I'm looking for a Free Icon editor..

[DragonsRightWing]

I like it - a more specific variation on several well-known quotes: "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless) “Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools” Gene Brown There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. Edward Teller

[Sidneys1]

I use PDN + Axalis IcoWorkshop, but you can just use Paint.NET

[Mikkel Elmholdt]

Recommended!

[PeteMcNamee]

I thought I had seen this quote before. It's on quotationspage.com: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rick Cook[^], The Wizardry Compiled

[jacobjordan]

I do something that's probably ghetto. I make the icon a .jpg or
.png then just change the extension to .ico. Haven't had a problem yet.

How on earth is that even possible?????

if (your.Life == lifestyles.Programming) {     your.Cool = true; } else {     your.Cool = false; }

[Super Lloyd]

it's you!?! :-\

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

[Super Lloyd]

Haha.. good idea! Nonetheless it didn't work out for my idea. I'm trying to change a folder's icon in Windows Explorer. It wants an ICO file. When I tried to used a renamed .PNG the property panel refused, saying there was no icon in my file! :sigh: Good try though! ;-)

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

[dannette]

I don't know - I've been doing it for a few years now....

[dannette]

I just realized it wants to open in gimp. I recently downloaded gimp and haven't had a chance to really explore it but it seems gimp will save in ico format as well and it is a free application. Why not try that? http://www.gimp.org/[^]

[radialronnie]

Super Lloyd wrote:

it's you!?!

Yep! ;P :)

A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _______________________________________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

[dandy72]

In the same vein - I'm looking for a simple animation (.avi) file editor. Googling for .avi editors returns apps like VirtualDub, which are not suited for this purpose. Just today I could've used an animation similar to Explorer's File Copy, only, replacing both "end points"--a PC on the left, and another PC on the right (combined maybe with a 16x16 RegEdit icon), to display in an app that spends a fair a bit of time reading a remote machine's registry over a LAN. I have no graphic design skills whatsoever, but I figure by using an existing animation as a starting point (such as the AVIs provided with VS) and replacing parts of it with existing icons, I should be able to make something that looks half-decent... Does anyone know of a tool that could do such a thing?

[bywin]

OMG, how long have I been saying testing is all about idiot-proofing ;P :-\

[Richard Barbre]

I have always like that one; and so TRUE!