I’m always perturbed by how difficult it is to load an icon in Win32 at times.\u00a0 So many HICON\/HANDLE and whatnot special data members and folks on forums doing strange stuff.\u00a0 Here’s a snippet of code that just loads a simple icon file and displays it as your executable icon.\u00a0 I’m sure there is a more correct\/newer\/snazzier way to do this – but this works fine for me…<\/p>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m always perturbed by how difficult it is to load an icon in Win32 at times.\u00a0 So many HICON\/HANDLE and whatnot special data members and folks on forums doing strange stuff.\u00a0 Here’s a snippet of code that just loads a simple icon file and displays it as your executable icon.\u00a0 I’m sure there is a more correct\/newer\/snazzier way to do this – but this works fine for me… LPCTSTR iconPathName= L”..\/MyIcon.ico”; UINT icon_flags = LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE; HANDLE hIcon =…<\/p>\nLPCTSTR iconPathName= L\"..\/MyIcon.ico\";
\nUINT icon_flags = LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE;
\nHANDLE hIcon = LoadImage(hInstance, iconPathName, IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, icon_flags);<\/code><\/p>\n\/\/ set up RegisterClass struct
\nwcex.style\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= CS_OWNDC | CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
\nwcex.lpfnWndProc\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= WndProc;
\nwcex.cbClsExtra\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= 0;
\nwcex.cbWndExtra\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= 0;
\nwcex.hInstance\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= hInstance;
\nwcex.hIcon\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= (HICON) hIcon;
\nwcex.hCursor\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
\nwcex.hbrBackground\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
\nwcex.lpszMenuName\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= NULL;
\nwcex.lpszClassName\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0= m_AppTitle.c_str();<\/code><\/p>\n\/\/ register the window class
\nreturn RegisterClassEx(&wcex);<\/code><\/p>\n