Re: Icon Editor

de Sietse Fliege 05/02/2006 03:47

Al Klein wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2006 18:25:16 +0100, "Retired"
> <news(at)the(hyphen)edwards(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest a free icon editor. Preferably one which can save
>> as dll. files
>
> You want icons saved as .dll files? Icons are pictures, .dll files
> are libraries.

I think that "Retired" means that the program should also be able to
create storage files.
Windows suppports both dll's and icl's as icon libraries.
An icl is a (usually 16 bits) dll file containing a
resource (.rsrc) section.
Windows comes with a few 32 bits dll icon libraries, like moricons.dll
Windows XP also uses 32 Bit icons, 24 bit colour images with an 8 Bit
alpha (transparency) channel.
A program that lets you create 32 bits icons and store these in an icl
is e.g. @icon sushi http://www.towofu.net/soft-e/

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Cheers,
Sietse Fliege