That is most of everything done. All you need to do now is convert the PNG file to an ICO file that will work with Windows 10. We recommend using IcoConverter. Upload your PNG image to this web app and then scroll to the very end. Click the Convert ICO button, and then the Download your icons button. Don’t change any of the settings that the app has. PNG to ICO image conversion will begin automatically after upload. Once the files are converted (green bar) you can download the converted ICO files individually or click “Download All” button to download all files in a ZIP archive format.
PNG to ICO converter, ICO to PNG converter. 5 Ways to Create a Windows Icon. Creating an image file is easy, but save it as a Windows icon file may be a little tricky.
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The online tool helps to convert your image to Win 10, Win 8, Win 7 and Windows Vista icon format. The generated file will be a multi-resolution.ICO format, include 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, and 16x16 pixel images in it. If you want a transparent icon, just upload a GIF or PNG file with transparency background.
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hi I have a collection of nice .png files..meanwhile, I'm developing a win-based software and need some .ico files as icons for toolbar buttons and ..
Is there any way to use .png file as an icon ? or what?
You can simply convert the images to ico files online Icon Convert.
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As an IT Pro in this community, you should be able to do this.
If you are using .NET this is not a real problem for you, because afaik PNG support is already build in. You are probably talking about native C/C++ development with GDI/win32?
To my knowledge you will not accomplish this by simply using GDI. There are a couple of options where you can set ONE color as transparent then load a simple BMP/JPEG and do some BITMAP tricks however using ICO/GIF will be far easier for this.
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What you are probably looking for is a working GDI+ example which will use a PNG with alpha channel? This is just an excerpt and I left out the whole mess loading external functions from a DLL part, but maybe this will help you:
Just a quick note: This GDI+ stuff is really CPU/memory intensive for a couple of reasons. Although fun I did abandoned this approach in favor of gdi and simple BMPs.
If you're loading the images from a resource file, then no, you can't use PNGs, you have to use ICOs. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that can convert PNGs into ICOs, including ImageMagick (great for automation), and MSPaint as a lowest common denominator.
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If you're loading image files at runtime, then you can load any type of image format you want (e.g. use libpng for loading PNGs), but you still have to convert them to icons internally before you can do interesting things with them, such as setting them as a window's icon. Once you've decoded the image data, it's not terribly difficult to convert it to the proper format, but it's not trivial, it just involves a lot of data mangling and strange structs and function calls from the Win32 API.