How to get a JPEG from a favicon file?

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Tue Apr 3 09:37:12 EDT 2007


Hi Mark,

Thanks for the pointer.
Unfortunately, an ico file is not recognized as an image file by Rev  
and does not seem to have any specific header :-(
I'm stuck...

Le 3 avr. 07 à 14:37, Mark Schonewille a écrit :

> Hi Eric,
>
> If you're lucky, the format of the favicon file is in a well-known  
> picture format, like PNG, GIF etc. You should be able to check the  
> headers of the file and treat it accordingly. Just set the  
> imagedata of your image object to the data of the ico file.
>
> If you're not lucky, the file is really in ico format. It is  
> possible to analyse it and eventually display it in an image  
> object, but I haven't done that myself. I would be interested  
> though...
>
> Best,
>
> Mark


Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
----------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/
eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------





More information about the use-livecode mailing list