Useable icons... 1

[Neil Toulouse]

I have 'borrowed' the icons from SHELL32.DLL for use as button graphics on my VFP app.

Is it legal for me to do this?

Neil

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[alvechurchdata]

Is it legal for me to do this?

All your users have Windows so they've all got these icons in the DLL on their PCs. You could write a routine to extract the image from the DLL at runtime and I presume that that would be OK. You however are supplying a different (but apparently identical) image from your own copy of the same DLL.

Lawyers could get rich on a question like this.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[Eguy]

Lawyers could get rich on a question like this.

They have!


After reading the section titled "Distributable and Restricted Visual FoxPro Features and Files" in the VFP help, I know as much now as I did an hour ago.

Ed

Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[Neil Toulouse]

o oh, looks like we could have fun on this one!!

To complicate things more, the are 48x48 icons that I am turning into BMPs and some text to it and then using them for buttons! So would that constitute a different image?

Plus does this icon set only reside in XP (which I am developing on)??

Anyone know of any good graphic artists...!?

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[craigsboyd]

FatSlug,

Why even mess with it or lose sleep over it. Go get XP Icons you want or need on the net for free...

http://www.iconcool.com/xp-icons.htm

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Thanks Craig! If IconCool can 'borrow' them and redistribute them then I guess I am OK!

I spent a lot of time looking for icons before I went down this route, but the ones I wanted that I found had to be paid for!

sorted!



I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[alvechurchdata]

If IconCool can 'borrow' them and redistribute them then I guess I am OK!

Handling stolen goods. Let's be having you down the station sonny.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[craigber]

Visual Studio 2005 ships with the new icons that you can redistribute. I assume they come with the Express version...and it's currently a free beta.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

[Neil Toulouse]

...listen, if Microsoft ask, you haven't seen me...

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[craigsboyd]

Who did you say you were looking for? FatSlug??? The international dealer in extracted icons? Ummmmm... nope, sorry I can't help you.

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Craig - very good mate, keep it up! ;-)

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[awaresoft]

If you have a budget, here are some sources of gorgeous icons:

http://www.awicons.com/stockicons.html

http://www.stockicons.com/

StockIcons.com was suggested by Jos Pols on the UT who recently posted some nice screen shots of his application on the thread "Writing sexy marketable interfaces". Craig has great screen post there as well.

http://www.universalthread.com/wconnect/wc.dll?LevelExtreme~2,15,1015059

Malcolm

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Thanks Malcolm!

I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours...

 

[badukist]

If you have VFP9, check PNGs image libraries from Linux world. You can find a lot which are free, specially themes (KDE,Gnome).
PNG graphics are nice on buttons, because built in transparency.