TrueColor Icon Editor

for Windows 98/ME/NT4/200x/XP and Vista

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I make transparent areas in my icon?

Use right mouse button to paint with "transparent" color. Areas painted with transparent color will be transparent in your saved icon files. By default, transparent color is white. If you want both white and transparent areas in your icon, then you have to select another transparent color.

How do I make smooth edges in my icon?

Use "File | Save As..." menu command and select "TrueColor (32 bit) Icon - Auto Smooth Edges" icon format. The edges between transparent and non-transparent areas will be automatically smoothed (semi-transparent pixels added) so that your icon will have less sharp edges.

When you open such icon back with IconEdit2, semi-transparent pixels may have slightly different color. Thus, use this option only as final step of an icon production. Save your work copy as 32-bit or 24-bit icon without the Auto Smooth Edges option.

What are the differences between Basic and Professional licenses?

Basic license allows to save 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 icons only.
Professional license allows in addition to save 24x24, 64x64, 96x96, and 128x128 icons.
All other features are identical.

Camera tool brings up a message box saying "Cannot open clipboard".

Make sure that you do not have some Clipboard-related software, e.g. "Office Clipboard" feature of Microsoft Office XP running. The Camera tool of IconEdit2 icon editor uses the Windows Clipboard. Software that makes Windows Clipboard work in a non-standard way may cause this problem.

How do I get drawing color from the screen outside the IconEdit2?

- Use Camera tool to make a snapshot of a screen area, which contains the needed color;
- Then use Color Thermometer tool to pick the needed color from IconEdit2 drawing area;
- Then click Undo button to restore your icon image.

My truecolor icons look wrong under Windows NT4.

Windows NT™ 4.0 does not support TrueColor icons. Save the icon in 256-color or 16-color format; or upgrade to Windows 2000™ or Windows XP™.

My registration code does not work.

Possibly, you have upgraded from an older version of IconEdit2. For IconEdit2 v4.0-v5.0, the registration keys were changed. Contact Dmitry Kozhinov at support@iconedit2.com to get your new registration key. Please supply your order ID.

Camera tool causes IconEdit2 to close.

The common reason for this error is using an illegal registration code with IconEdit2 v2.3. To remove the invalid registration code please download the file unreg.zip, unzip it, and run unreg.reg file; after that, your IconEdit2 v2.3 should work fine with the Camera tool. The best solution would be to upgrade to the latest version of IconEdit2 icon editor (currently v5.0). You can download it from here.

Can I save icons back into EXE or DLL file?

No. You can extract icons from EXE and DLL files, but you can save them only as ICO, BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG files. To save the icon into an EXE or DLL you can use any resource editor like Borland Resource Workshop.

Can I create cursors with IconEdit2?

No. You can create TrueColor, 256-color and 16-color ICO files, as well as GIF, TIFF, BMP, JPEG and PNG files.

"File|Send to AOL Instant Messenger™" menu command is not working.

Please check your AIM version. This command is working for AIM version 5.x, and should work for earlier versions of AIM made by AOL. If you are using Netscape version of AIM, then use AIM menu to set buddy icon. AIM Triton users: Current version of AIM Triton does not support custom buddy icons. AOL is working on this issue - the latest beta version of AIM Triton has this functionality - see http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=triton .

IconEdit2 crashes my system.

IconEdit2 has been tested on various hardware and software systems, including Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista RC1. It has never crashed. Try the following:

Make sure you have installed the latest Microsoft certified version of your videocard driver. See the homepage of your videocard manufacturer, drivers section.
Get a fresh download of the latest (v5.0) IconEdit2 icon editor and reinstall it;
Virus-check your computer;
Do a hardware test - maybe you have unstable RAM or some other hardware problem;
If you are using Windows NT, make sure that you have the latest Service Pack installed.

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