Hi,


I can change the icon for a folder by right clicking on it > going to the
customize tab > and selecting Choose Picture.


Does anyone know if it is possible to do this programmatically from a
windows forms application?


Thanks


Phil

Phil Hey wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I can change the icon for a folder by right clicking on it > going to the
> customize tab > and selecting Choose Picture.
>
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do this programmatically from a
> windows forms application?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Phil
>
>

Maybe if you change the registry entry at:
hkey_classes_root\folder\DefaultIcon

That where I think the icon definition is stored.
--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v.

> Maybe if you change the registry entry at:
> hkey_classes_root\folder\DefaultIcon
>
> That where I think the icon definition is stored.
> --


Yes, but I dont want to change all the folders just certain ones, thanks
anyway

Phil

Phil Hey wrote:

>>Maybe if you change the registry entry at:
>>hkey_classes_root\folder\DefaultIcon
>>
>>That where I think the icon definition is stored.
>>--
>
>
>
> Yes, but I dont want to change all the folders just certain ones, thanks
> anyway
>
> Phil
>
>
I don't think you can since Windows displays the icons according to
filetype. A folder is just a folder to Windows. So it will look up the
icon there and display it. Just like you can't display icon A for one
textfile(.txt) and icon B for another textfile(.txt). So unless you make
a shortcut and change the icon of that I can't see a way.

I might be wrong though, in that case I would love to see how it's done
--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v.

Phil Hey wrote:
> I can change the icon for a folder by right clicking on it > going to the
> customize tab > and selecting Choose Picture.

I think if you have an image inside the folder called folder.jpg Windows
will automatically use this for the folder image. You could copy this in
in your code. Not sure if this helps at all.

Rinze Wrote:
> I don't think you can since Windows displays the icons according to
> filetype.

You can definatelly do this (manually at least) for individual folders
rather than all folders as i am looking at an example of this now. Maybe if
I explain the situation it will help:

I have a drive on the server called Jobs (j in this drive I have folders
for each of the jobs lablled 'J1194' for example. When, in my application, a
job is made in-active i want this folder to appear with a red cross through
it to in dicate that it is closed.

elzico wrote:
> I think if you have an image inside the folder called folder.jpg Windows
> will automatically use this for the folder image. You could copy this in
> in your code. Not sure if this helps at all.

Ok, I have tried this and it works but only if you are viewing the folders
in Thumbnail view not in any of the other views.

Anyway thanks for the help

Phil

Hi Phil

For the Thumbnails view, you should get a picture showing automatically. If
you set an icon for other views, then you get a Desktop.ini file created in
the folder, with this as the content:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=21

This code creates the file and works...cool!

Dim fs As New IO.FileStream("C:\Test\Desktop.ini", IO.FileMode.Create)
Dim tw As New IO.StreamWriter(fs)
tw.WriteLine("[.ShellClassInfo]")
tw.WriteLine("IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll")
tw.WriteLine("IconIndex = 21")
tw.Close()
fs.Close()

HTH

Nigel
"Phil Hey" wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I can change the icon for a folder by right clicking on it > going to the
> customize tab > and selecting Choose Picture.
>
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do this programmatically from a
> windows forms application?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Phil
>
>
>

Phil Hey wrote:
>
> You can definatelly do this (manually at least) for individual folders
> rather than all folders as i am looking at an example of this now. Maybe if
> I explain the situation it will help:
>
> I have a drive on the server called Jobs (j in this drive I have folders
> for each of the jobs lablled 'J1194' for example. When, in my application, a
> job is made in-active i want this folder to appear with a red cross through
> it to in dicate that it is closed.
>

That may be something XP specific I think. On this Win98 computer I
can't change the icon for a specific folder. But elzico might be on to
something.

--
Rinze van Huizen
C-Services Holland b.v.

Nigel you are an absolute legend, thanks. :-)

One thing of note is that the folder must be a system folder (whatever that
means). Here is a link to a knowledge base article with some info :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ing/custom.asp

Phil

"Nigel Armstrong" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:CDC30936-7F9C-42F3-A091-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Phil
>
> For the Thumbnails view, you should get a picture showing automatically.
> If
> you set an icon for other views, then you get a Desktop.ini file created
> in
> the folder, with this as the content:
>
> [.ShellClassInfo]
> IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
> IconIndex=21
>
> This code creates the file and works...cool!
>
> Dim fs As New IO.FileStream("C:\Test\Desktop.ini",
> IO.FileMode.Create)
> Dim tw As New IO.StreamWriter(fs)
> tw.WriteLine("[.ShellClassInfo]")
> tw.WriteLine("IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll")
> tw.WriteLine("IconIndex = 21")
> tw.Close()
> fs.Close()
>
> HTH
>
> Nigel
> "Phil Hey" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I can change the icon for a folder by right clicking on it > going to the
>> customize tab > and selecting Choose Picture.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to do this programmatically from a
>> windows forms application?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>