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Text formatting icons - can I download and use in my app?

I want to take advantage of a variety of icons that are exactly the same as the ones used within several Microsoft applications.

I am completing the design of an email generation form with a RichTextBox for the body and want to allow the user to use all of the same options where they click on icons below dropdown menu items. Not only do I want to add the "A" button for the font dialogue, but also the font / font size / indent / bullet / etc. options as they are visible from the Outlook form.

Are these icons and the font/font size tools available to me??? And/otherwie, how can I get them to incorporate into my form(s)??

Sincerely,
Phil Tate

ladarling

Most of those icons are available in the VS2005/2008 image library, which are an optional installation component. Information on their locations can be found:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms247035(VS.80).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms247035.aspx

TSFLLC

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You are correct. MOST but not ALL are available from these locations....and I'm taking advantage of as many as I can.

But there is a handful of them that I am in need of and can't get. Any words of wisdom about these others???

Thanks!
Phil

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omegaomega

Hello, TSFLLC,

You may already have the icons you want. Try looking in the VB installation directory for:

....\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary\VS2005ImageLibrary.zip

(The number "7" may change depending on your version of VB.

Cheers,
Randy

TSFLLC

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ladarling,

I've downloaded Microangelo evaluation. Because I am not familiar with this process.....at this point anyway......what folder/file(s) would you anticipate I look at for the paragraph formatting icons (font, indent, bullets, numbers, etc.).

Thanks in advance!!
Phil

ladarling

Your MS Office installation directory is the most likely spot to check.
By far the greatest number of icons available on a given system, though, will be in the Windows\System32 folder. There may be some equivalent icons for the menu options you want tucked away in one of the Windows dll's stored there.

TSFLLC

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I used Microangelo and scanned my complete hard drive. The font and paragraph tools found in Outlook and Word did not come up in the 8000 image list.

Those are the ones I am especially interested in acquiring. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll award and close the question.

Thanks!
Phil

ladarling

As a last resort, you could always screenshot, cut, and compile to ico (or png, or whatever) using Microangelo Studio or the icon editor built in to VS... lol.
Or, you could pay some graphic artist on rentacoder.com a few bucks to recreate them for you (that is what I usually do, since I am about as artistic as a bag of rocks).

TSFLLC

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I think that one of those two solutions will be what is required.

I'm not exactly Mr. Illustrator or Mr. Photoshop myself either. Thanks for the help!!