Symbol Viewer for Beyond Compare

Humbach Datentechnik provides a free plug-in to the shareware Beyond Compare to compare icon files (.ico) as well as cursors (.cur) W95(IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP. The plugin can work with multi format icon files.  

SymbolViews supports the following features:

• icons wider than 255 by 255 pixel
• all color depths (1 to 32 bpp) even transparency
• alignment of the internal icons in a multi format icon file according to color depth and size to compare the images side by side
• copy and delete for the individual images in the file
• adjustable zooming
• adjustable background color to identify difficult color shades
• detection and correction of errors in the filestructures for size and colors
• one version for all available languages (until now geman and english)

Downloads (self-extracting Zip):

SymbolView for BC 2.X

SymbolView for BC 1.9

History:

• January 2008
  Release 2.0.2 (Symbolview.bcp) in english and german language for W95(IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP
  The current release is now able to work successfully with Vista icons
  
• July 2005 (BC 2.X)
  Release 2.0.0 (SymbolView.bcp) in english and german language for W95(IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP
  Modifications of the interface to BeyondCompare 2.X. Windowpositions are stored.
  
• June 2003 (BC 2.X)
  Release 1.2.3 (SymbolView.bcp) in english und german language for W95(with IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP.
  Rebuild with MFC 7.1 solves problems with missing OLEACC.DLL on some W9X systems.
  
• February 2003 (BC 2.X)
  Release 1.2.2 (SymbolView.bcp) in english und german language for W95(with IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP.
  new keyboard commands, bug fixes for 32bpp XP-Icons and minor GUI changes.
  
• July 2002 (BC 2.X)
  Release 1.2.1 (SymbolView.bcp) in english und german language for W95(with IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP.
  support of the new plugin interface of BC2.
  
• March 2002 (BC 1.9)
  Release 1.1.0.1 (SymbolView.dll & SymbolView.exe) in english und german language for W95(IE4.0)/W98/NT/2000/XP.
  covering some problems with W9X.
  
• October 2001 (BC 1.9)
  Release 1.1.0.1 (BCIconView.dll) in english und german language for NT/2000/XP.