System Image List

[oldfoots]

How can I get an ICON for a specific Windows Program from the System Image List into an image on a form?

 

[LastCyborg]

Seems there aren't ideas.

I don't know how to make exactly what u want, but it works fine.

Copy the screen (hitting the key) and the copy to an image editor, cut the image that u want and save it as an icon, bitmap o whatever u want.

--- LastCyborg ---

 

[oldfoots]

Thanks for the tip. If all else fails I will do that. However, I am trying to make a game menu program and I would like to automate the process. Currently on p18, cag3 gave a code snippet to question "get icon from api". I seem be be able to get the handle of the System Image List and the index of the ICON that I want from that list. What I am missing is how to get the ICON from the System Image List to an Image List on my form. From what I've been able to research, I should be able to do it using ImageList commands but nothing I've tried seems to work.

 

[oldfoots]

Finally figured it out. Code supplied below. Functions are in <shellapi.h>

Graphics::TIcon *myIcon = new Graphics::TIcon();
HIMAGELIST SystemImageListHandle;
HICON SytemImageListIconHandle;
SHFILEINFO FileInfo;

if (OpenDialog1->Execute())
{
// Get Large Icon System Image List Handle
SystemImageListHandle = (HIMAGELIST)SHGetFileInfo(
OpenDialog1->FileName.c_str(),
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
&FileInfo,
sizeof(FileInfo),
SHGFI_SYSICONINDEX |SHGFI_LARGEICON);
// SHFILEINFO contains Handle of the Icon (hIcon) and the index of the
// Icon (iIcon) in the Large Icon System Image List. For Small Icon use
// SHGFI_SMALLICON in place of SHGFI_LARGEICON.

// Extract Icon from the Image List
SytemImageListIconHandle = ImageList_GetIcon(
SystemImageListHandle,
FileInfo.iIcon,
ILD_NORMAL);
// Set myIcon
myIcon->Handle = SytemImageListIconHandle;
// Display myIcon in Image1
Image1->Picture->Icon = myIcon;
}
else
{
ShowMessage(&quot;File Dialog would not open&quot;
}