Extracting icons from an executable

To extract icons from an executable, you must use ExtractIcon API function. It gets 3 parameters:





Instance - Instance of the application


FileName - Name of the executable. Must be a PChar


NumIcon - Number of the icon to be retreaved. If it's Word(-1), the function returns the number of icons in the executable.



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How to Get Dos Environment

To get DOS Environment, you must use GetDosEnvironment API Function.It returns a PChar that can be parsed. Download an example.