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Your Message : hello,

I was searching for a command line tool that could extract icons from icon libraries to a more universal picture format and I found your "t@b Icon Ripper" (tabiripp.exe). Just the thing I was searching for but there are some improvements I would like to see if they are possible at all and if you have the time. Is it possible that the name of the extracted icons can be something like nameOfIconLibrary_indexOfIconInLibrary.png or even nameOfIconLibrary_indexOfIconInLibrary_dimensionOfIcon.png instead of some unsaying number as the icon name.

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and here's a (first attempt at) an answer,

the weird name which you see in the output is actual a SHA-1 hash (checksum) of a 32 bit per pixel representation of the icon bitmap plus mask.

i had to use that in order to avoid redundancies. ie: when scanning a set of folders for icons i receceived countless duplicates. so every discovered icon is "checksummed" and only written to the target directory if it does not exists.

you can, however, achieve more precice results, by specifying explicitly:

tabiripp.exe executablefilename.exe targetdir

this will extract icons only from the specified executable file. if you target directory was empty to start with, then you can tell with certainty that any contained icons must have come from the executable supplied in the tabiripp command.

workable?

proscht countinn

this software is great! it worked first time and did exactly what i wanted it to do!! :-D

I have .ico files with many icons inside it, with different sizes. Is there a way to extract all them?

Thanks.

this is a great utility, i would also howver love it if there was more logic to the naming.. (even if it was an extra option).

i am using it in a project to create a web browser file explorer to allow me access to my computer remotely and securely without VPN etc..

In windows desktop.ini files custom icons are specified in exe's etc with an index, at the moment i have no way of telling which icon goes with which index, the dimensions i can work out but if there was some way to do:
tabiripp.exe icon outputdir (filename)

e.g.
tabiripp.exe someapp.exe c:\output app1
to output files like:

• c:\output\app1_0.png
• c:\output\app1_1.png
• etc...

or even better with the sizes:

• c:\output\app1_0_16.png
• c:\output\app1_1_32.png
• etc...

you could revert to the hashing method should the 3rd variable not be supplied.

Would be fantastic if this were in any way possible,

Many Thanks,