IconGrabber

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 23 May 2018
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NAME

IconGrabber - Search and extract icons and cursors from EXE or DLL files

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/IconGrabber [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

IconGrabber [ file ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

(BeCy)IconGrabber is a small utility to view icons and cursors of any sizes that are contained in EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR files. The icons/cursors can be saved either individually as an icon, cursor, bitmap, png file or collectively within resource libraries.

Features:

File Formats
The application supports reading icons/cursors from Windows executable files (NE/PE format) as for example EXE, DLL and ICL files. Of course simple icon/cursor files like ICO and CUR can also be read. However, the extraction of compressed or animated resources is not possible. In addition to those standard Windows formats, the Unix XPM (v3) format can be imported, too. Individual images can be exported to ICO, CUR, BMP and PNG files. Multiple symbols can be saved as resource libraries, i.e. DLL or ICL files.

Directory View
Using this view the system can be browsed for a file in the usual way, i.e. the contents of the current directory is displayed in a list from which a file can be selected. Using this view, one is not required to select files that really contain icons. For files without icons (like most document files), the application can automatically extract the icons from the associated application executable.

Search Mode
Besides searching on one's own, the application can scan the system for files which contain icons/cursors. Given a root directory the application scans this directory for symbols. Optionally, all sub directories can be scanned, too.

Favorites
Frequently used icon/cursor files can be added to the list of Favorites. This way a file can easily be found the next time the application is run.

Access to Shell Icons
The Favorites always contain an entry which allows viewing the icons which are currently displayed by the operating system. Sometimes the best way to find an icon.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

-i
install the IconGrabber command as menu point to 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-u
uninstall the IconGrabber shortcut from the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-V
print program version.

file
file of which the icon/cursor has to be extracted.

When installed in the 'Send To' menu the selected file in 'Windows Explorer' is passed as the file to the IconGrabber command.

If no file is specified, you are queried to select a file by IconGrabber where you then can select a file to be processed.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage message displayed.

5
version message displayed.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), config(1m), http://www.becyhome.de/becyicongrabber/description_eng.htm

 

NOTES

IconGrabber (BeCyIconGrabber) has been developed by Benjamin Bentmann

Parts of the documentation has been extracted from http://www.becyhome.de/becyicongrabber/description_eng.htm.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

IconGrabber (BeCyIconGrabber) was developed by Benjamin Bentmann and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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