Re: Icon Editor

de "Retired" 05/02/2006 02:38

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.
I'm trying to get all my icons into one file (convenient, and saves H.D.
space)
A .dll file is one way of achieving this, probably there are others

Retired

"Sietse Fliege" <change_.invalid_to_.nl@sf.slownet.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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/
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Sietse Fliege
>