Hi,

Is there anyway to load XP icons( not bitmaps ) from resource ?

Xtreme has a very nice function HBITMAP CXTPImageManagerIcon::LoadAlphaIcon(LPCTSTR pszFileName, int nWidth), but it only loads icons from a file.

I build my own LoadAlphaIcon( HINSTANCE h, LPCSTR sid, int w ), but I want to know if it is there anyway simpler to do it, because I had to add the icons to a diferent resource group than ICON.

myresource.rc

<..>

DELETE                IMAGE     DISCARDABLE     "res\delete.ico"

<..>

An this raises another question, why do Visual studio seems to damage( remove alpha layer ) on XP icons when they are added to the ICON group on the resource ?

Thankx

André moreira

In 9.70 was added simple

SetIcon(IconId, CommandId)

That loads alpha icon.

Hi Oleg,

thankx,

But I did no found any sample that actualy loads a XP Icon( with alpha layer ) from the resource( RT_GROUP_ICON ), is there any sample ?

<...>

SetIcon( IDI_ICON, 0x100 ); // where IDI_ICON is a XP Icon

<...>

I did however found a lot of bitmap and toolbars examples but that's not what I need.

Actualy one of the reasons that I insist on icons and not bitmaps, is that the Icon is much easer to deal with and much smaller than bitmaps on the resource, ( it probably have some kind of compression ) ?

And also one the reasons I do not use SetIcon is because I think Visualstudio 6 does not like icons with alpha layer( not just 16milion  ), everytime I add one, the alpha layer is damaged.

That is why I need to see a sample to see how it's done.

André

Hi,

So SetIcon call don't work in your application? Can you attach ico file you use may be problem in it?

Don't open it in Visual Studio IDE and it won't damage it.

Hi Oleg,

A small bug...

HBITMAP CXTPImageManagerIcon::LoadAlphaIcon(LPCTSTR pszFileName, int nWidth)
{

 HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL,
  OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);

 if (!hFile)
  return NULL;

should be...

 if (hFile==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
  return NULL;