If the resource item to be replaced is an icon, cursor, or a bitmap, the source can be an *.ico, *.cur or *.bmp/gif/png file respectively. The source can also be pasted from the clipboard.

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1. Expand the 'Bitmap' folder (it can also be 'GIF', 'PNG', 'Cursor', 'Icon' etc). Programs compiled using the Borland VCL store images in a resource type named RCData. See "How to edit Delphi forms"
2. Select the graphic resource item to be replaced in the Resource Tree.
3. With this bitmap resource, select the 'Save Resource As...' button from the button bar (first button from left) and save the file to your desktop.

4. Use AWicons icon editor to edit icon (.ICO) images, or your favourite graphics editing program to edit other graphic file types. Make sure that your new image is no bigger that the image it is replacing.
5. Back inside Resorce Tuner, highlight resource item to be replaced and click on the Resource Editor button on the button bar (third button from left).
6. Select the Open Source File button (Ctrl+O) from the button bar as illustrated below and select your edited file. Or paste the image from the clipboard (Ctrl+V).

7. Press OK to close the Resource Editor and select 'File' -> 'Save File As ...' to save the changes you've just made to the target file. If warned that the image size has changed, click "Yes" from the next dialog box to update the file size.

When replacing icons and cursors, make certain that the replacement sources are the same size and have the same number of colors as the item to be replaced (e.g. a 16x16 4 bit icon can not be replaced with a 32x32 8 bit icon).

If you need to update existing icons, or add new ones for several hundred files, you are more than likely going to want some way to implement this with a batch file. Whenever large numbers of files have to be processed or to be accessible through scripting / batching, you need Resource Tuner Console.

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