Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!barryf From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: collecting icons Message-ID: <_}*=XA{@rpi.edu> Date: 15 Mar 91 15:54:31 GMT References: <2869@s2.Morgan.COM> <474@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1991Mar15.130928.28094@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: >Michael Roper 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. >[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] >[ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ] Once you have hundreds of beautiful color icons in one big DLL (for example) is there a way to "view" the file, other than one icon at a time in seriel? Has anyone developed a shareware product that displays a grid of 10 by 10 (i.e. 100) icons per screen? Maybe with a scroll bar for scrolling to the next row of ten icons? I realize that icons are not stored this way, but it would seem "trivial" (for someone else) to read in a hundred icons and display them as such. Thoughts, suggestions, references? barry -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+