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This appears to be a “cut down” version. There are keys in the registry, such as “settings”, that have zero entries. SoftOrbits seem to have a trick by limiting the functionality of a program by omitting options in the main menus whilst still using the same program.
License canot be activated, gave error Activation key dont match for …..
Again, as always for SoftOrbits (activation of other programs via the Internet occurs) the following message appears:
Activation server connection error.Likely,
1) some settings need to be done in IE,
2) either you need to enable or disable some service
3) either you need to make the settings for the WiFi router
4) either the provider blocks the application activation addressI must be missing something… Program installed and registered without issues. I loaded an image file, selected a square area that I wanted to use and cropped it, thinking that would be the image used for the icon file. Nope.
I picked the option to create a “Window icon from image” (yes, they got the name of the OS wrong). A menu of different icon sizes appeared, I selected a few. Then the view changed. At left was a list of the icon sizes I picked, and most of the screen was a view of my icon-in-progress. Here is where I can move, rotate, change colors, paint, etc. But my image was larger than the icon frame (256 x 256). No way to scale my image to fit it. All I could do is select which part of my image would appear in the final icon. And I had the Image Size… settings set to stretch image and maintain aspect ratio (no option to fit image).
All downhill from this point… If I pick a smaller icon size, a smaller part of my image will fit it. So apparently, for each icon size desired, I need to pick different parts (or different amounts) of the image. Every icon created will look very different. Ok, so maybe that’s how these things are meant to work. I didn’t see anything obvious to complete the icon creation process, so I picked File > Save As… from the menus and created a .ico file.
When I open this with Photos (Windows 10’s built-in photo viewer), I see a black box. If I open in XNView, I get a popup saying the file contains multiple pages (good) but each page shows a grey rectangle with different types of borders. I tried another .ico file found on my PC and both programs showed me an image of an icon. XnView let me see different pages from that icon file. As I expected, each was basically the same image but with different amounts of detail.
I tried to replace an icon for a program with my new icon file. My image was not in the icon. I got a square white box with a transparent rectangle inside.
So the program doesn’t work the way I expected, I can work around that by scaling and cropping the image to different sizes in another program. But, I see no way to get all those merged into a single multi-page .ico file. But, since the saved output files are not usable, there’s no point in keeping this program.
Anyone else have a better experience (as I said, maybe I’m missing something here), or did Soft Orbits let us down on this one?
For “miki” : do NOT use “copy from clipboard” (!!!) – use simple “ctrl_C” , “ctrl_V” … (I had the same problem) …
Wrong key.
