

[Sheri Steeves]

Thanks for the followup - I was being dumb and thinking the custom icon in the settings would replace the little orange book icon in the caption bar of the eviewer.exe. I am already using a custom ewriter extension and registering that with my custom icon.