You forgot. James D. Moore was using ExtractIconEx, not ExtractIcon.
> Hi James!
> Here is some code I just cut out of my project. Its not ready for running
> (some variables may not be declared) but I think you see how it works.
> =====================================
> 'This code do I have in a separet module
> Private Declare Function GetClassWord Lib "User32" (ByVal hWnd As Long,
> ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
> Private Declare Function ExtractIcon Lib "SHELL32" Alias "ExtractIconA"
> (ByVal hInst As Long, ByVal lpszexename As String, ByVal hIcon As Long)
As
> Long
> Private Declare Function DrawIcon Lib "User32" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal
x
> As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal hIcon As Long) As Long
> Private Const GCW_HMODULE = (-16)
> Public Function GetIcon(strFileName As String, picPictureControl As
Object,
> lnghWnd As Long) As Boolean
> 'H?mtar ikonen i program
> Dim myhInst As Long, hIcon As Long
> Dim r As Long
> GetIcon = True
> picPictureControl.Picture = LoadPicture("") ' Clear the previous
> image.
> myhInst = GetClassWord(lnghWnd, GCW_HMODULE)
> ' Get handle to icon.
> hIcon = ExtractIcon(myhInst, strFileName, 0)
> If hIcon = 0 Then
> GetIcon = False
> Exit Function
> End If
> picPictureControl.AutoRedraw = -1 ' Make the picture's hDC point
to
> the
> ' persistent bitmap.
> r = DrawIcon(picPictureControl.hDC, 0, 0, hIcon)
> picPictureControl.Refresh ' Cause Windows to paint from the
> persistent bitmap
> ' to show the icon.
> End Function
> =============================================
> 'This is the code that puts the icon in a imagelist
> Dim twpX, twpY As Long
> twpX = Screen.TwipsPerPixelX
> twpY = Screen.TwipsPerPixelY
> frmMain.picImage.Width = 32 * twpX
> frmMain.picImage.Height = 32 * twpY
> frmMain.picIcon.Width = 32 * twpX
> frmMain.picIcon.Height = 32 * twpY
> RetVal = GetIcon(cmdline, frmMain.picIcon, frmMain.hWnd)
> If RetVal = True Then
> frmMain.picImage.Picture = LoadPicture("")
> frmMain.picImage.CurrentY = 0
> frmMain.picImage.CurrentX = 0
> frmMain.picImage.Picture = frmMain.picIcon.Image
> Set imgX = frmMain.imglstIcons.ListImages.Add(, ,
> frmMain.picImage.Picture)
> =============================================
> As you see I have two pictureboxes, I paint in one and then moves that
> first to another picturebox and then to the imageslist. This works fine,
> remeber to use maskcolor to white (or what color you have for backround
in
> the control you have the listimage connected to).
> Hope this helps!
> /Patrik
> > I am trying to get The ExtractIconEx API call to work. I have
> > successfully taken the images and placed them in a picturebox and them
> > used the image property to move the image to a imagelist control.
> > The problem I am having is that on the standard icons I seem to be
losing
> > the last row of pixels, and on the small Icons they are much smaller
than
> > the small icons in the Explorer Shell. They appear to be 8x8. The
code
> > I am using to do this follows:
> > ' Extract Icons
> > hIcon = ExtractIconEx(pszFileName$, niIndex, hLargeIcon, hSmallIcon, 1)
> > ' Put Icons into imagelists
> > niResult = DrawIconEx(picIcon.hdc, 0, 0, hSmallIcon, 16, 16, 0, _
> > nlBrush, DI_IMAGE)
> > ilstSmall.ListImages.Add 1, .OLEType, picIcon.Image
> > niResult = DrawIconEx(picIcon.hdc, 0, 0, hLargeIcon, 32, 32, 0, _
> > nlBrush, DI_IMAGE)
> > ilstLarge.ListImages.Add 1, .OLEType, picIcon.Image
> > Is this the appropriate method for getting icons and putting them into
an
> > image list? Is there a better way? and Why am I having this strang
> > problem with then small icons?
> > Is GetAssociatedIcon a better choice?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > James Moore
> > Sr Systems Developer,
> > Nabisco
Problem using ExtractIconEx with ListView