Extraction of icons from DLLs for CTBs

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zer0
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Extraction of icons from DLLs for CTBs

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Fiddling with icons for CTBs, I remembered that shell32.dll has a really nice collection of icons already well-sized for large CTBs. I know that in Windows Explorer it's possible to change a shortcut's icon by navigating to a file and any icons that are available within that file will be displayed in a rectangular gallery as per screenshot below
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Can this please be made possible in XYplorer too?
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Stefan
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Re: Extraction of icons from DLLs for CTBs

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zer0 wrote:Can this please be made possible in XYplorer too?
What? the use of the icon's or the dialog?

Those icons can be browsed and used with XY:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 891#p36891

other Icon viewer/extractors are listed here f.ex.:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 793#p36793

zer0
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Re: Extraction of icons from DLLs for CTBs

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Stefan wrote:What? the use of the icon's or the dialog?

Those icons can be browsed and used with XY:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 891#p36891

other Icon viewer/extractors are listed here f.ex.:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 793#p36793
The dialogue. It provides a very good visual representation of those icons and saves the hassle of working out a particular icon's number. There are 80 of them in shell32.dll after all :wink: Also, it's unknown what icons in an individual DLL look like so without a graphical view it's pretty much trial and error to find a suitable one.
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