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- IExtract - The Icon Extractor
- Version 2.2
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- Overview
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- IExtract lets you "steal" the icons out of your favorite Windows applications
- so you can edit them or simply see them up close with your favorite icon
- editing program. IExtract is part of IEdit, my own icon editing program and
- is distributed with IEdit as well as by itself. If you use IExtract, you
- should consider registering, you'll receive the latest version as well as
- IEdit, both for only $8!
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- If you haven't seen IEdit, it's a full-featured icon drawing program with
- tools you won't see in most icon editors, including:
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- * A completely icon-driven command structure.
- * Access to the "invert mask", present within every icon file, but seldom seen
- in most icon drawing programs.
- * Drawing functions like Rotate, Mirror, and Invert as well as line and box
- drawing.
- * A Grid feature and coordinate display for creating precise icons.
- * A Load function that lets you choose from a screen full of icons instead of
- just by their filename.
- * And much more!
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- System Requirements
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- IExtract requires only an EGA or VGA display, IEdit requires a VGA, a mouse,
- and at least a '286 processor (Versions for 8088's are available).
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- Using IExtract
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- IExtract simply searches through a given Windows application for the first
- several bytes of the icon header, when it finds the correct sequence it
- displays the icon and asks if you'd like to continue searching.
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- Before IExtract can start it needs two thing from you:
- 1) The name of the Windows program you wish to search through, and
- 2) The name of the icon file to create when it finds an icon for you.
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- You can simply type "IExtract" and it will prompt you for these filenames, or
- you can specify them on the command line with the following syntax:
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- IEXTRACT [path] <Windows-filename> [path] <Icon-filename to create>
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- Either way IExtract will begin searching (backwards) through the file for an
- icon.
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- Notes
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- 1. IExtract isn't perfect, a similar series of bytes within a Windows file
- can make IExtract THINK it has found an icon, if this happens simply
- respond "Y)es" to the "Continue?" prompt and IExtract will keep searching.
- Also, many files have multiple icons within them.
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- 2. Some (particularly older) Windows apps don't have Windows 3.0 compatible
- icons. In addition, icons may be stored in *.EXE, *.DLL, or virtually
- any file.
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- 3. You should consider the icon file created to still be the copyrighted
- material of software's owner, and you may violate some software agreements
- just by using IExtract, consult your software's creators for details.
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- 4. In case you wondered....
- IExtract and IEdit were created with Microsoft's QuickPascal, a very good
- compiler. IExtract searches backwards because most icons reside at the
- end of a Windows app. Me? Well, glad you asked. I'm a CIS major at The
- University of Florida (graduate [hopefully!] next year), and decided to
- write IEdit just for the shear challenge of it (yeesh...little did
- I know...). Anyway, my employment options are just wide open at this
- point so (hint hint) if you like these programs, why not consider paying
- me vast amounts of money to write similar ones for you? Ok, how about
- just giving me the cash? Alright then, got any cute sisters?
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- 5. Windows and QuickPascal are TM Microsoft Corp.
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- 6. Good Luck and happy Windows-ing!
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- James Bell 4511 Sherwood Trace Gainesville, Fl. 32605 (904) 372-3695
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