Old icon format

[rchastain2]

Hello Nick (and Raster Master friends).

Can RM create icons in the format that you can see in the attachment?

dos-iconviewer-ptcgraph.zip

[rchastain2]

And, by the way, why does my program display wrong colors? :)

[RetroNick2020]

are you trying to read Windows ICO format. checkout the Raster Master DOS version. I removed creating ico files in the Windows version because i did not want to support the multiple save formats for ico. you can still read ico file using the Import Sprite Sheet option. This allows you to remap the colors for specific palette colors/mode. You can always save in Raster Master raw format and write a converter to support what ever formats you want. will expand the scripting support to handle binary files to make extensions for various export formats easier.

(https://github.com/RetroNick2020/raster-master-dos/blob/main/RM/RWICO.PAS)

[rchastain2]

Great! This unit is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[rchastain2]

Meanwhile, I found two other useful examples:

• http://tothpaul.free.fr/sources.php?tools.bmp2ico
• https://github.com/gladir/corail

So I believe I should manage to do what I wish.

[RetroNick2020]

don't forget the freepascal supports the standard graphics formats through fcl-image. just a few lines of code you can read standard gif/png/jpg formats into a buffer and convert to ico with the above code.

https://github.com/RetroNick2020/Channel-Code/blob/master/freepascal/Graph%20with%20fcl-image/project1.lpr

[RetroNick2020]

oh it looks like fcl-image also supports ICO format, so there is everything you need there.