ico(n)                       Windows ICO handling                       ico(n)





NAME
       ico - Reading and writing windows icons

SYNOPSIS
       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require ico  ??00.3??

       ::::ico::::getIconList file ?option value...?

       ::::ico::::getIcon file index ?option value...?

       ::::ico::::writeIcon file index depth data ?option value...?

       ::::ico::::copyIcon file index file2 index2 ?option value...?

       ::::ico::::EXEtoICO file file2

       ::::ico::::clearCache ?file?

       ::::ico::::transparentColor image color

       ::::ico::::Show file ?option value...?



DESCRIPTION
       This  package  provides functions for reading and writing Windows icons
       from ICO, ICL, EXE, and DL files.

API
       ::::ico::::getIconList file ?option value...?
              Returns a list of icons found in file where each element has the
              format {width height depth}. Recognizes the following options.

              -type value


       ::::ico::::getIcon file index ?option value...?
              Extracts  the  icon  at index from file.  The default -format is
              image which will return the name of a Tk  image  containing  the
              icon. Optionally -name may be used to specify the name of the Tk
              image that is created. If -format is colors then a list of color
              names  in the #RGB format is returned. Each list element is a
              horizontal row. Each horizontal row contains a  list  of  colors
              for  all  the pixels in that row from left to right.  Recognizes
              the following options.

              -type value

              -format value

              -name value


       ::::ico::::writeIcon file index depth data ?option value...?

              file fileName (in)

              index integer (in)
                     This is the 0-based index of  the  icon  to  write.  When
                     writing  to  an  EXE, DL, or ICL file you may only over-
                     write existing icons with an icon of the same  dimensions
                     and  color  depth.   When writing to an ICO, index may be
                     one greater than the last icon. This will  append  a  new
                     icon  to  the  file.   When writing to an ICO, index will
                     accept end. This will also  cause  the  new  icon  to  be
                     appended  to  the file.  When writing the other types end
                     will refer to the last existing icon.

              depth integer (in)
                     This argument must have a value of 1, 4, 8, 24 or 32.  If
                     data has more colors than the color depth allows an error
                     will be generated.

              data options (in)
                     This argument is either a list of colors  in  the  format
                     returned  by ::::ico::::getIcon -format colors or the name of
                     a Tk image.

       Recognizes the following options.

              -type value


       ::::ico::::copyIcon file index file2 index2 ?option value...?
              Copies the icon at index in file to index2 in file2.

              -fromtype value

              -totype value


       ::::ico::::EXEtoICO file file2
              Extracts all icons from the executable  file  to  the  ICO  file
              file2

              -type value


       ::::ico::::clearCache ?file?
              The  ::::ico::::getIconList  command caches icon offsets inside EXE,
              DL, and ICL files in order to speed up extraction.   This  com-
              mand clears that cache for the specific ?file? or all files.

       ::::ico::::transparentColor image color
              Sets  every  pixel matching color in Tk image image to transpar-
              ent.

       ::::ico::::Show file ?option value...?
              Application level command which displays a  window  showing  all
              the icons in file with information about them.

              -type value

              -parent value

EXAMPLE
           button .explore -image [::ico::getIcon explorer.exe 0 -name explore]
           set i [lsearch [::ico::getIconList tclkit.exe] {32 32 8}]
           set colorlist [::ico::getIcon tclkit.exe $i -format colors -type EXE]

KEYWORDS
       dll, entry, exe, ico, icon



ico                                   0.3                               ico(n)