Choosing icons

[Krazitchek]

Hi, how to navigate between icons stored in shell32.dll
(or other .dll), choose one of them with the index, and
one particular format of the choosen icon (16 colors, 256
colors, XP) ?

How to know the number of icons in the file ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Oren Novotny]

Krazitcheck,

Take a look at the Win32 API functions ExtractIcon and ExtractIconEx. With
certain sets of parameters, it will return the total number of icons in the
library; with others it will return all the handles for the icons.

One important thing to note--for *every* handle you get back, you should use
Icon.FromHandle to encapsulate it, as that'll ensure that the CLR will free
the handles when they go out of scope.

--Oren