How to use custom icons for SAP ECTR

Customers might want to replace the standard icons of SAP ECTR with own icons.

The standard icons for SAP ECTR are located in the "images.jar" file:

%INSTDIR%\basis\classes

The mapping is defined in the „standard_icons.txt“ file:

%INSTDIR%\basis\aux-files

It would be possible to replace the icons there, but this is not recommended!

In this example we want to replace the dirty flag overlay icon with a red exclamation mark icon.

Like the standard icons, the custom icons have to be stored in a "images.jar" file. The easiest way is copying the standard "images.jar" to

%INSTDIR%\customize\classes

With a zip software (e.g. WinZip) it is possible to replace the standard icons with custom icons.

Please note, all custom icons have to be in png format!

Some icons need to have different sizes, small / medium / large with 16x16 / 24x24 / 32x32 (Pixel).

Those have to be stored in the corresponding folders in the .jar file.

Also the custom icons can be stored in a custom folder directory.

For that reason the „standard_icons.txt“ is used

The function for the dirty flag is:

tree.doc.dirty

The {0}/ prefix is used if an icon should appear in different sizes.

For this it is only necessary to add a line to „customer_icons.txt“.

Path: %INSTDIR%\customize\aux-files

The line has the following schema:

function = iconname

If the icons are stored in directories the path has to be given.