Avalon Icon Library Viewer ver. 1.40

Product Description
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    Avalon Icon Library Viewer is a Windows Explorer property sheet extension.
It adds additional property sheet page to file types that may contain multiple 
icon inside, such as : *.dll, *.exe, *.ocx, *.cpl, *.icl, *.il, *.nil.
These file formats follow called as Icon Library file's.
    Using Avalon Icon Library Viewer provide very quick and simple way to browse 
Icon Library file's and extract icon from them. Current version work with both
16 and 32 bit files format. 
    Avalon Icon Library Viewer make possible to save each of icons, located 
inside Icon Library as a icon file or convert each of the images, located inside 
selected icon to a bitmap format with specified background. Also it is possible 
to copy each of the images, located inside selected icon to the Windows Clipboard.

What News?
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Ver. 1.20. 
1)  Support for browsing 32-bit DLL, EXE and OCX modules has been added.
2)  "Copy to clipboard" command has been added.

Ver. 1.30.
1)  Support for browsing 16-bit DLL, EXE ,OCX and CPL modules has been added.

Ver. 1.40.
1)  User interface has been improved by adding toolbar.
2)  Some internal memory management problems has been fixed.

Working with Avalon Icon Library Viewer
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    Select one of the Icon Library files in the Windows Explorer pane and right
click to get Windows Explorer context menu. Select "Properties" menu item and 
get properties dialog for this file. Now this property sheet dialog contains
additional page, called "View Icons". Switch to this page and immediately appear
list icons, located inside Icon Library file.
    To perform some action with icons, right click inside list view to get
Avalon Icon Library Viewer context menu. It`s possible to perform the following
actions :

    1)  Save selected icon as icon file (*.ico).
        Select in the Avalon Icon Library Viewer context menu "Save As File.."
        menu item (or press appropriate toolbar button) and provide location
        and file name for new icon file.

    2)  Save one of the images, located inside selected icon as bitmap file 
        (*.bmp). Select in the Avalon Icon Library Viewer context menu 
        "Save As File..." menu item (or press appropriate toolbar button)
        and choose in the "Save as type" drop-down list item "Bitmap files 
        (*.bmp)". Select from "Device image" drop-down list one of the icon 
        images you want to save and from "Background color" drop-down list
        one of the colors to fill icon's transparent area. Then provide
        location and file name for new icon and press "Save" button.

    3)  Save all icons, located inside Icon Library to the specified folder.
        Select in the Avalon Icon Library Viewer context menu "Save All..."
        menu item (or press appropriate toolbar button) and choose in the 
        "Browse for Folder" dialog destination folder for storing icons, 
        extracted from Icon Library. Click "OK" to extract all icons to 
        the destination folder.

    4)  Copy one of the images, located inside selected icon to Windows 
        Clipboard. Select in the Avalon Icon Library Viewer context menu
        "Copy to clipboard" menu item and opens submenu with the list of
        available images. Choose menu item with image attributes you need
        and appropriate bitmap appear in the clipboard and ready to paste
        to any graphic editor.
 
    5)  Change view options : "Large Icons", "Small Icons", "List".

System Requirements
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	* Windows 95, 98 or NT operating system with standard Microsoft Windows 
      Explorer based shell
	* 486/66 or better PC running Windows 95, 98 or NT
	* PC compatible mouse
	* 8 MB Ram
	* 200 KB disk space

Current Version
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Avalon Icon Library Viewer version 1.40

Status Of This Software
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This program is freeware.  It may be used for any purpose you want. 


How To Contact The Author
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All comment and wishes send :

	Email   :  Staloverov Yuri <yuristv@hotmail.com>
    WWW     :  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/8542/Icl_View.htm


 

