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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Icons, EXEs and DLLs
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.233528.6802@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 90 23:35:28 GMT
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Joe Morris <jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org> writes:
> A little poking [in ICON.DLL] with Norton found the names (as was
> suggested by a previous posting here.  [...]

Now, I found icondraw.zip on one of the ftp sites (don't ask me which 
one!), and I've been able to create some nice icons for DOS apps and
some Excel/WinWord applications.  However, I'd like to use some of the
icons in .EXE files (PD only!) and/or .DLLs as starting points for
making new icons.  Also, wading through large .DLLs to pick icons is
rather tiresome.

So, is there an easy way to pull out an Icon resource out of an .EXE or
a .DLL (which are really the same thing)?  It doesn't sound like it
*should* be hard, but I don't know how to go about it.  I have the Win2
SDK, if that helps (but probably not, since icons are now 16 colors).

Could somebody tell me where to find a description of the DLL format?

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