Where do all these advanced looking icons come from? How can you get all of these colors for shading? I HAVE NO CREATIVITY WITH ICONS!!!
Where do all these advanced looking icons come from? How can you get all of these colors for shading? I HAVE NO CREATIVITY WITH ICONS!!!
1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette
Some icon editors...
Most of the are just re-sized images, but some are created using programs made for this. One trial version(***** it with ********* ) is called IconForge.
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>> Most of the are just re-sized images <<
How would you resize an image (say bmp) and then use an icon format to use in your program? Could I do this with MSVC++?
1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette
Hi Garfield
The simple answer is: yes you can. You will need info on icon formats, here's msdn:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...msdn_icons.asp
This should give you the information you need to make a start.
Also take a look at the ExtractIcon API fn (ExtractIconEx too); it can extract icons from exe's, dll's, bitmaps - any file that contains icon resources.
Good luck.
Thanks, buddy!
1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette
Make a bitmap 64x64 pixels, draw a little smiley face in it. Then rename it to .ico
Wow! Ain't it pretty?
That's all you need to do?
1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette
Yup....I think you are limited to 256 colours thoughOriginally posted by Garfield
That's all you need to do?
>>Make a bitmap 64x64 pixels, draw a little smiley face in it. Then rename it to .ico<<
Although you can do this, it is still a bitmap and not an icon which has a different file format. There appears to be no limit to the number of colours used and larger images are 'shrunk to fit'. Still, if all you are looking for is a quick fix, then that may be all you need.
(biggest icon I ever made was 32x32 with a full 32 bit colour table weighing in at a hefty 64MB - which was, of course unintentional. Made me laugh, all the same)
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There is a nice, ez to use Freeware tool called Bmp2Ico that u can download from http://www.download.com that turns bmp files into ico and changes them into the nessisary colors etc
