Is there any way to export icon files from MLO?

[John . Smith]

Hello

Is there any way to extract icon files from MLO?

Background

About a year ago, using a different PC, I found and uploaded some .ico files into my MLO. The problem is that I have now lost the original ".ICO" files, plus although my icons are in use as my Flag icons, I now wish to use them as "Icons" in the Icons column... however, when I try to change or allocate icons, there is no sign of my icons anywhere!  

If only I could export my flag icons out of MLO, then presumably I could re-upload them as Icons for use in the Icons column.

J

[Steve Kunkel]

I've noticed that exporting your conditional formatting rules will also export the associated icons.  Does this help?

[John . Smith]

Nice try but no cigar.

Exporting conditional rules doesn't work because the conditional formatting rules can't see my custom/added icons that I am using on my Flags. That's the whole point! 

Meanwhile, I have managed to export the Flags from one MLO data file (.ML) into a new MLO data file, by exporting the Flags as part of an MLO template file (".mlt" extension).
However, it's still the same problem because I can't get my custom icons on my Flags to appear in the "Icons Library". And for that reason so that the Icons AutoFormatting can't see them either.

J 

[John . Smith]

OK it's annoying but I think I'm going to have to rebuild my icons from scratch. 

To save me time - does it matter what size of .ico file I use?

16x16, 24x24 or 32x32? Or should I build all three?

Cheers

J

[John Smith]

To answer my own question, what I have done is create a 32x32 JPG and then convert it to .ICO icon format using http://icoconvert.com/
Seems to work well so far...

J

[Stéph]

Hello John,

I actually found that I got the best quality, sharpest image if I used 48x48 or 16x16 icon files.

I don't know how to extract the icons from the MLO files, but I've been keeping a copy of my icon files in a subfolder of the ...\mylifeorganized\themes folder.

Regards,

Stéphane

[John . Smith]

I just did a trial. In the column of the main area of screen the icons are being displayed at 16x16 pixels and an icon size of 48x48 came out badly, but 16x16 and 32x32 pixels are indistinguishable.  It's easy to get confused though because as you may know a single .ICO file can contain more than one size of icon. 

[Stéph]

Sorry, should have said: I use 16x16 in the main, task area of the MLO window and 48x48 for the icons for Views and tab headers.

[John . Smith]

Interesting. Fwiw, I just measured the Views and Tab head icons and they are 24x24 pixels on my PC - i.e. exactly half 48x48 pixels.
Do you find it of benefit for those to be 48x48, rather than  24x24?

J

[Stéph]

No, 28x28 would have been fine, I’m sure.