ToyCon is a free drag and drop image to icon converter that converts JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TGA images to ICO as well as ICO to PNG. It supports the creation of a full range of icon size formats within the ICO file including the new Vista .ICO format which supports 256×256 resolution icons in PNG compression.
A quick image to icon converter that offers drag and drop simplicity alongside a versatile set of format choices for your resulting ICO file. Here are more notes on this program:
- Portable: just unzip and run, no installation needed.
- Drag and drop: the interface couldn’t be simpler (or more pleasant to work with). You can drag a single image or multiple image files at once onto the ToyCon dialog hovering on your desktop (see screenshot).
- ICO file formats: right click on “choose formats” to access a format selection dialog. This is where you determine if your ICO file will contain any or all of Vista, 32bit, 8bit or 4bit color information as well as the icon sizes that you would like included in your ICO file for each (16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 72×72, 96×96, 128×128 and 256×256). The format chooser is very versatile and powerful and comes with 3 pre-built presets (XP, Vista, and “Dock”) with the ability to specify a custom configuration. (Although it doesn’t allow you to save it independently as a preset).
- Convert ICO to PNG: is possible, up to an image size of 256×256.
- Batch conversion: see “drag and drop” above.
The verdict: although I’ve written about other image to ICO converters previously (e.g. Imagicon, the online service Bradicon) I would probably recommend this little program over these other ones because of the following: it doesn’t require installation, it is very user friendly, and it is very versatile and powerful in terms of what it does. A winner!
Version Tested: 0.6
Compatibility: WinAll.
Go to the ToyCon forum page to download the latest version. Scroll down for English (approx 186K).
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Huh, very cool..I just don’t foresee using a program like this very often. I think it could be very useful for certain situations however.
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Nice – better than AVEIcon. The UI is a bit minimal, but it’s all there.
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Downloaded it; looks cool on the screen, BUT I cannot get it to work at all!
Well. Real mess with links and versions
The link in description brings you to French site where is a link for v0.4 that jumps to Softpedia with v0.5… but descriptions stated that 0.6 tested…
After all that AVG detects Trojan in Updater.exe
which is most likely False Positive but after visiting many places in a search for the file… who knows ???…
Yes the link given here is messy… especially when you can’t read french… I downloaded directly from Softpedia. They tested it as spyware and virus-free:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/ToYcon-Download-68934.html
Catboy85 <<<<
It si a virous
Installed ToYcon and quickly had it deleted by AVG which said it was infected with Trojan HorsePSW.Goldun.KG!!
Not sure what’s going on… (maybe I just didn’t use enough deodorant this morning.) But better safe than sorry. Sad. It looked nice.
@Catboy: I removed this link that you provided as it pointed to an old version of ToyCon.
@lightningwolfe: I just re-downloaded ToyCon and uploaded to VirusTotal.com. It shows that 2 out of 36 virus/malware scanners list it as “suspicious”… which is to say 34 out of 36 give it a clean bill of health. I am certain that it is 100% clean.
See here: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/3f67f27fdfd5ba834bed378894f47003
ToYcon is a simple and powerful idea… whose implementation fails miserably.
Just dragging and dropping a BMP/etc onto the on-desktop icon for ToYcon is wonderfully simple, but the big question is where the resulting icon will be – the desktop? no. Your Documents folder? No. After that, your guess is as good as mine.
And it can’t even cope with that most basic requirement of an icon – transparency.
I spent an hour trying to get ToYcon to work, and failed. I then spent 5 minutes with IcoFX, and succeeded. Which one is on my PC now?
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nice one