Has anyone actually done it so when a war3 user joins the channel it displays his current icon instead of just the war3 icon?
if so could ya point me in the right direction.

I think u'd have to get every character icon things into a ImageList, and when the statstring is recieves saying which icon the user has, make it display the approprite icon.

http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/war3-ladder-info-laddericons.aspx there are the war3 icons if you need them

Or if you have War3, just take screenshots of them ;-)

well thanks for someone actually posting on the topic. i guess i forgot to mention, im confused on HOW to do this, all the images are in my imglist and now its actually displaying them which is my problem ;\

I haven't ever parsed a Warcraft 3 statstring, but I would assume that the user-icon would be in the user's statstring.

Also, are the user-icons static, or are they stored in a downloadable file? I'd check myself, but I don't have a machine which can run WarCraft 3 with packet logs...

they're static, in the mpq

IIRC, War3 downloads a special version of icons.bni, which it doesn't use at all

Yea, it only ever seems to contain the byte 'Z'.