setting icon

Questions
1

is there a way from the UI to set a project’s icon? thanks!

2

What do you mean by the UI. How exactly do you want to try and set it. You can set an Icon from the camera icon (lower left) when the code is running, or you can save an image named Icon in the project folder.

3

ah, didn’t know the camera trick. nearly good. one could imagine near the rename, a pic finder or the like. anyway thanks!

4

Trying to set icon on iPad Pro12.9 3g, says asset.Icon doesn’t exist:

5

This is truly weird. Also on one iPad i can look into Codea projects in Files, and on the other i cannot. :slight_smile:

6

@RonJeffries - it has changed over the years - the Codea project storage. I think it used to be stored as project.codea where ‘project’ is your project name. I think that you don’t need the file type now, ie drop the .codea. The project is just a folder which holds a Info.plist containing the files involved, the tabs as separate .lua files and icons. There used to be two icons - Icon.png and Icon@2x.png for the resolutions available. Note the icon case is important. You can see this if you open a project outside the iPad (PC) or if you take an exported/zipped project and unzip it.

It’s easier to just use the screen camera capture with the save icon (camera) option. You may need to address the icon in the correct case - could be something like ‘asset.documents.Icon‘. @Simeon will be able to tell you current practice.

Another point - you can set up a folder with assets in which is grouped with the other general assets in the root , ie outside documents folder - I do it by creating a folder externally containing the plist and icons e.g. for my Beermat Puzzle I have one named BMP.assets and it holds all the images I used. Ironically you have to address it as follows:

icn = asset.documents.BMP.Icon

Then you can load the project icon up directly.

7

Interesting. I think I’d have to see a picture of the structure you’re describing and the steps you use to set it up. I’m not clear on some of the ideas, I guess.

8

Here’s a project that changes its icon to a randomly coloured circle every time it is run:

-- Random Icon

function setup() 
    local icon = image(512,512)
    setContext(icon)
    
    fill(0)
    rect(0, 0, 512, 512)
    
    fill(math.random(0, 255), math.random(0, 255), math.random(0, 255))
    ellipseMode(CENTER)
    ellipse(256,256,512)
    
    setContext()
    
    saveImage(asset .. "Icon.png", icon)
end


function draw()

    background(40, 40, 50)

    strokeWidth(5)
    
end
9

Yes. My issue was that one can’t say asset.Icon unless the Icon already exists, and I had somehow managed to do it right in the past, on one project, so all my tests worked fine … on that project. :slight_smile: