advotracker/advotracker_client

About

This is the client component of advotracker.

Windows specific

We like to support an icon an object attributes for the compiled version of advotracker. While searching for a solution, the description of this [Web link][https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/77359/how-to-convert-a-square-svg-to-all-size-ico] was adapted and combined with a windres crate.

Icon creation

This commandline solution will create an icon that can be linked into the Windows binary.

• create the svg art file You may use inkscape, a versitile and user frendly tool to create your vector graphics art. Save it as advotracker.svg. Next export the scaled png files.

inkscape -w 16 -h 16 -o advotracker_16.png -l advotracker.svg
inkscape -w 32 -h 32 -o advotracker_32.png -l advotracker.svg
inkscape -w 48 -h 48 -o advotracker_48.png -l advotracker.svg
inkscape -w 64 -h 64 -o advotracker_64.png -l advotracker.svg

• create the ico file The ico format can handle multiple layes with different resolutions. We make use of ImageMagick to create the icon file like this:

convert advotracker_16.png advotracker_32.png advotracker_48.png advotracker_64.png advotracker.ico

• link in the icon

rust offers the windres crate, that will handle the linking of icons as well as the definition of binary objet resources. advotracker will define the needed settings in its build.rs file.