Create Icon from GIF file

[cfcanter]

I've created a little program that is going onto the CEO's desk. Therefore, I want it to be really really cool.

A requirement is to place a shortcut on the desktop opening the program. I have searched the web and found a gif file of the particular piece of equipment this program analyzes. I want to transfer the gif file to the icon. How do I do that?

thanks
Craig Canter
Cost Accountant
Sipex
Milpitas, CA

 

[dsi]

There is a program called 'Any to Icon' that converts images to icon files. There is a trial version, but I do not know if gif files are available for conversion with the unlicensed program.

http://www.aha-soft.com/download.htm,

http://www.iconutils.com/download.htm.

I know that someone has posted VB code to convert bmp files to icons, but that is somewhere in the VB 5&6 forum.