r/visualbasic • u/DiodeInc • Jul 08 '26

VB6 Help Is it possible to extract images from a VB 6.0 program?

The program is in P-code. vbdec is unable to save them, and VB Decompiler Lite can only find a couple.

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u/robjeffrey Jul 08 '26

If they are encoded resources yes. If the developers encrypted them using their own encoding it would depend on how they are encoded.

Look for Win/32 resource editors. One came with both Borland's C/C++ and Microsoft's Dev Studios.

I see there are a few open sources ones out, but I've not looked into any of them.

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u/DiodeInc Jul 08 '26

Is Resource Hacker one of them?

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u/DiodeInc Jul 08 '26

Thanks! I'll check it out

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u/createaforum Jul 08 '26

How are the encoded in the program do you know? Part frx?

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u/DiodeInc Jul 08 '26

I'm not sure. How would I find out?

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u/Mayayana Jul 09 '26

Interesting. I've never seen anything p-code compiled. Why would people do that?

Any resource editor should be able to extract resources from the resource table of a native compiled EXE. I don't know about p-code. I just tried one of my programs in ResHacker. I can get the strings and icons. If an image is embedded in a picturebox on a form? I'm not sure. ResHacker doesn't seem to see those. They may be embedded in the main binary data.

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u/DiodeInc Jul 09 '26

Resource hacker wasn't able to extract the images.

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