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  1. Feb 19th, 2002, 08:28 AM #1
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    Question 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.
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  2. Feb 19th, 2002, 08:51 AM #2
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    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.
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  3. Feb 20th, 2002, 06:39 PM #3
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    See this link.
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  4. Feb 21st, 2002, 03:40 AM #4
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    Cool Transparent ICON

    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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  6. Jul 5th, 2002, 08:56 AM #5
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    Icon2Icon

    try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.
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  7. Jul 5th, 2002, 09:03 AM #6
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    Icon2Icon

    try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.
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  8. Jul 5th, 2002, 09:46 AM #7
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    Icon2Icon

    try this program i made to convert an icon from a saved .exe file to a saved icon file.
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  9. Jul 5th, 2002, 09:53 AM #8
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    sorry about the repeated messages, but i am having problems uploading replies.
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