Icons in 9iDS

I've tried just about everything I've read but still cannot get the runtime to display the images for my iconic buttons. Can someone please give me ALL of the EXACT required changes to the various config files ? I would prefer to use the standalone gif files rather than the jar method in my development environment (but I've tried and failed with the jar method so far also).
Calendar90 from the demo uses a gif for an iconic button and it works properly in the runtime on this same machine, but of course the demo configuration differs from the default.
my iDS Home is E:\Ora9iDS_Home
my FMB's and FMX's are in E:\myforms
my ICO's and GIF's are in E:\myforms\images

Thanks. (btw, jar.exe is located in jdk\bin, not in jdk. Also, that should be f90all_jinit.jar, not f90all_jini.jar). I've tried this approach before, and tried it again today without success, until I finally came to the realization that both CASE and file extensions for the gif files are critical. This is no doubt obvious to someone experienced in the environment, but is not at all intuitive otherwise.
Forms Builder of course does not care about case. However, before "jar"ring the gif files, the case of the filename of the actual gif files apparently must match exactly to what was specified in Forms Builder. And if in Form Builder you left off the file extension (which is the preferred approach, because Builder cannot display the GIF files but will find and display an ICO file with the same primary name), make sure that the files that you are "jar"ring end with .gif, not .GIF, otherwise the iconic images will not be displayed at runtime.
In trying to migrate an existing app, the original icon files happened to have uppercase names. I converted them to gif's that also happened to have all uppercase names. However in Form Builder they were specified with lowercase names. I can't begin to tell you how much grief this caused me.
I would suggest that this topic be documented more thoroughly so that others can avoid this trap. Hopefully it will be covered in the forthcoming white paper.

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