Scratch

The cat icon? It's the default icon for scratch's window and the icon in taskbar etc.

Anybody else seeing this issue?  It's the first I've heard of it.

I assume that you are working with Scratch 1.4 on Windows 7?

Paddle2See wrote:

Anybody else seeing this issue?  It's the first I've heard of it.

I assume that you are working with Scratch 1.4 on Windows 7?

Happens on Vista with me. Maybe MIT forgot to package the .ico file?

Sometimes I get this issue, sometimes after a clean install of Scratch it works right, sometimes it doesn't.

gershmer wrote:

Sometimes I get this issue, sometimes after a clean install of Scratch it works right, sometimes it doesn't.

http://gershmer.net/filetypes.png

Nope, I reinstalled Scratch and even formated my computer.
I think they just forgot to add C:\Program Files\Scratch\Icons\project.ico,0 file to the installer.

fg123 wrote:

OK. Try this:
Go to Control Panel,
Click on Folder Options
Go to File Types
See if there is a sb extension called Scratch Project,
if yes, see the icon, if not cat, change to cat
if no, add a sb Scratch project extension with the cat icon

Nope. I will try installing Scratch 1.2.2 and copy the ico to the directory of 1.4.

Last edited by Scratch412 (2009-12-05 18:27:43)

johnm wrote:

Hi, all.

The installer needs to make several Windows registry entries to associate icons with Scratch project and sprite files. To do that, it needs system administrator privileges.

If you are not an administrator, the Scratch installer will prompt you for the administrator password during installation. The installer will still install Scratch if you do not have administrator privileges, but it can't make the necessary registry entries. This sounds like the problem some of you are seeing.

It's possible that supplying the administrator password during the installation process does not under Vista and/or Windows 7. (It does work under Windows XP.) Try logging in as the system admin BEFORE running the Scratch installer.

Good luck!

    -- John (for the Scratch Team)

I have admin privs, and sometimes I still get the icon problem. I am on WinXP if that matters.

johnm wrote:

Hi, all.

The installer needs to make several Windows registry entries to associate icons with Scratch project and sprite files. To do that, it needs system administrator privileges.

If you are not an administrator, the Scratch installer will prompt you for the administrator password during installation. The installer will still install Scratch if you do not have administrator privileges, but it can't make the necessary registry entries. This sounds like the problem some of you are seeing.

It's possible that supplying the administrator password during the installation process does not under Vista and/or Windows 7. (It does work under Windows XP.) Try logging in as the system admin BEFORE running the Scratch installer.

Good luck!

    -- John (for the Scratch Team)

Hi John, the admin privileges will only be needed on Vista and 7 XP does not matter. But if you follow the previous post the instructions should work.

Scratch412 wrote:

The Scratch need to extract a Scratch icon to %installdirectory%\Scratch\Icons\scratch.ico,1

Thanks for trying to help out, but keep in mind that this topic is pretty old - if you want to help out, why not post in a newer topic?

I have the same problem in Windows Vista Home Premiun 64-bit.

Both Scratch and MS Small Basic share the same *.sb extension, but opening the files directly opens them in Scratch, since it's set as the default program for that extension. No Scratch icon though. 
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Scratch412 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Anybody else seeing this issue?  It's the first I've heard of it.

I assume that you are working with Scratch 1.4 on Windows 7?

Yeah, I am running it on Windows 7 Home Premium 32Bit

I have Scratch 1.4 running on Windows 7 Starter, so I don't get the glitch on my computer. I have no idea why the glitch is happening, though, since I havn't had this glitch...