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Dean
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Posted: 7th Dec 2002 07:24
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I'm tired, so I'll keep this short

just wondering if there's a way to extract a program's icon via the file functions in DB or VB

thanks
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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 7th Dec 2002 13:10
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i think you can

There is a program called res hack that does this.

I will see if i can find it for ya.

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Dean
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Posted: 7th Dec 2002 20:18
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thanks, but I was wondering if I could get the icon from a file using ''read byte'' in DB

I don't think it's possible though


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 8th Dec 2002 05:19
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yeah you can... you'll have to give me a while to translate the header from C++ use for a more DB friendly setup, but any icons in an EXE file you can grab.

Actual Icons are actually standard bitmaps with layers - so that might be of some interest.
Just gimme a while thou oki

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Dean
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Posted: 8th Dec 2002 06:07
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thanks Vegeta


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 8th Dec 2002 09:20
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oki what i have so far so you can decode the icons

- Header
-- Reserved 2byte Word
-- Type 2byte Word
-- Count 2byte Word
-- Icons (16Byte Icon)


Reserved should always be 0
Type should always be 1
Count is the Number of Icons to look for
yeah the titles were self explainitory really but just in case hehee


- Icon Data
-- Width 1Byte Byte
-- Height 1Byte Byte
-- ColourCount 1Byte Byte
-- Reserved 1Byte Byte
-- Planes 2Byte Word
-- BitCount 2Byte Word
-- TotalSize 4Byte Dword|Long
-- ImageOffset 4Byte Dword|Long


Width & Height are in Pixels (should be multiple of 2)
ColourCount is the number of colours used as its a 256 Colour Palette (usually windows colours)
Reserved should always be 0
Planes is the number of colour planes there are
TotalSize is the total size of the Icon in Bytes
ImageOffet is Offset to Icon data in Bytes


oki well thats all for now ... there is mre but i'm being moaned at
i'll post up the rest in the morning

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Dean
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Posted: 9th Dec 2002 01:24
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great! thanks!

now, is there a way to read an EXE file to find the program's icon?


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 9th Dec 2002 06:06
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hehee i slept in late today ... i only woke up an hour ago (bad Raven)

I'll get on the rest in a min, like the actual pixel data and the placement within a Windows EXE

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 15:03
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oh man i'm so freakin abscent minded (^_^) sorry there Naz...

oki well here's the rest only took me 2days to remember
hehee ... decided to place it within a downloadable txt as it was far easier to setup everything to be more understandable.

now i kinda got confused about a few things about the exe, so i'll continue with that later but sent you 3.1 format which is Win32 compatible and also MSDOS

http://members.lycos.co.uk/timesaga/info.zip

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 15:04
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crap i forgot about the external link crap
... http://members.lycos.co.uk/timesaga/phpBB2
i'll upload there

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Dean
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Posted: 14th Dec 2002 00:15
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Thanks a bunch, that's just what I needed!

Nice forum, too BTW


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 14th Dec 2002 19:58
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yeah i likes it... when lycos isn't down lol which right now is almost every otherday

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