NetBeans Platform Application - change Icon generated by Installer

Question

I developed an NetBeans Platform Application and generated a Windows installer. When I install the application I have the following Icon on the desktop:

Where do I change the icon in the settings of the project? In the branding of my NetBeans project, I changed all 3 application icons to my icon, but still I end up with the one above on the desktop.

Answer 1

I assume you changed the icon for /build/launcher/bin/.exe file.

This is most likely being overwritten with the default.

You can manually change the icon for the default executable here: /harness/launchers/app.exe

Checkout http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqExecutableIcon

The docs here say you can use a third-party tool - but i have never tried this.

Answer 2

padde's answer on How to change icon on mavenized netbeans project is to

• Applying changes with ReplaceVistaIcon on app.exe and app64.exe(more explanation can be found on How to change icon on Netbeans Project), I only needed to copy app.exe and app64.exe from "NetBeans\harness\launchers\" into "src\main\resources\"

Then in your pom.xml :

<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>

I 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.