I have encountered two problems in using Icons in a RES file and I was
hoping someone could help.

1.  In Win95, .ICO files can contain both a 16x16 and a 32x32
representation of the same icon.  When you load the icon resource from the
resource file, how can you specify which of the representations gets used?

2.  I have assigned an icon to one of my forms and specified that form for
the application icon.  This icon appears as the application icon in both
the title bar and the task bar, but a different icon appears as the
application icon in Windows Explorer for the .EXE file.  The icon displayed
is one of the other icon resources in the .RES file.  If I remove the .RES
file from my project, Explorer displays the correct icon for the .EXE file.
 Following is as extract from my .RC file.

        10 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella1.ICO"
        11 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella2.ICO"
        12 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella3.ICO"
        13 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella4.ICO"
        14 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella5.ICO"
        15 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella6.ICO"
        16 ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella7.ICO"

        ClsUmb ICON PRELOAD "Umbrella8.ICO"

        Hpyfce ICON PRELOAD "HapyFace.ICO"
        Keybrd ICON PRELOAD "Keyboard.ICO"
        Rocket ICON PRELOAD "Rocket1.ICO"

The icon Explorer displays for the .EXE file is ClsUmb.  If I add another
named icon before ClsUmb, it becomes the icon for the .EXE file.  Can
anyone explain what and why this is happening?

3.  How can one offer a selection of icons for users to choose from as the
.EXE icon?  In Win3.x you could occasionally see a selection of icons for
the application in the <Alt-Enter> dialog box (the equivalent of Win95
properties dialog).

Answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

T.F. Belliveau   (Dr. T.)

One way to solve this problem is to save the different formats of the icons
as different .ico files and give them different identifiers in the resource
file.  Just load the one that you want.