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# About
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This is the client component of `advotracker`.
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## Windows specific
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We like to support an icon an object attributes for the compiled
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version of `advotracker`. While searching for a solution, the description of this
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[Web link][https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/77359/how-to-convert-a-square-svg-to-all-size-ico]
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was adapted and combined with a `windres` crate.
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### Icon creation
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This commandline solution will create an icon that can be linked into the Windows binary.
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* create the `svg` art file
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You may use `inkscape`, a versitile and user frendly
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tool to create your vector graphics art. Save it as `advotracker.svg`. Next export the scaled png files.
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```
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inkscape -w 16 -h 16 -o advotracker_16.png -l advotracker.svg
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inkscape -w 32 -h 32 -o advotracker_32.png -l advotracker.svg
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inkscape -w 48 -h 48 -o advotracker_48.png -l advotracker.svg
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inkscape -w 64 -h 64 -o advotracker_64.png -l advotracker.svg
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```
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* create the `ico` file
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The ico format can handle multiple layes with different resolutions.
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We make use of ImageMagick to create the icon file like this:
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```
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convert advotracker_16.png advotracker_32.png advotracker_48.png advotracker_64.png advotracker.ico
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```
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* link in the icon
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rust offers the `windres` crate, that will handle the linking of icons
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as well as the definition of binary objet resources. `advotracker`
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will define the needed settings in its `build.rs` file.
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