Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon
From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: collecting icons
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.130928.28094@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
References: <2869@s2.Morgan.COM> <474@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 13:09:28 GMT
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Michael Roper <roper@nwnexus.UUCP> writes:
>> I have icons in files with filetypes of .EXE, .ICO and .DLL
>> Is there anyway to combine these into one single bigger file?

> The only way to do this is with hDC Icon Designer.  It will 
> allow you to extract the icons from any Windows .exe, .dll, or
> .ico file and use them to create an icon library that can be
> used by Program Manager.

Strictly speaking, not correct.  Icons can be extracted from .EXEs and
.DLL using the ViewIcon/GetIcon programs recently posted to c.b.i.p,
and combined to DLLs using the Windows SDK.  Of course most people
do not have access to an SDK, but it *is* an alternative.

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