Icon library - Revision history

Jsummers: /* Sample files */

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‎Sample files

Jsummers: Category:Windows

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Category:Windows

Jsummers: /* Formats */

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‎Formats

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Jsummers at 18:17, 18 October 2024

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Jsummers at 14:49, 21 September 2019

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Jsummers: Pretty much a rewrite

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Pretty much a rewrite

Jsummers: Undo revision 26418 by Felix (talk) See discussion page for reasons

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Undo revision 26418 by Felix (talk) See discussion page for reasons

Felix: Redirected page to New Executable

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Redirected page to New Executable

Jsummers: /* Sample files */

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‎Sample files

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 * [http://zapatopi.net/icon/ Zapaticons]
 * {{CdTextfiles|svgold/CDR56/VARICONS.ZIP|VARICONS.ZIP}} → MORICONS.DLL
 == Links ==

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	* [[Wikipedia:ICO (file format)#Icon library]]		* [[Wikipedia:ICO (file format)#Icon library]]

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 == Formats ==
 Some specific Icon library formats have their own article:
 * [[Icon library (hDC Icon Designer)]] (.il)
 * [[Icon library (Impact Software)]] (.icl)

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 * {{CdTextfilesURL|desktopworks/ICON_LIB/}}
 * [http://zapatopi.net/icon/ Zapaticons]
 == Links ==

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 |formattype=electronic
 |subcat=Graphics
-|extensions={{ext|icl}}
+|extensions={{ext|icl}}, {{ext|dll}}, others
 }}
-:''This article is about a specific format. For more icon library formats, see [[Graphics#Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files]].''
+:''This article is about a particular family of formats. For more icon library formats, see [[Graphics#Icon, Cursor, and Avatar files]].''
-'''Icon library''' (.icl) is a format used on Microsoft Windows for storing multiple icons in one file. It is an [[New Executable|NE]] (or maybe [[Portable Executable|PE]]) "executable" file stripped down to the bare minimum needed to use it as an icon container. The individual icons are resources within the library file, in [[ICO]] format.
+'''Icon library''' is a loosely-defined family of Microsoft Windows file formats that store multiple [[ICO|icons]] in a [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|DLL]] or DLL-like [[New Executable|NE]] or [[Portable Executable|PE]] file.
 == Discussion ==
-The .icl files we've examined are [[New Executable|NE]] files that contain icon resources, and that have nearly all the nonessential fields set to 0. One might expect the files to be labeled internally as [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|DLL]]s, but that is not the case for some or all .icl files. They're just generic NE files.
+Broadly speaking, an ''icon library'' could be any such file whose only significant content is icon resources. An example is the moricons.dll file included with Windows 3.1 and later.
-The origins of the '''.icl''' file extension, and any other differences it may have from a typical resource-only [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|.dll]] file, are unclear.
+More narrowly, there are varieties of this format that use a special filename extension, and/or have other distinguishing characteristics. One of the most notable is the '''.icl''' format made by ''Icon Manager'' (and later ''Microangelo'') by Impact Software.
-== Tools ==
+== Formats ==
 * [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms648068%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ExtractIcon function]
 * [http://en.softonic.com/s/icl-extractor ICL extractor programs]

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 |extensions={{ext|icl}}
 }}
-An '''icon library''' is a Microsoft Windows format for storing multiple icons in one file. It is in the same format as the [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)|DLL]] (Dynamic Link Library) files used by Windows, but limited to storage of icons and not the other things also commonly found in DLL files. The individual icons are resources within the library file, in [[ICO]] format.
+'''Icon library''' (.icl) is a format used on Microsoft Windows for storing multiple icons in one file. It is an [[New Executable|NE]] (or maybe [[Portable Executable|PE]]) "executable" file stripped down to the bare minimum needed to use it as an icon container. The individual icons are resources within the library file, in [[ICO]] format.
 == Tools ==
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 == Links ==
 * [http://www.rw-designer.com/icon-library-icl Icon library (RW-Designer)]
 [[Category:Microsoft]]

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−	~~#REDIRECT~~ [[~~New Executable~~]]	+	{{FormatInfo
		+	\|formattype=electronic
		+	\|subcat=Graphics
		+	\|extensions={{ext\|icl}}
		+	}}
		+	An '''icon library''' is a Microsoft Windows format for storing multiple icons in one file. It is in the same format as the [[Dynamic-link library (Windows)\|DLL]] (Dynamic Link Library) files used by Windows, but limited to storage of icons and not the other things also commonly found in DLL files. The individual icons are resources within the library file, in [[ICO]] format.
		+
		+	== Tools ==
		+	* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms648068%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ExtractIcon function]
		+	* [http://en.softonic.com/s/icl-extractor ICL extractor programs]
		+
		+	== Sample files ==
		+	* http://cd.textfiles.com/desktopworks/ICON_LIB/
		+	* [http://zapatopi.net/icon/ Zapaticons]
		+
		+	== Links ==
		+	* [http://www.rw-designer.com/icon-library-icl Icon library (RW-Designer)]
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		+	[[Category:Microsoft]]

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	== Sample files ==		== Sample files ==
		+	* http://cd.textfiles.com/desktopworks/ICON_LIB/
	* [http://zapatopi.net/icon/ Zapaticons]		* [http://zapatopi.net/icon/ Zapaticons]