Trouble creating dynamic icons.

ID:2146545
 
Sep 11 2016, 10:05 am
I'm trying to do something nice and simple. I've done it a hundred times before, yet it's not working, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Code:
var/icon/i = new('exampleicon.dmi',"examplestate")
user << output(i,"default.exampleoutputgrid")
user << output("Test Message","default.exampleoutputgrid")
user << i
usr << "Test Message"


Problem description:
No icon appears in the grid, or the output, yet the text appears perfectly! It just puts an empty line where the icon should go. What am I doing wrong?
Sep 11 2016, 10:18 am
Usually, when you have an icon that you want to be displayed, you need to convert it to a resource with fcopy_rsc(). There are times when this is done automatically for you, such as when you set an atom's icon directly to an /icon object, but there are other times where you have to do it explicitly.
var
    icon/i = ...
    r = fcopy_rsc(i)

When you want to display an icon in an Output element, you have to use the \icon text macro, like so:
user << "\icon[r]"
Sep 11 2016, 10:28 am
Hmm... that seems to work, but the icon is showing up tiny. Is there any way to make it show a full sized icon, like when you output an obj or mob?
Sep 11 2016, 11:08 am
In response to Maxiemo
You could always look up the icon text macro in the DM Reference that's built into Dream Maker.