Icons for a VST Addin

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Hi:

I'd like to make the new windows of my addin look as native as possible by reusing the same icons as I see in similar windows. When I first created by addin project, VST immediately populated a Resources folder with a bunch of icons. However, not everything I see in GP is present. I remember back in the day that I could use Visual Studio to open EXEs and DLLs to look at and even grab icon resources, but I'm not having any luck. In which file(s) do these resources live in and how can I get them? Is this even an option or am I breaking T&C in any way? Note that my addin is custom and not destined for resale.

Thanks,

Paul

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Tim Wappat 5,711 on at

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You can still do it...

In Visual Studio Go to

File>Open>File

Look for GPIcons.dll in your GP install, click open

You will see a tree view,

Then open the icon folder,

Finally, double click an icon of interest...

You will see the icon in the inbuilt visual studio editor for icons.

...there is always the resource explorer in Dex too...

I'll let you decide about the legal position of including these in your internal application...

Tim

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Thanks for pointing out the right file Tim.

That is what I had been trying in VS, but the binary file opens in a binary editor and not as you show in your screenshots. I'm on VS2015... is it perhaps a configurating issue?

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