Bmp to Ico, or Icon Editor

Does anyone here have a small program for creating an Icon with a transparent background? The one I got from planetsource was incomplete. I tried making a 24x24 Bmp first in Paint, PhotoEditor and Photoshop (then renaming to Ico) but I couldn't make the background transparent.

I'll attach the pics in case someone has a program but it's too large to make available, or is licensed, he/she can convert it for me. :) A small prog would be nice though so I can also learn from the code.

Blank.bmp is supposed to be a transparent image with nothing in it. So if what I'm looking for in the ImageList isn't there I can return a blank transparent pic.

Put the images in an ImageList. Set the MaskColor property to the color you want to be transparent. Put a PictureBox on the form and use code simular to this:

VB Code:

Picture1.Picture = ImageList1.ListImages(1).ExtractIcon '<- change the index if needed
SavePicture Picture1.Picture, "c:\MyIcon.ico"

The one assigned to .Picture is ok. But the saved file loses the transparent background. :(

Hmmm... are you sure you've set the mask color correctly? Attached is an icon editor I made a few years ago, it's a bit limited since you can only save images of the size 32x32 with 16 colors. But it has a few other nice features: You can extract an icon from any file or grab one directly from the screen. You can also create icon libaries and export an iccn as a cursor files. You may also create ANI files with it. Full source code included.

Thanks. I'll look over the code later. 32x32 is fine. I'll have to redraw the image anyway with the colors of yor app.

You don't have to redraw the image, it will be converted to 16 colors when saved.

Still, I have to convert it to 32x32 and I finished doing so awhile ago. Image resize blurs the pic. Thanks again. :)

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Originally posted by leinad31
Still, I have to convert it to 32x32 and I finished doing so awhile ago. Image resize blurs the pic. Thanks again. :)

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Hmmm.... You could have just copied the bitmap and pasted it into a new icon, it wouldn't have stretched the image...

Hi leinad31

Try downloading Microangelo V5.5 somewhere on the net. It's a great iconeditor with many features and it's available as a trial version :)

Regards,
Xdream

i have the same problem and it is driving me nuts.
I have microangelo. I set as transparent the white color.
I set the mask color in the imagelist to White .But when it loads the menu icons are not transparent!

any help?
thanks

Try this:
vbAccelerator Complete Icon Editor and OCX

You can download the source for both the editor and the ocx.

NOTE: You need to download the vbAccelerator VB6 SSubTmr Binary file for most vbAccelerator projects to work. You can get it from the above link or from here:
VB6 SSubTmr Binary

Imp