FlameRobin Files

FlameRobin 26.6.4 focuses on icon quality and dark mode fidelity: the original 2006 vector artwork is now the canonical application icon, and the icon system automatically adapts to Windows light and dark themes at runtime.

🎨 Authentic FlameRobin Logo Restored as SVG

The classic FlameRobin icon — originally drawn in Adobe Illustrator 12 by Stefano Pennuto in 2006 — has been faithfully converted from its PostScript EPS source (frlogo_right.eps) into a proper scalable SVG.

All five vector shapes are extracted verbatim from the original EPS path data and CMYK colour separations:

The SVG is vector-native and renders crisp at any DPI — 16 px taskbar thumbnails, 32 px title bars, 256 px Alt+Tab previews, and beyond.

🌙 Windows Dark Mode Icon Support

ArtProvider now calls wxSystemSettings::GetAppearance().IsDark() — the same API already used throughout FlameRobin's style manager — to automatically select the correct icon variant at startup:

Light mode (flamerobin.svg): the original black badge against light window backgrounds — full contrast, no changes needed.

Dark mode (flamerobin_dark.svg): two targeted adjustments keep the icon legible on dark (~#202020) backgrounds:

• A white outer halo ring (r = 55.5, stroke-opacity = 0.55) around the badge creates clear separation from the dark window chrome.
• The beak is switched to white — the black beak was invisible against the dark badge on dark backgrounds.

Extensible _dark.svg convention

loadBitmapBundleFromFile() now resolves <name>_dark.svg before <name>.svg when dark mode is active. This is a general mechanism: any existing or future icon can gain a dark-mode override simply by dropping a <name>_dark.svg file into the svg/ images directory — no C++ changes required.

🐛 Other Fixes & Improvements

• Build fix — MetadataItemPropertiesPanel: Fixed a compilation error caused by a call to the removed doClose() method; replaced with doHide() to match the current wxWidgets API.
• Firebird security database resilience: MetadataItemPropertiesFrame now gracefully handles uninitialized or unavailable Firebird security databases, avoiding crashes and spurious error dialogs when the security database is not yet configured.
• Distinct tree-view icons: The database browser tree now uses four separate SVG icons — Home, Server, Connected Database, and Disconnected Database — making it immediately clear which nodes are live connections and which are offline, especially when managing multiple servers simultaneously.
• XPM/PNG resource cleanup: Removed all remaining legacy XPM pixmaps and embedded PNG bitmaps along with their now-unused #include directives, reducing binary size and eliminating the last low-resolution raster icons from the codebase.

Changelog

For the full history see the commit log.