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 investigated the previous responses using Delphi XE5 upd2. Not much success. So I tried to build a new solution and found one derived from previous answers.

In short: 1. Create your bitmap using Windows Paint program. 2. Create a resource script file with the bitmap. 3. Compile the script with BRCC32 to produce the dcr file 4. Include the dcr file into the package source 5. Recompile/Install the package

To automate this, it is enough to add the BRCC32 command line into the package project "pre-build events". This way, you dcr file will be recreated before each build.

For a detailed description, see my blog at http://francois-piette.blogspot.be/2014/02/howto-create-dcr-file-for-your-delphi.html