[haiku-3rdparty-dev] Re: Getting svg icons out of an rdef file
- From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-3rdparty-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 23:53:57 -0800
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:57:37PM -0700, ryanmk54 . wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Pete Goodeve <
> pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I thought that Icon-O-Matic would read an icon rdef file, but
> apparently not...
> > >
> > > However, the (text) icon data in the rdef is just a hex representation
> > > of the (original) binary hvif, which Icon-O-Matic *will* read.
> > >
> > > So -- as a service to the community (:-)) -- I present a little Ruby
> script
> > > that converts an rdef (containing *only* the 'VICN' section) back into
> > > an hvif, "rdef2hvif.rb":
> > > [....]
> >
> > Thank you Pete. Your script worked perfectly. I now have all the
> > hvifs that were in the resources file converted to svg
> >
> Excellent! Glad it solved your problem.
>
> This probably should be a generally available facility. It seems like
> something people might want to do. Better as an executable, though,
> rather than needing an interpreter folks may not have.
>
> I imagine a C++ version wouldn't be all that much bigger. I just
> prefer Ruby for quick iterative development. If someone else
> feels like writing it, feel free... (:-)) Otherwise I might get round to
> it sometime. Or would this make a good GSoC task?
>
> -- Pete --
>
>
Pete,
Put the code up on Github or Bitbucket and give us the url and we will put
together a recipe for it. Ruby is fine.
Also, maybe consider putting the code for your many other projects up on
github, or bitbucket.
-scott
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