[Wine] How to extract icons?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Sep 16 02:17:45 CDT 2005


James E. LaBarre wrote:

> What I've done before is to use IrfanView (www.irfanview.com), which is a
> free Windows image viewer.  It installs nicely under Wine as well.
> 
> To extract the icon from an EXE, simply open the .exe file inside
> irfanview, and it will show you the first icon in the file.  At the top of
> the window is a "Page x/y" box and up/down arrows next to it.  this will
> scroll through the icons in the file.  Then you can do a "File | Save As"
> to save the icon out to a seperate file.  It doesn't create XPM files,
> however, so you will have to use PNG (or BMP, etc.)

Wow, I've used IrfanView for years and never knew it could do that! 
Irfan's nifty little utility continues to amaze me ...

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David
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