Request : save multipage icons as *.ICL…

[ouistiti]

Request : save multipage icons as *.ICL…

Since we can now create a multipage as *.ico, containing a lot of icons, is it possible to plan a saving as *.ICL instead *.ico ?

- Subsidiary question : How to place the icons in a certain order - for instance matching with a template, and NOT sorted in any standard mode - ?

Friendly

Paul

[Clo]

Hello Paul !

- Indeed, I support such a request; it could be very useful !
- However, it might be a supplemental capability : we need still the *.ico output format to create multiple icons, then use these icons (when some are necessary) in a *.ICL building…
- So, using the same function & dialogue, we could create an ICL and -eventually- the multiple icons it contains without any overpriced special application.

• Like you point out above, the snag is to impose an order for the icons in the ICL… I think specially to the Total Commander ICLs, where this order must be respected absolutely… Further (dream, dream… ), maybe a use in XnView itself, i. e. for future extra customizable tool-bars or so ?
• Of course, the global structure of an ICL might be so different…

Pierre, please, let's know if such an option is possible to add easily.

Friendly,
Claude
Clo

[xnview]

Since we can now create a multipage as *.ico, containing a lot of icons, is it possible to plan a saving as *.ICL instead *.ico ?

Ok, i'll try to find information about structure of ICL...

[Clo]

Pierre

Hello !

Ok, I'll try to find information about structure of ICL…

- Thank you to consider the Paul's request.

- I guess it is not very different than a DLL structure, since (for a 16-bit one), we could use the same file in Total Commander 16-bit as *.DLL, and as *.ICL in TC 32-bits… You may get it HERE.
- Then, I suppose that it isn't very complicated for you to create a similar 32-bit structure

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[ouistiti]

2 Pierre

Thank you very much to study this improvement !
Like Clo points out above, the ICL output format might come as an addition, the current *.ico output format (multiple icons) is useful still and must be kept, of course.
The arrow-buttons in the dialogue allow to sort the files, but it's not very convenient when we have a lot of files… Moreover, when it's long, the full path fills the visible part of the list, I think it must be shortened at the display, in order to see the file-name directy - without use of the horizontal scroll-bar- …
So, as a second constituent of that improvement, using a template to impose a file order should be great ...

[Clo]

Hello Paul !

…Moreover, when it's long, the full path fills the visible part of the list, I think it must be shortened at the display…

• This is right ! Just an example below :

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- Since we know very well which folder is used to create the multipage image, I guess the path could be someting like :
C:\XnView\ …\file.bmp in that case.

Friendly,
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

Since we can now create a multipage as *.ico, containing a lot of icons, is it possible to plan a saving as *.ICL instead *.ico ?

Ok, i'll try to find information about structure of ICL...

Knowing next to nil about programming, I'm certainly not trying to be a wise ass here. I just would like to share some information that I gathered on the net.

An .ICL file -- ICon Library, as used by icon editors like Microangelo -- is a renamed 16-bit Windows .DLL (an NE format executable) which typically contains nothing but a resource section. The ICL extension seems to be used by convention.

Q: What is an icon library file?
An icon library file is a good mean for storing icons and keeping them readable by Windows and icon extractor. Icon library files are given the .ICL extension and actually are standard 16-bit DLL library files with a .rsrc resource section only filled with icons. Windows and the most part of icon extractors recognize these libraries. Also note that icon libraries are not compressed.

What are .icl files?
.icl files are icon libraries. Technically they are resource DLLs with the file extension changed.

[Clo]

—> XnTriq

Hello, bonjour !

- Thanks a lot to kick up that topic !

• This matches pretty well with that I noticed above… more than seven months ago !

- Now, we can even extend these notices to 32-bit files : some 32-bit DLLs containing only icons can be renamed as *.ICL without any trouble ! That works exactly the same, I just checked that !

- They contain resources as :

Code: Select all

[Icon]
[Icon Group]
[301] --> [1]

• This last item is a kind of binary header giving the order of the icons (the marking off)…
- I'm not a programmer anymore, I just examined the resources using “My Little Finger”, a.k.a. “ResourceHacker”, a wonderful free tool, alas not improved and more developped…

Kind regards, cordialement,
Claude
Clo