# Loading icons

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-icons/6492>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Created:** [May 16, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-icons/6492 "2013-05-16T00:11:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chuckcoughlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@chuckcoughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chuckcoughlin)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-icons/6492/1 "2013-05-16T00:11:32Z")

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Is there any way either via Java or python to load icons from an external file? The issue is that we would like to distribute our application as an Ignition project, but any special graphics that it requites are stored in the internal database - and thus are not part of the project.

— chuck

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**Author:** ![chuckcoughlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@chuckcoughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chuckcoughlin)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/loading-icons/6492/2 "2013-06-06T20:41:01Z")

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Guess this is a silly concept as I didn’t realize that you can drag and drop an entire directory hierarchy of icons onto the Designer’s icon manager. What could be simpler.