main.Icon = startup.Text

is it not possible to do soemthign liek this? have a textbox with the full pathname of the icon and then when it loads, the icon will be what you specified? the onyl way i know how to do this is to have 2 or more forms and then go

form1.icon=form2.icon

but thats crappy... is there another way i can do this without all the extra forms?

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