Bmp to Ico, or Icon Editor

[leinad31]

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.

[Joacim Andersson]

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:

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

[leinad31]

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

[Joacim Andersson]

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.

[leinad31]

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.

[Joacim Andersson]

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

[leinad31]

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

[Joacim Andersson]

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.

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

[Xdream]

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

[alexandros]

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

[ImpShial]

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