[DUG] Icon

[Colin Johnsun]

+1 for IcoFX. No mucking about with scaling graphics. Just drop a
graphic image onto the canvas and it will scale it down to the size of
the icon (and still look decent!)

On 22 July 2010 08:30, Cameron Hart <Cameron.Hart at flowsoftware.co.nz> wrote:
> Use IcoFX for anything to do with ICOs.  It handles imported other formats
> to make them into icons.
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Jolyon Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 9:57 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: [DUG] Icon
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> As far as I can tell, Paint.NET (as of the 3.5.5 release at least) doesn’t
> support the ICO format either for reading or writing, which pretty
> effectively limits its usefulness for converting to/from ICO files.  J
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Eric A
> Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:38
> To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Icon
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> I use Paint .NET but prefer the GIMP (Windows) for graphics manipulation (I
> think that does the conversion too?)
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> Eric
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>> From: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz
>> To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
>> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:46:41 +1200
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] Icon
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>> I think it disappeared in later Delphi,
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>> I use any of IrfanView, PhotoFiltre, Paint.Net - all freeware - Irfanview
>> is a converter and viewer, the other two are excellent image editors and
>> convert too.
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>> What do others use?
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>> John
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>> From: "David" <delphi at 275a.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:14 AM
>> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [DUG] Icon
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>> > Hi,
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>> > Not sure about BDS2006 but many Delphis have "Alt->Tools->Image Editor"
>> > In there you can open the bitmap, copy it to clipboard, then make a new
>> > icon and paste the bitmap in
>> > then you just select the transparency colour and fill in the background.
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>> > Bob Pawley wrote:
>> >> Hi
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>> >> Can someone suggest a tool for converting a BMP to Icon?
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>> >> I don't suppose my BDS 2006 this capability??
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>> >> Bob
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