| IconsExtract v1.47 - EXE/DLL/OCX/CPL icon grabber/extractor Copyright (c) 2003 - 2010 Nir Sofer |
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Description
The IconsExtract utility scans the files and folders on your computer, and extract the icons and cursors stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL, and in other file types. You can save the extracted icons to ICO files (or CUR files for cursors), or copy the image of a single icon into the clipboard.System Requirements
Windows operating system: Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, or Windows Vista/7/2008/8.x/10 .IconsExtract can only extract icons from 32-bit executable files.It cannot extract icons from 16-bit files.
Versions History
| Date | Version | Description |
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| 26/09/2010 | 1.47 |
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| 13/04/2009 | 1.46 |
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| 03/05/2008 | 1.45 |
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| 07/03/2008 | 1.44 |
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| 22/02/2008 | 1.43 |
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| 21/12/2007 | 1.42 |
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| 08/04/2006 | 1.41 |
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| 12/06/2005 | 1.40 |
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| 21/05/2005 | 1.32 |
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| 01/12/2004 | 1.31 |
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| 04/09/2003 | 1.30 | Added command-line support. |
| 06/06/2003 | 1.21 | Automatically saves your last settings (windows size, your last search options, and more) and loads them in the next time that you use this utility. |
| 30/04/2003 | 1.20 | Added search filter (Icon size and number of colors). |
| 16/04/2003 | 1.10 |
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| 02/04/2003 | 1.00 | First release. |
License
This utility is released as freeware. You can freely use and distribute it. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package including the readme.txt, without any modification !Disclaimer
The software is provided 'AS IS' without any warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental,consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.Using the IconsExtract utility
This utility is a standalone executable, and it doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just run the executable (iconsext.exe) and start using it.Immediately after you run this utility, the 'Search For Icons' dialog box will be appeared. In this window, you should select the files or folders that you want to scan, and the resource typesyou want to find (icons, cursors, or both).You can also filter unneeded icons and get only icons that contains images with specific size and number of colors.
You have 2 main search options:
- Select only single file. For example: C:WINNTSystem32shell32.dll
You can manually type the filename in the text-box, or select it from a dialog box by clicking the 'Browse Files' button. - Select multiple filenames by using wildcard characters (? and *).
You can select the folder that you want to scan by clicking the 'Browse Folders' button. If you check the 'Search Subfolders' check-box,all the subfolders of the main folder will be scanned also.For example: if you type 'c:*.*' in the filename text-box, and check the 'Search Subfolders' option, the IconsExtract utility will search for icons in all folders and files of your 'C:' drive.
Notice: Searching for icons in an entire drive might take a few minutes,and consume a fair amount of system resources. However, you can alwaysstop the search by pressing the 'Esc' key or by clicking the 'Stop'menu item in the top-left corner of the window.
In order to start the icons searching, press the 'Search For Icons' button. IconsExtract will search for icons according to your selectionin the 'Search For Icons' window.After the search is finished, the extracted icons will be appearedin the main window of IconsExtract utility.
Saving icons into ICO files
In order to save the extracted icons into ICO files:- Select the icons that you want to save. You can press Ctrl+A in orderto select all extracted icons.
- Choose the 'Save Selected Icons' in the 'File' menu, or press Ctrl+S.
- In the 'Save Selected Icons' window, type the folder for saving the icons files (You can also select it by using the Browse button)
- Press the 'Save Icons' button. All the selected icons will be saved into the folder you have selected.
Copy a single icon to the clipboard
You can also copy a single image of icon, and paste it to another application. There are 2 options to do it:- Copy icon in standard dimensions (16 X 16 or 32 X 32): Select a single icon in the main window, and press Ctrl+C.
- Copy an image of icons in other sizes: double click on a single icon, and the properties window, select specific image, and press the 'Copy Selected Image' button.
Searching more icons
You can always make another search by using the 'Search For Icons' option in the File menu. You can also extract the icons of specificfile simply by dragging it from explorer window into the main window of IconsExtract utility.Command-Line Support
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Starting from version 1.30, you can extract icons from files by running IconsExtract with /save option.| source file | The file containing the icons you want to extract |
| save folder | The destination folder the save the extracted icons/cursors |
| -icons | Specify this option if you want to extract the icons from the file. |
| -cursors | Specify this option if you want to extract the cursors from the file. |
| -asico | Specify this option if you want to save cursors as .ico files. |
Example:
iconsext.exe /save 'c:winntsystem32shell32.dll' 'c:icons' -icons -cursors
You can also use -scanpath parameter to start IconsExtract user interface with the specifiedpath or wildcard, for example:
iconsext.exe -scanpath 'c:windowssystem32*.dll'
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Translating IconsExtract to other languages
In order to translate IconsExtract to other language, follow the instructions below:- Run IconsExtract with /savelangfile parameter:
iconsext.exe /savelangfile
A file named iconsext_lng.ini will be created in the folder of IconsExtract utility. - Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
- Translate all string entries to the desired language.Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
- After you finish the translation, Run IconsExtract, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run IconsExtract without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.
