如何更改Mavenized Netbeans应用程序的图标

Question

I have a Mavenized Netbeans Platform application, and i have followed THIS guide for create an Installer of it.

Now i wanna change the icons of my app, but i don't know how to do.

I have tried some different solutions:

1. Changing the icon with ReplaceVistaIcon in THIS way (not a great solution) in the dir C:\\Program Files\\NetBeans 8.0\\harness and in .m2\\repository\\org\\codehaus\\mojo\\nbm-maven-harness\\7.3\\nbm-maven-harness-7.3.jar ; after installation, the icons returns at default version.
2. Using Maven in THIS way; same effect.
3. Now i wanna try to create a .lnk with the installer (using the correct image) if the user have selected "Create Desktop icon", and i have follow THIS guide, but i don't find the window where the CheckBox is showed.

Any solution is acceptable, the important thing is that it works

Answer 1

What I have done to achieve this is a mixture of everything you tried.

I indeed changed the icons through ReplaceVistaIcon from the harness. I then placed them inside a directory residing in my Maven Netbeans Application, in my case application/src/main/resources/binaries . Afterwards I added the element binDirectory to the configuration of the Maven build plugin of this module:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>nbm-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <brandingToken>${brandingToken}</brandingToken>
                <etcConfFile>src/main/resources/myconfig.conf</etcConfFile>
                <binDirectory>src/main/resources/binaries</binDirectory>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

This is the way it works for me. I agree, that changing the binaries to contain the right icon is not really the cleanest way. If anyone has a nicer way to achieve this, please let us know.

Answer 2

Excellent solution. Did the job for me, thanks padde!

As you said padde, after applying changes with ReplaceVistaIcon on app.exe and app64.exe(more explanation can be found on https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/icons_for_netbeans_platform_applications ), I only needed to copy app.exe and app64.exe from "NetBeans\\harness\\launchers\\" into "src\\main\\resources\\"

I also noticed that app.exe and app64.exe are different in size from NetBeans 7.3 and 7.3.1. But matches between 7.3.1 and 8.0.2. I believe that we should use the app.exe from NetBeans version that is matching with our project's NetBeans version.