Can i use IconPacker's icons for ObjectDock?

IconPlacker's

Hehe ..it's "IconPackager"

...anyway ...

"IconPlacker"    ...uses ".png" icons due to their size and clarity. [usually 128x128 or 256x256 pixels in size]

Whilst you can put IconPackager icons onto a dock ...they'll appear somewhat blurry/fuzzy, because they're smaller, they're in .ico format ~and will enlarge when you put them on the dock. [It's a proportion thing ]

Better to grab dock icons in .png format.

But that's your call ...it's up to you.

Hope that helped you a little.        ........I'm off to plack some icons   

collector5,
I use them all the time on my docks.they seem to be okay, for me, anyway.Take a look at some of my dock backgrounds. and like wreckless said your choice....
Good Luck
Rychian

If you use this neat little tool http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=15304 You can use just about any icon you want. I use this to convert icons to png format in a snap. It automatically resizes the icons to a larger size and you don't have to go through the process of renaming them again each time. I've been using this for a long time now and it works great! You just drag and drop an icon onto it an out pops a png ready to use. Try it...I think you'll like it. And nothing to install...just unzip it to a folder and you can either put shortcut to it in a dock...which is where I keep it handy or make a short cut on your desktop.

You know Giz, ...I thought of mentioning Iconifier as well ..but then thought it might be information overload.

It is a very handy tool, Collector5. I've also been using it since AndreasV first made it available.

...could'nt be without it now.

Better to grab dock icons in .png format.

128x128 ico files work just fine. 

I personally don't see the point of converting ico to png .......... either format works well. To each his own.

Absolutely you can use both .ico and png files, even though I only use pngs...

yes you can.

and if your shortcut on the dock is using the ico for whatever your shortcut is, it will automatically change if you use iconpackager to apply a set.

Personally...I use the png format....they just seem to be clearer and since I started using png's I just prefer to stay consistent. Plus I can see the preview of a png much better than an ico.

Wreckless...isn't it great when a little tool like that actually works great as well!

ok thank you everyone!

Wreckless...isn't it great when a little tool like that actually works great as well!

Indeed ...

You know, I just noticed that when I replied last night I said "IconPackager uses .png icons" ?!   ...Idiot me.

I meant the dock's use .png's ...but as Koasati and others have said, you can use both. He's right about the 128x128 icons working well. I'd just never tried them at that size. First ones I tried were 32x32, and looked terrible for some reason ..so I stuck with .png's from then on.

apologies for the misinformation ...I'll just go back to my corner now.   

 

 

 

Interesting little glitch [or something] just happened as I was posting the above ...as I clicked on "post comment" a little box popped up, which said "Sorry, but you cannot reply within the next 31 seconds"

...so I waited, but what/why was that?

Never come across that one before...   

It's to stop spammers   

He's right about the 128x128 icons working well.

256x256 works me also.
Yes, I know. Really no reason to convert for ODock,  But the conversion also allows me to mess around with 'icons' in DTX - using icon resize to get the size I want is easiear for me.

as I clicked on "post comment" a little box popped up, which said "Sorry, but you cannot reply within the next 31 seconds"

Eric...I had that the other day as well. But how is this suppose to stop spammers?

a lot of spamming is done automatically.

the bot posts and moves on.

the delay would keep it from posting beaucoup spams at once.

If it's a person, it would slow them down.

just a guess.