Programmically Read/Mofiy EXE Icon, Version Info

[Gregery D Engle]

I'm writing an EXE wrapper that will combine various files

My wrapper will read a source .EXE file and it needs to

- Extract the program Icon
- Extract the Version Information

THEN

- It modifies the wrapper to reflect the .EXE program icon
- Also updates the version information for the wrapper to reflect
  the .EXE file too

This needs to be done programmically, and I can't use a resource
compiler.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

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-Greg

[Semen Matusovski]

If you worry about NT/2000 only, all should be simple -
BeginUpdateResource UpdateResource EndUpdateResource.
I talk "should be", because I updated icons only (RT_ICONGROUP, then RT_ICON).

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[Gregery D Engle]

Semen,

No, it will be on windows 95, 98 and nt, win2k too.

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-Greg

[Semen Matusovski]

Greg --
If for any OS, simple is to update in-place only.I mean
1) To read ExeFile into string variable , let's say a
2) hLib = LoadLibraryEx (ExeFile, ByVal 0, %LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE)
3) to find a handle of resource (hRes).
4) Mid$(a, LockResource(hRes) - hLib + 2, SizeOfResource(hLib, hRes)) = ...




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[Gregery D Engle]

Semen,

I'm not sure I completly understand, I always thought that there
where API's for this.

What if I put a program icon in the EXE that is bigger then the
only that already resides in the EXE (in byte size)?

The same with the version information?


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-Greg

[Egbert Zijlema]

Gregery,

Maybe my article at www.basicguru.com/zijlema/version.html contains some useful information on version retrieval?

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[Semen Matusovski]

Greg --
Take a look http://codeguru.earthweb.com/misc/resources.html to have impression, what means to update resource in 9x

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