Taking .exe icons and using them in my app.

[Jakman4242]

I'm making a little program that just makes my desktop a whole lot cleaner. To do this, I'm using a listbox dialog. When you select the appropriate item in the list, it opens the program.

I want this to be as dynamic as I possibly can have it. I'd also like it to look very stylish, and display the proper icon in relation to the given program.

So,
Is there any way I can get the icon data from a .exe file, and load it into my ImageList component?

[VictorN]

Originally Posted by Jakman4242

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Is there any way I can get the icon data from a .exe file, and load it into my ImageList component?

Have a look at ExtractIcon(Ex) API

[salehhamadeh]

Read this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...68(VS.85).aspx

[Jakman4242]

After much work(and a huge break from the project) I finally have an HICON handle ready to use.

After lots and lots of searching, I can't seem to find a working method to inject it into my Imagelist control.
Help much appreciated!

[VictorN]

Originally Posted by Jakman4242

... After lots and lots of searching, I can't seem to find a working method to inject it into my Imagelist control.

And how did you try it?

[Jakman4242]

Originally Posted by VictorN

And how did you try it?

Most of it involved trying to get the HICON handle and put that into a Bitmap instance.

The big problem in this was, whenever I tried using the function Bitmap::FromHicon() I'd get the following error, as if the function was protected?

HICON exticon = ExtractIcon(0, str, 0);
Bitmap bmp;
bmp.FromHicon(exticon);
[error C3767: 'System::Drawing::Bitmap::Bitmap': candidate function(s) not accessible]

[VictorN]

Originally Posted by Jakman4242

... The big problem in this was, whenever I tried using the function Bitmap::FromHicon() I'd get the following error, as if the function was protected?

HICON exticon = ExtractIcon(0, str, 0);
Bitmap bmp;
bmp.FromHicon(exticon);
[error C3767: 'System::Drawing::Bitmap::Bitmap': candidate function(s) not accessible]

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