About box
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Nuke the memo...this is for your eyes only as a developer.
This project is provided as-is as a means of manually hacking
cons in compiled exes and dlls. The back end for this is courtesy
of "Phideaux", a.k.a. William Brooks.  Front end is by "WinterHeat",
a.k.a. Cub Lea.  The idea for the icon display listbox came from
an anonymous code pack called ICONTRAP.

The save-as-bitmap code isn't implemented...it's simple enough
to complete.  Everything else should be fully functional.

This utility is nastyware...it was created out of necessity
due to a set of circumstances I am not even at liberty to discuss.
Let's just say that someone's ego cost me a lot of time and money.

This package also contains Icon Whack, generously offered up by
Mitch Howard as freeware.  TBOMK its source was never made widely
available.

And for your convenience, the 32 bit source (sorry...not 16 bit
compatible) of ConvertIcon (to BMP) is included, sans compiled
.EXE...it has its own docs.

Both are in their own subdirs.

If you improve on this stuff, please send a copy of your
improvements to me MIME or UUE at cublea@cyberstore.ca

Copyright restrictions:
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The code and implementation is free for you to use. As a courtesy
I would appreciate it if the look and feel were changed prior to
using this set of units in any commercial, shareware or freeware
project. The helpfile is mine...write your own or *ruthlessly* edit
my text.  If you steal either the text or the layout for a look-alike
app, you'll hear from me via someone who gets paid more per hour than
I do, and it'll be my publisher you'll hear from, not me...understood?

That out of the way, let's get down to it.

Stuff:
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The project uses DTools' balloon hints. Nuke the reference
in favor of your own multiline or custom hint component.

This is Q&D stuff here, designed for a specific application
and it's nowhere near an icon hacking utility for all
purposes. This archive also includes Mitch Howard's freeware
C code and icon hack executable which might suit your needs
even better.

Consider the disclaimer screen essential to prevent mailbombs,
death threats and damage suits.

Known limitations:
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Since this was designed for a proprietary application, its
functionality is somewhat limited but the tools for extending
it exist in Neil Rubenking's ICONJACK source code available 
from the ZDNet archives.

It will not accept icons in source or target which have
been compiled into resources using integer IDs as opposed to
text IDs. It chokes on any non-766-byte standard icon. That means
just about anything Microsoft is going to be invisible until its
icons are saved individually and reloaded into the browser. An
easy fix for someone who knows what they're doing...why it isn't
fixed here says plenty about my skills.

Warn your users about copyrights on iconic images!!! Failure to 
do so could land you in court.

Other stuff:
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If you need a crack Help author, give me a shout. I do for helpfiles
what Delphi does for app development, and here's a list of files to
scope on www.shareware.com that prove it:

ftday.zip
bigstupe.zip/exe
nitewrld.zip/exe

...and check out my line of authoring extensions from Software
Interphase at www.sinterphase.com (after Aug. 1/96) to see what I can
do with enhancing Help functionality...and how easy I've made it for
you to do it too.

cublea@cyberstore.ca