Feedback
If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to nirsofer@yahoo.com| Download IconsExtract (in Zip file) |
| Download self-install executable for installing IconsExtract with uninstall support |
IconsExtract is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of IconsExtract, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'iconsext_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed IconsExtract utility.
| Language | Translated By | Date | Version |
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| Arabic | Shanaab | 26/01/2015 | |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Siegfried Janke | 26/09/2010 | |
| Bulgarian | Starichok | 29/01/2015 | |
| Croatian | RandomGuyfromCroatia | 21/12/2015 | |
| Czech | Damned | 03/12/2013 | |
| Danish | Aske Uhd Pennerup | 04/06/2005 | |
| Dutch | Jan Verheijen | 28/09/2010 | 1.47 |
| Dutch | Sander Lambregts | 27/09/2008 | 1.45 |
| Finnish | Olli | 22/10/2007 | |
| French | Jean-Michel Gillion | 04/05/2008 | |
| French | aMadEUs | 29/09/2010 | 1.47 |
| Galician | Yako-_- | 21/07/2010 | |
| German | «Latino» auf WinTotal.de | 11/03/2014 | 1.47 |
| Ge Old Style | Jörg-Peter Wessels | 25/04/2005 | |
| Greek | George Georgiou | 05/05/2009 | |
| Hebrew | Aron Don | 15/12/2011 | 1.47 |
| Hungarian | Huzella Balázs | 19/07/2005 | |
| Italian | Fabio Milocco | 06/07/2011 | |
| Italian | Devil | 23/02/2014 | 1.47 |
| Japanese | X-WORKS | 12/07/2005 | |
| Norwegian | Helge Rødne Skjeveland | 03/12/2005 | |
| Polish | Szymon Ogrodnik | 14/06/2005 | |
| Portuguese | Rui Morais | 10/09/2005 | |
| Portuguese Brazil | Mark Nascimento - Bambuí | 15/05/2005 | |
| Romanian | Jaff (Oprea Nicolae) | 15/02/2013 | 1.47 |
| Russian | Starichok | 18/04/2006 | |
| Simplified Chinese | renda | 26/02/2008 | |
| Slovak | Michal 'KuboF' Matúšov | 04/05/2008 | |
| Spanish | Ricardo A. Rivas | 08/06/2020 | 1.47 |
| Swedish | Olle Jansson | 14/02/2012 | 1.47 |
| Taiwanese | Republic Of Taiwan | 17/12/2005 | |
| Traditional Chinese | Sophina Liu | 29/08/2010 | |
| Traditional Chinese | Mido | 05/08/2008 | |
| Thai | ประสิทธิ์ แคภูเขียว | 25/03/2008 | |
| Turkish | Selchuk Dursun | 22/08/2016 | |
| Valencian | vjatv | 29/06/2005 |
We have just shared a new icon pack extension with 4,670 icons all in SVG format from Visual Studio 2017.
You can find the project here and on GitHub. However, more than four thousand icons are too many for the image browser to preview at design time, so we have also improved the design time browser to render the icons in preview only when scrolled into the view area.
It will be available for both Wisej 1.5 and Wisej 2.0 in the next updates.
But more about Icon Packs in Wisej… Icon Packs allow you to put as many icons as you like into a single assembly and use them from your Wisej application as if they were a regular image file.
You can use the icons at design time and in code. You can swap an assembly for another. And most importantly, you have to deploy only 1 file containing all the icons.
We provide these Icon Packs downloadable here.
Name | Icons | Link |
FontAwesome | 519 | |
Material Design | 423 | |
Modern UI | 1,276 | |
Elegant Icons | 294 | |
Visual Studio 2017 | 4,670 |
However, there is more to a Wisej Icon Pack than meets the eye. When you look into the projects we provide you will also find a class named “Icons” in the root namespace as the library. The class looks like this:
Having this class in the library allows the application code to use the icons easily in code like this:
Simple. And you get all the benefits of IntelliSense as well when coding.
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Create an Icon Pack for Your Application:
Given the flexibility of this approach, it would be a good idea to create an icon pack specific for your application.
- Simply create a new project (Class Library) in the solution, name it something like “AppIcons”.
- Remove all the references, they are not needed.
- Create a directory Resources.
- Copy in Resources all the icons you want and set the Build Action to “Embedded Resource”.
- Create a new class Icons like this (assuming your project compiles to an assembly names “MyApp.AppIcons.dll”:
Now you can refer to the icons in this assembly throughout the application and if you need add a new icon, add it in one place only, if you need to change an icon you can do it in one place.
And in case you want to manage “themeable” icon sets, you can build an assembly with the same name but different icons.
Tricks
If you omit the name of the assembly from the root string, i.e. root = “resource.wx/”, Wisej will load the icon from anywhere it can find it giving the precedence to the deployed files.
This feature allows you to overwrite deployed icons and to swap an icon set using assemblies with different names.
For example, if on a particular server you want to override an icon, simply deploy the replacement icon as the root of the project.
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You can also override fully qualified icon names by creating a directory with the same name as the assembly. For example, to override the icons deployed with Wisej.Ext.FontAwesome, create a directory “Wisej.Ext.FontAwesome” in the deployed location and add the replacement icons in there.
SVG Icons
One more note to explain why we use SVG icons everywhere.
Wisej provides another unique feature, which is the recoloring of SVG icons. Internally, on the browser, we preload the SVG icons and store them as XML objects. This allows Wisej to change the color of monochromatic SVG icons on the fly, cache the new version, and update the web page really quickly by using the base64 representation of the SVG icon.
The recoloring supports any color, including our theme colors. All these variations work:
The last one is a theme color.
SVG icons can also scale without any loss of quality, being vector images, which works well especially with the newer high definition monitors.
Other systems would have you create at least 3 different PNGs (normal, disabled, active) and 3 more for high definition displays. Then multiply that for any different color. That is 6 x colors images to maintain.
With our approach you need only 1.
Why not use font icons?
I’m glad you asked. Font icons are also SVG icons. But using fonts to replace certain characters to look like an image and add them as pseudo elements is a hack and has always been a hack. It was done like that when browsers didn’t support SVG icons.
The limitations of using fonts in place of icons are many, just to name a few: loading and installing a font is heavy for a browser, if you only need 1 more icon what do you do – create a whole new font?
Font icons are only monochromatic, placing pseudo elements is not flexible, font icons cannot be used as background images, …
Having said that, nothing prevents you from loading a font with icons and use it in Wisej.