Best way to make a component icon in Delphi XE using only the built in tools

Question

In Delphi 7, an image editor program is included, which can read and write .dcr files, which are merely binary resource files (.res files) with a

Answer 1

I have used and had great success with:

• Colin Wilson's XN Resource Editor
• Anders Melander's Resource Editor

Update

I just tried the following, in XE, and was successful.

• I created a new component, TNewAnimate, in NewAnimates.pas.
• I added TNewAnimate.pas to dclusr.dpk.
• I added a bitmap (called TMRUComboBox.bmp, I just had that around anyway) using the Project → Resources and Images... dialog to the .dpk and gave it the name TNEWANIMATE.
• I re-installed dclusr.dpk.

The source file for dclusr.pdk got a new entry {$R *.dres} (note the extension). I could see the TNewAnimate in the Samples palette with the glyph in TMRUComboBox.bmp.

I located dclusr.dres in the same directory as dclusr.dpk (which is normally under C:\Program Files, but not in my setup). I tried to open it with XN Resource Editor, but that refused to open it with a cryptic error message. It is not a normal .res file, it seems.