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    Alan Kilborn
    last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:14 PM

    I’ve always thought, WTF is that “Find result” window tab icon supposed to be?

    At actual size it looks like a black flagpole on the left, with a grey flag at half staff:

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    If I blow it up it doesn’t help:

    a673c200-5ab1-495b-88da-525aa038a471-image.png

    Any ideas on why it looks like it does, and couldn’t it be made to look better?

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      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by Ekopalypse Mar 31, 2020, 7:20 PM Mar 31, 2020, 7:18 PM

      @Alan-Kilborn
      isn’t that a binocular?

      And btw. I never noticed a icon as I use my find result window always docked
      on the bottom as a single window.

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        Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
        last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:27 PM

        @Ekopalypse

        Mine’s at the bottom too but it brings along a friend :-)

        2f6d73a1-1c29-4cee-8c4d-6a34e4c9a0d1-image.png

        Ah, binocular! Okay.

        But any chance of a “good look” for that is ruined with the black bar on the left. I don’t know, it’s just kind of “ugh”.

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          PeterJones
          last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:31 PM

          If you download the icon from https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/findResult.ico , you can zoom in slightly better.

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          It’s more obviously binoculars in that.

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            Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
            last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:39 PM

            @PeterJones said in Why does "Find result" window tab icon look like it does?:

            It’s more obviously binoculars in that.

            Sure. Maybe rephrase my original question to be “Why does it have to look so bad in Notepad++?” Now that I know it is binoculars, I remember seeing it in other programs, just not as badly rendered. :-)

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              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:41 PM

              These 16x16 images are not really beautiful, especially if they are shrunk even further .

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                PeterJones
                last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:46 PM

                So, the binocs are a 9x9 segment of a 16x16 icon, and then Notepad++ shrinks down the Y from 16 pixels to 14 pixels without scaling in X as well? (I am assuming that’s what .scaleY(14) does.) If that’s the case, I’m surprised it’s as good as it is. :-)

                Just think what it must look like on a high-DPI monitor. :-)

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                  Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                  last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:48 PM

                  @PeterJones said in Why does "Find result" window tab icon look like it does?:

                  high-DPI

                  You just said a bad word in Notepad++ land. :-(

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                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:53 PM

                    @Alan-Kilborn

                    I would vote for a strike for Peter because using the D… word

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                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:54 PM

                      Eko’s day for image posting!

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                        Ekopalypse
                        last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:55 PM

                        Too much time and nothing works as expected, results in gifs and gifs and even more gifs :-)

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