[Request] Resource/Version Info Viewer

[Dines]

It would be very useful for applications if there were an object that enabled you to retrieve (not edit, obviously!) some of the resources and Version Info of exes.

Just simple things like the icons for the exe, description, file version, copyright notice and any other strings that may have been added to the Version Info.

For retrieving icons, perhaps it could generate a PNG file for the image you're retrieving. Or possibly just show the selected icon image in a little display on the screen?

If no one fancies the idea of making this, does anyone know of any byte offsets to the Version Info / Icons in EXE files so I can possibly use Binary Object to retrieve it?

[joewski]

Herb made such an object. I too would find this useful for MMF2. We just have to ask him very nicely if he cares to release the source or get somebody to convert the extension.

[Sphax]

Sphax File-Foler object, in the next release, will let you get Version Informations of an executable file (exe, dll, ocx, mfx, cox, gox, ...)

[joewski]

That would be very useful Sphax.

[Dines]

Would it be possible to get it to extract the icon data as well?

[Joshtek]

I think you can get some icon data from the IconView object.

[neat_Kliker2]

or you can use binary object if you use a search engine as well.

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