Creating Icons

Hi all.

I'm trying to program my own icon editor in VB. My problem is saving the icon in the right format. If I just use SAVEPICTURE it's saved in BMP format. Further more it's missing the transparent color.
I have tried adding the image to an imagelist and then use extracticon, and the save it. This works fine, but my problem is, that i would like to be able to use lots of color, and the imagelist changes some of my colors.

So my question is : Does anyone know how to save a standard picture in ICO format with transparent background and everything.

I have also been playing around a little with CREATEICONINDIRECT and CREATECOMPATIBLEBITMAP but I can't get that to work.

try looking at http://www.wotsit.org for file format information.. it's probably easy enough for icon files to just write a save routine yourself.

See this link.

I have the same problem, the program I wrote can create icons alright but I can`t get it to make them transparent. Any help would be much appreciated on that part...

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try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.

try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.

try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.

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