Icon Editor: 4 Writing Source Code

When the icon is finished, make sure it's saved (File->Save), and then choose "Write Source Code" from the Icon Menu. Follow these steps to get source code:

Enter a DOS 8.3 filename for the source file
To write only the current format, leave the "Formats" group at "Current Format"
To write source for all the formats, choose "All Formats"
Select GOC source (assembler is used in-house)

A dialog should appear when the source code has been written, saying "Source Code Written Successfully". If a problem is encountered in creating or writing a file, check the permissions on your document directory, and make sure you have enough disk space for the text file (only a few hundred bytes should be necessary).

The file should appear in your document directory. It's a text file with GOC moniker source code. This source code can be included in your application after you make the following changes:

The formats for the icon will have names like "Moniker0". You should give them appropriate names.
The monikers must be placed in a resource. You could place them between statements like:

@start APPMONIKERRESOURCE, data;

@end APPMONIKERRESOURCE;

In your .gp file, this resource should have the attributes "lmem, read-only, shared".

You may wish to add the line "style = tool;" for icons that are going to be used as toolbox UI, to assist the specific UI in deciding how to draw them.
Your .goc file must #include <gstring.h>, an include file in which the graphics string data structures used to describe visual monikers are described. (Esp programs include gstring.def .)

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