I am writing an app which will use (and change) icons on controls.

It is currently working with 120 ".ico" files which suck up a lot of disk
space and make the directory look busy.

I would appreciate any pointers from you experts out there to a routine which
would allow reading, writing, and updating icon data to a single random access
file.

I have tried "picclip", "listview", "listimage", and resource files and none
of these routines seems to allow a rewrite of a changed icon (or bitmap) under
user program control.

It seems to me that you should be able to "field" a buffer and point it's
contents to the "picture" property of an object, but I cannot find out
anything about the subject of performing your own reads/writes on bitmap data.

Any Ideas ??

Thanks,

Whipple

You can try to put these into a C++ resource files are create a dummy dll
files which will then holds all ofr your icons.

Gary Smith.

I would suggest that you put them in a resource file and use the VB
function LoadResPicture to retrieve them.

Look up LoadResPicture in the VB help files.

Regards,

Keith Benedict
Software Engineer
CCI/Triad Systems

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