How load icon from resource using LoadImage?

Rumbu rumbu at rumbu.ro
Sun Jan 5 15:13:17 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 5 January 2020 at 13:33:35 UTC, Marcone wrote:
> I am using this code to load icon from local directory, but I 
> want to load icon from resource.res file:
>
> wndclass.hIcon  = LoadImage( NULL, "icon.ico", IMAGE_ICON, 0, 
> 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE| LR_SHARED | LR_LOADTRANSPARENT);

You cannot load icons from res files.

If you link your res file to the executable, you can load the 
icon using:

LoadIcon(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(youriconid));


The function LoadImage from above loads an icon from the file 
named icon.ico, not from a res file.


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