[python-win32] Extract icon from exe files

[EISEN Nicolas]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> EISEN Nicolas wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> After search, I found many function to get Handler from exe (or dll)
>> file icons . But I don’t understand how use the Handler …
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> />>> Import win32gui
>>     
>>>>> i= win32gui.ExtractIcon(0,'e:\\dxdiag.exe',0)
>>>>> icon = win32gui.LoadIcon ( i , 0)/
>>>>>           
>> Or with ExtractIconEx to get a list of all icons, I’m always with many
>> Handlers without knowing how to save or write it in file.
>>
>> The finality is to extract the exe file icon, and next, save the
>> picture on the disk.
>>     
>
> Why do you want to do this?  Icons are intellectual property.  Unless
> it's an open source app, you can't just scrape a bunch of icons from
> existing applications and gather them into a library.  It's not legal.
>
> Having said that, a few minutes with Google and MSDN would have answered
> this question.  LoadIcon returns an HICON.  You can pass that to
> GetIconInfo to return an ICONINFO structure, which includes the two
> bitmaps that you need to draw an icon.  An icon always includes two
> bitmaps: one is a monochrome bitmap that digs the hole for the color
> image, and the other is the color image.  Those are HBITMAP handles. 
> You can then use GetBitmapBits to get the actual pixels.
>
> It's possible this might be easier in C.
>
>   
Thanks you

I understand I will use these functions, but my problem is to found how? 
I have difficulties to understand how use the arguments : I try some 
combinations and it's doesn't work.

Two big problems:

1 – When I read MSDN’s API for LoadIcon, How I designed which exe Files 
I will use ? The first argument is “handle to an instance of the module 
whose executable file contains the icon to be loaded”: How I can 
instantiate the handle, I didn’t found any constructor.

I think the second argument will be: win32con.|IDI_APPLICATION|

2 – My current script:

> >>     import win32gui,win32con

     hicon = LoadIcon(0, win32con.IDI_APPLICATION)

     inconinfo =  GetIconInfo(hicon)

But my last problem is I didn’t found the python module for 
GetBitmapBits() function ...

Again, Thanks you for help me