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Changing the icons of default applications

Postby Pedantis » Wed May 22, 2013 6:36 pm

Hello everybody,
is there a known possibility to change the icons of pre-installed applications (like Run-Mat, Table, Recur,...)?

As far as I know, the icon is stored in the subheader of each application. Is this subheader changeable?

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Re: Changing the icons of default applications

Postby helder7 » Wed May 22, 2013 7:57 pm

The icons of pre-installed applications (like Run-Mat, Table, Recur,...) are stored in calculator OS (not in a file .g1a) so it is a bit difficult.

Change the icon of custom .g1a add-ins is possible.
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Re: Changing the icons of default applications

Postby Pedantis » Wed May 22, 2013 10:34 pm

Can't we just point to the address where the icon code is positioned and overwrite the specific values?

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Re: Changing the icons of default applications

Postby SimonLothar » Thu May 23, 2013 7:11 am

Pedantis wrote:Can't we just point to the address where the icon code is positioned and overwrite the specific values?
The icons reside in the flash memory. It cannot be simply overwritten like RAM.
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Re: Changing the icons of default applications

Postby gbl08ma » Fri May 24, 2013 8:21 pm

SimonLothar wrote:
Pedantis wrote:Can't we just point to the address where the icon code is positioned and overwrite the specific values?
The icons reside in the flash memory. It cannot be simply overwritten like RAM.

Flash memory can be overwritten (that's how the OS is updated), but the process is risky. We do at least know the OS checksums would need to be recalculated, but we don't know if that's enough... imagine there's a error in the newly crafted icon, the calc would crash when opening the Menu, rendering it unusable - nothing that emergency OS updater can't usually solve, but it's a lot of work associated with the risk of breaking the calculator.

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