Pictures in Auto Run

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How can you attach a picture to an Auto Run icon?

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Right click on the program's icon, select "icon properties". Select "Define fill", then "Load Icon Image. Before you do this, open the picture in Paint or other photo editor and re-size the picture to the smallest resolution possible. Pictures that are a bazillion megapixels will take longer to load. I will typically use Paint. Select Resize option at top. Tick the Pixel radio button and enter 200 to 300 in the first field, and let the second field automatically adjust due to Maintain Aspect Ration being selected.

You'll be able to resize the icon in this area, too, Or, by grabbing the corner of the icon and dragging it to the desired size.

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Tom i learned a neat shortcut for that a while back, too bad i never use autorun because its a great time saver.
The biggest saver is when you have a family of programs that get loaded as needed and aren't attached to a permanent page, they load up with picture ready to go.

make your thumbnail (i like to use screen shots) nice and square, save it as a bitmap and name it "inspict.bmp".
Place that file in the inspection folder of the part you are working on, and when you load it into autorun the picture will automatically show up.

I think a file named "icon.bmp" will change the picture in the execute menu and replace the generic picture of the cmm when you start a program.

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