Icon Packs

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Starting with Phex 3.0 support for multiple custom icon packs is available. This adds an easy way to customize the look of Phex.

Create your own IconPack

This little guide should help you to create your own IconPack. In this guide $PHEX_HOME references your Phex installation folder.

• Create a directory called 'ext' in your Phex installation folder.
• Create a file called iconpack.list in the just created $PHEX_HOME/ext directory.
• Add a single line to the iconpack.list file:

Icon Pack Example = example.Icons

• Create a directory called 'example' in the $PHEX_HOME/ext directory.
• Add a custom image file with the name example.png to the just created $PHEX_HOME/ext/example directory.
• Download the Phex 3 icon pack definition file Icons.properties and save it in the $PHEX_HOME/ext/example directory.
• Open the file and look for the line starting with Search.Tab
• Replace the line with the following:

Search.Tab = /example/example.png

• Start Phex, open the User Interface Options and set the icon pack to Icon Pack Example
• Restart Phex
• You should now see your custom image as the icon for the Search tab.

The 'iconpack.list' file

• Each line in the file represents a single icon pack definition.
• The format of a line is: <Icon Pack Name> = <Resource Path>
• You can choose any name for the icon pack.
• The resource path a '.' separated path relative from the 'ext' directory to the definition file of the icon pack.

The 'Icons.properties' file

• Each line in file represents a association between a icon identifier and the path to the icon file.
• The format of a line is: <identifier> = <icon path>
• The identifiers are defined by the Phex team and should not be modified.
• The icon path is a full absolut path from the 'ext' directory to the icon file.