Re: How to place a 'system' icon on a dialog?

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:24:59 GMT

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"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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"xrxst32" <martin.dangelmeyr@dcx.com> wrote in message
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You can load the system icons (e.g. exclamation mark) with

HICON hIcon = ::LoadIcon(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_EXCLAMATION));

then do what ever you like with it, e.g. assign to a picture control
in your dialog.

Totally cool! :-)

LoadIcon() is notorious for loading only the 16 color icon, but it does seem
to load the true color one in this case. Still, since LoadIcon() is
deprecated, I tried to use the equivalent LoadImage(). Trouble is,
LoadImage() expects something like OIC_BANG, which is defined in WinUser.h,
but only if OEMRESOURCE is defined. Apparently it is not defined by
default. And even when explicitly

#define OEMRESOURCE
#include <winuser.h>

it still doesn't compile. So I was unable to get this to work with
LoadImage(), although LoadIcon() does give the desired results (I don't know
why because I've had nothing but problems getting the true color version of
the icon using LoadImage before).

Thanks,
David (MVP)