Re: Does VS2005 import XP icons properly?

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:56:34 -0700

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I've never seen this happen, but I have tons of hi-res icons with alpha
channel being used. I'll try some tests today and see if I can reproduce
it... It certainly sounds like your icons should work. Have you tried
loading any of them just to display on a dialog to see what happens?

Tom

"bogdan" <bogdan@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ef5Niu7aHHA.4312@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Thanks for replying.

I've been very careful not to open the icon in VS. The following is what
I did:
1. Copied the icon file to app's res folder
2. Edited app's resource file (.rc) with notepad and put a reference to
the icon
e.g. IDR_MAINFRAME ICON "res\\ICS client.ico"
3. Deleted debug\release folders (including *.res files)
4. Opened the app's solution and rebuild it

Still, when the app runs, the icon on the title bar and on the desktop's
task bar is drawn with a lot of noise on the edges. One thing I noticed
is that - for whatever reason - the app does not pick up 16x16 image for
the title bar and the task bar. Instead, it renders 32x32 (I think)
image. So it could be that scaling the image creates the noise.

I tested the icon file from the app's res folder with a non-UI program by
modifying the program's shortcut on the desktop
(Properties.Shortcut.Change Icon...) and the icon seemed to work fine.
That is, the system picked up the correct (16x16) image for the title bar
and the task bar. There was no noise.

So, it looks like the framework is not picking up the correct image from
the icon file.

Any idea what could cause this?

Thanks,
Bogdan