This archive contains a collection of 42 Palmtop icons which have
been converted from original Windows icons by the program
IBROWSE (v2.0).

These icons serve three functions:

- to provide you with a bunch of new icons to play with,
- to demonstrate the capabilities of the IBROWSE program
  (which I wrote), and
- to save you the trouble of converting some of the more
  common Windows icons into Palmtop icons.

If you feel that the perfect icon that you needed just yesterday has
been omitted through some gross oversight, you can create your own!
All you have to do is download a copy of the IBROWSE program
from the HPHAND forum (if you haven't already done so - shame on you!),
and use it to convert that favorite Windows icon.
Actually it'll probably be a little more complicated than that.
The process for creating a Palmtop icon from a Windows icon
is as follows:

- First decide on the icon.

- Next, isolate the icon file.  Some Windows icons exist in files
  that contain nothing but the icon (.ICO files), but most
  are embedded within the executable file (.EXE) that they
  represent, and if they are they have to be extracted.  You
  need some popular Windows icon editor that has the capability
  of extracting the icon from a Windows .EXE or .DLL (or .NIL)
  file and creating a standalone icon file (.ICO).  I used the
  icon editor that came with Symantec's Norton Desktop for Windows
  (a truly fine icon editor).

- Next, copy the file to your Palmtop.

- Next, run the IBROWSE program (version 2.0 or higher), and
  pull up the Windows icon file you had just copied to your Palmtop.
  Play with the colour mappings a little until the monochrome
  version of your colour Windows icon looks like you want it to,
  then save the converted image as a new Palmtop file (using the
  F8 - Convert key).

That's it - you've got a new Palmtop icon.  Simple isn't it?
This was exactly the process I used to create all the enclosed
icons.  The whole set of 42 took about an hour to process altogether,
including the exporting from the Windows EXEs and the
experimentation with the colour mappings (it's different for every
icon).

Anyway, enjoy!


Mark Virtue
Sydney, Australia
Compuserve ID: 100353,3254

February 1995
