Windows shell32 animations

This is a followon post from the ‘It’s all made out of pipes‘ post from a week or two ago.

Here’s a bunch of other AVIs that are embedded in the SHELL32.DLL, if you want to steal one of them to embed in a dialog box. I’ve converted them all into animated GIF form for the purposes of this post.

AVI resources in Windows XP SHELL32.DLL

Resource ID	Description	Size	Transparent GIF
150	Torch over folder	80×50
151	Magnifying glass over document	16×16
152	Magnifying glass over monitor	16×16
160	Folder to folder file move	272×60
161	Folder to folder file copy	272×60
162	Folder to recycle bin	272×60
163	Recycle bin file delete	304×60
164	Folder file delete	304×60
165	Set multiple file attributes	272×60
166	Magnifying glass over globe	32×32
167	Folder to folder file move	272×60
168	Folder to folder file copy	272×60
169	Folder file delete	304×60
170	Globe to folder download	272×60

You should be able to reference these animations directly using just the DLL name and Resource ID, but if you want to grab the AVIs directly (in order to convert them into animated GIFs and dump them in a blog), then you can extracted them using the Nirsoft ResourcesExtract utility, which looks a bit like this:

If you’re working with the AVIs directly, you’ll probaly notice that they have a lurid background colour to represent transparent pixels in order to support the ability (on Windows XP) to theme your desktop, so for example resource ID 160 looks like this:

but because I’m nice I’ve converted them to use GIF transparency above.