Rating: 5
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Version tested: 2.20
BeCyIconGrabber is a very small app that extracts icons contained in resource files (DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR). It also enables saving them singly in ICO, CUR, BMP, or PNG files, or collectively within resource libraries (DLL icon libraries or ICL cursor libraries).
There are many such freeware icon extracting programs. This one is my favorite, however, for the following reasons:
- It allows you to save icons collectively to resource libraries. Most similar programs only feature saving icons singly.
- It is very small and has a functional, simple design. Different icon sizes are viewable very intuitively through clicking tabs, and there is even a zoom function.
- Icon search function; specific director(ies) or all directories
- Favorites section for all the icons you hold dear
Simple, small, looks good, and 100% free. What more do you want from an icon extractor?
Go to download page for latest version (scroll down to the middle). The program home page.
This is very good!
i am like it!!
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I can’t, for the life of me, work out how to save individual ico files to a dll or icl in BeCyGrabber. And thats the main thing that I want to do.
Very Nice!
‘Leigh’ – To save individual ico file, highlight the icon you want in the Right Panel, click the ‘Save’ button underneath;
To save several to a dll, either ‘select all’ (Ctrl A), or select just the ones you want (Ctrl LeftClick) and then click ‘Save’!
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excellent performance
that’s nice apps. i used to make ico from bmp file. change .bmp ext into .ico,
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“very small and has a
functional, simple design”
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“Primitive” would be a better description for the interface. Largest icons this seems to be
able to locate on a search are 48×48 …waaay too small ! I know there were larger icons
there than THAT.
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The PC Rat
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Rat, I don’t know what version you were using (author’s changes list on website doesn’t include release dates) but version 2.30 (newest as of this post) and several versions before that (from what I can tell at least according to the changes list) DO support icons larger than 48×48, I have also verified this for myself by browsing several .dll files and watching more tabs (the main window uses a tabbed interface) show up to contain the additional icon sizes, it also supports icons in various color depths if you right click on the icon and choose ‘colors’. Additionally it supports filtering file types by using a set of predefined filters available in a drop down list below the browser window. As for your comment about the interface being ‘primitive’ I have to say that if you want something with tons of eyecandy look someplace else or better yet write your own, the software does what it does and does it quite well, the interface is clean and uncluttered, something serious users appreciate in utility programs of this nature, we don’t need skins or fancy buttons or a bazillion different checkboxes cluttering up the interface, for what this program is designed to do ‘simple’ or ‘primitive’ is elegant. Not every piece of software has to be glitzy eyecandy, some of it thankfully chooses to put more of a focus on functionality than on appearance, as someone whose hobby/part time job is diagnosing and repairing computer problems as wells as occasionally writing their own software in Visual Basic .NET or Borland Delphi I can say I’d rather have functional software over eyecandy any day. I wish more programmers would put more focus on function than appearance, maybe then we wouldn’t have as many problems with Windows and other OS’s having security holes or as many problems with program crashes.
Small, functional, attractive interface, east to use and works perfectly. Also has a portable version…….sweet!