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Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6

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  An ICO file consists of a simple header that describes
the content, and 1 or more icons. Each icon consists
of an image bitmap and a mask bitmap, which holds the
transparency information in the form of a 2-color bitmap
version of the image bitmap. (Black is transparent.)
So you can have any number of icons in a single ICO
file. They get stored in series, with the storage documented
in the header. You just need to pick a program to make
them with. Any decent icon editor will let you work on several
images for one ICO. But anything bigger than 48x48 is relatively
new. Truer color is also relatively new. You'll want to make
sure that the icons you create still look OK on the oldest
systems you plan to support. But you can also store
different color depths in a single ICO file. For instance,
most MS XP icons come as 16, 32 and 48 sizes, and in
16 and 256 color depths.

   Personally I much prefer to create the images in a graphic
editor and then use something to create an ICO from that.
(I mostly use IrfnaView, creating 256-color 32x32 icons. I've
found that Windows can render that as a better 16x16 than
I can draw myself.)
  The problem with icon editors is that they work from a
single pixel point of view, but images don't. (If you want to
lighten an image of an apple you can do it with one click
in a graphic editor, while it would take hours to do in a
typical icon editor.) So it's best to import an image to touch
up, rather than drawing it from scratch.

| On Windows 7, the old icons of VB6 look bad.
|
| Can I have 64 by 64 icons for VB 6 programs?
|
| How can I make 64 x 64 icons? I have read that 256 colour bitmaps are
| accepted as icons. Is there a better way? I need to draw six curves
| for one icon.
|
| Thank you for any replies. 

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64 x 64 icons and VB6 C <wrong.address.1@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 03:34 -0700
  Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-13 11:58 +0100
    Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 C <wrong.address.1@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 10:48 -0700
  Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-06-13 08:41 -0400
    Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 C <wrong.address.1@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 10:45 -0700
      Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-06-13 20:24 -0400
  Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-13 12:36 -0400
    Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 C <wrong.address.1@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 10:46 -0700
      Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-13 22:02 -0400
  Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 "Abhishek" <abhishek007p@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-02 01:59 +0530

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