XnView Software

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

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

ouistiti wrote: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...

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

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 ...

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

xnview wrote:

ouistiti wrote: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.

Wotsit.org wrote: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.

GConvert FAQ wrote: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.

Icon Empire FAQ wrote:What are .icl files?
.icl files are icon libraries. Technically they are resource DLLs with the file extension changed.

—> 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 : • 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