Windows Icons to Linux (converting)

[David Floyd]

no sorry,

I am using this metod

for i in *\ *
do
mv "$i" `echo "$i" | tr ' ' '_'`
done
for i in *.ico
do
j=${i%.ico}.png
# or: j=${i}l
mv $i $j
done

described in first post

In addition, wrestool -x --output=. -t14

is supposed to extract icons from .dll .icl & .exe, but I cannot get it to work

see another post in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...73&postcount=6

[Gen2ly]

Updated the howto.

[bodhi.zazen]

Thanks for the update

Again, well done !

[eentonig]

So, did you get the code:

wrestool -x --output=. -t14

to work?

I got the error message :

wrestool: command not found

and I don't know how to proceed from there.

David

You need to install that command. As it is not know to your system. I don't know which package this is in though.

[bodhi.zazen]

LOL !

wrestool is in icoutils



See post #1 of this thread

sudo aptitude install icoutils

It's in Universe so you may need to enable the universe repository :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

[gibbylinks]

Sorry, I know this has been dormant for a while, but I just did a yahoo search and found this thread.

Excuse my ignorance, but I have a dual boot computer with Win XP and Gutsy. My PC has a hard drive full of music that I have collected. When viewed in windows I have one icon for MP3's I have ripped direct from my CD collection and one icon for MP3's I have "acquired".

Would this enable me to view these icons correctly in my Ubuntu ?

If not is this possible to do and if so how ?

Cheers

[watricky]

Sorry for this extremely late addition to the thread. I hope it actually helps someone.

extract .ico from .icl .dll .exe

wrestool -x --output=. -t14

convert .ico to .png

for i in *.ico; do convert "$i" "$i.png"; done

Might help to mention the file.

~$ wrestool --help | grep Usage
Usage: wrestool [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Thus the full way to get the icon resources out of an example.dll is:

~$ wrestool -x --output=. -t14 example.dll

Gibbylinks, I'm not sure how to help specifically. If you can find where the icon is on your Windows system then you can use the given methods to extract the icon.

[jvdurme]

Sorry for this extremely late addition to the thread. I hope it actually helps someone.



Might help to mention the file.

~$ wrestool --help | grep Usage
Usage: wrestool [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Thus the full way to get the icon resources out of an example.dll is:

~$ wrestool -x --output=. -t14 example.dll

Gibbylinks, I'm not sure how to help specifically. If you can find where the icon is on your Windows system then you can use the given methods to extract the icon.

Great! Worked for me.

[hydrox24]

This was a really helpful and succinct post. Thanks for adding even more quality and trust to the world of Ubuntu and linux!

[melifaro]

simple script for creating icons from windows files. I found it on some forum, but was not working, modified. Now everything works.

requires: imagemagik (convert)

How to use:

$ wineicons.sh file.exe file.png

Source code:

#!/bin/sh

f=`mktemp`


if wrestool "$1" -x -t14 > $f && [ -s $f ]; then
id=`icotool -l $f | awk '{
ci=int(substr($2,index($2,"=")+1));
cw=int(substr($3,index($3,"=")+1));
cb=int(substr($5,index($5,"=")+1));

if (cw > w || (cw == w && cb > b)) {
b = cb;
w = cw;
i = ci;
}
}
END {
print i;
}'`

icotool -x --index=$id $f -o "$2"
convert -resize 48x48 "$2" "$2" # optional
else
cp '/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/mimetypes/exec_wine.png' "$2"
fi

rm $f