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webfork wrote:Just found a great use for this program when submitting programs to the database:
Launch program and navigate the file manager to a given EXE file
Right-click on the file, select View and choose Dll Inspector from the submenu
In the window that appears, click on the 32x32 icon and choose Export Selected Image as below:
Save the PNG file to upload to the new entry (ideally use a program like PNGOptimizer to help reduce file size)
Previously I was using a rather lengthy process with Windows Explorer, Greenshot, and RIOT to get files down to 32x32 so this discovery is a huge time saver for perfectly-sized icons.
webfork, this can be made with almost any icon editors (Greenfish Icon Editor Pro and IcoFX, both in the database, come to mind). Just open the .exe, .dll, etc. with them and you are ready to go. With the advantage that you can make some retouches if necessary.
Midas wrote:I'll join with my system for icon extraction: drag and drop the executable to a yaPed BeCyIconGraber (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=20928) and save to multi-paged ICO. <br sab="730"><br sab="731">But I like Baas' (above, because PNG) so will try it...
BeCyIconGraber can do that too...
BTW, there seems to be a problem with BeCyIconGrabberPortable config file (yaP).
BTW, there seems to be a problem with BeCyIconGrabberPortable config file (yaP).
Yep, you're right Baas. Just never even did notice. As for the launcher problem, after checking I realized I'm using an obsolete v0.33 launcher that's working fine with the following config file: