Windows XP-style "luna" icons

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Aug 7th, 2002, 04:31 PM
Kenbuddy

Sorry -- my computer hung on the original post and I didn't realize that the message didn't get posted.

Does anybody know where I can get all of the .ico files for the most common Windows XP-style "luna" icons? The .ico files are cool because they contain the same image in several different sizes and color depths. I used Microangelo to extract icons from my C: drive (I do have Win XP installed), but many of the icons I need, like cut, copy, paste, back, forward, search, etc. did not get "picked up" for some reason. I have searched the Web for 3 days and have not found any useful resources on these luna icons, with the exception of a great article on MSDN about how to create them. But I want to try to use as many existing icons as I can and try to keep the "creation from scratch" thing to a minimum as I am not a graphic artist.

I have VB.NET standard edition. I was wondering if the more "pricey" editions of Visual Studio .NET have all of these icons available?

Thanks,
Kenbuddy
Aug 10th, 2002, 05:12 AM
redwave

You can get the luna icon from
x:\windows/system32/shell32.dll

where x = your harddisk drive

hope that i help you
Aug 10th, 2002, 05:13 AM
redwave

You can get the luna icon from
x:\windows/system32/shell32.dll (where x = your harddisk drive
)

open the dll file with your icon program
then you can get the icon

hope that i help you
Aug 10th, 2002, 05:15 AM
redwave

but i don't know i way to but 32-bit XP Icon Format in VB.NeT
Dec 6th, 2002, 06:31 AM
mralston

Download a copy of Microangelo. You can use its Librarian program to open up an icon resource (an exe, dll or a few other file types) and save which ever icon you're after to a .ico file.

http://www.impactsoft.com/muangelo/t...r/prodinfo.htm
Dec 6th, 2002, 08:14 AM
PT Exorcist

Quote:

I used Microangelo to extract icons
Dec 6th, 2002, 06:26 PM
mralston

Now doesn't that make me look stupid. I swear I did read the original post, honest! :(
Dec 7th, 2002, 01:28 AM
Kenbuddy

Wow. New life to an old thread! :)

I tried 3 different icon editors, including Microangelo, and I decided on ArtIcons Pro as the one to actually pay for and use. Out of all the icon editors, it had the best tools for doing gradient shadings, which is something I liked. Check it out:

http://www.aha-soft.com/

As for the program I was working on, I decided to go with 256-color gifs, so I designed all the icons first using ArtIcons Pro, then I extracted the 8-bit GIFs from the icon files and saved the GIFs in a separate folder. I also designed and extracted 4-bit GIFs to include in my program for those with chromatically-challenged systems, but I am having second thoughts about the necessity of this. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ken