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Topic: Trouble visualizing 2 icon formats

Posted By: EMoscosoCam
Subject: Trouble visualizing 2 icon formats
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 3:57pm

(Using version 10.1)

I have an .ico file with 2 formats within: A 16x16 icon and a 24x24 icon, both with a color depth of 256. I intend to use both icon formats from this file using the following procedure:

1) Load the icon file into the Resource File associated to my VB 6 project.

2) Instantiate a StdPicture object from the resource file using the LoadResPicture() function.

3) Pass the handle of the icon to the ShortcutBar control from the StdPicture object.

I would expect the shortcutbar control to show both icon formats accordingly, but the 16x16 format is shown in the 24x24 place (a non-hidden item) and this format is shrinken in order to show it the 16x16 place (a hidden item); that is, the 24x24 format is ignored.

Is this a normal behaviour of the ShortcutBar control? How can I show both icon formats from the same file?

Thanks a lot in advanced.

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 8:46pm

Hi,

StdPicture can't load 2 icons, so it load only one icon and pass its handle to ShortcutBar.

As solution divide Icon to 2 icons.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: EMoscosoCam
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:27pm

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Since an item has only a single IconHandle property, how can I pass a handle for 2 icon formats?

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 August 2006 at 11:33pm

As I wrote you can't - StdPicture can hold only 1 handle....

create 2 icons - myiconssmall.ico + myiconlarge.ico

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS