Load Icon to bitmap

[klkvgupta]

Hi!
Can anyone tell me how to load an Icon on to a Bitmap.

I have smiley Icon and I want it on a Button.
For that I used BS_PUSHBUTTON and BS_OWNERDRAW and created a button.
But how to get this smiley onto button.Can i load into a icon and set bitmap on button or any other way.

Thanks in advance,
Gupta.

[bkenwright]

I'd use:

HICON hMyIcon = LoadIcon(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON1));

Then to display it on the button, use

DrawIcon(hDC, x_position, y_position, hMyIcon);

Hope this helps

Ben

[Sonu Kapoor]

With the following Article you can do that and a lot more:

http://www.codeproject.com/buttonctrl/cbuttonst.asp

Regards, Sonu Kapoor

[klkvgupta]

By subclassing the Button we can do lot of things.But without doing that is there any way to do.

Thanks for spending your precious time.
Waiting for reply.
Gupta.

[bkenwright]

The only way I know of is either subclassing...e.g. inheriting your own class and doing your own drawing.

class CMyButton : public CButton
{
... etc etc
}

or setting a new proc...using setwindowlong api..

[bkenwright]

If you jsut want to change the image...there's a class called

CBitmapButton

with a member:

BOOL LoadBitmaps(
UINT nIDBitmapResource,
UINT nIDBitmapResourceSel = 0,
UINT nIDBitmapResourceFocus = 0,
UINT nIDBitmapResourceDisabled = 0
);


the 4 different parameters to the LoadBitmap member are the standard bitmap view, up bitmap, down bitmap etc.

Hope it helps

[jflegert]

Hi Gupta,

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but if you want to get an icon on a button:

1) create the button with style BS_ICON
2) load the icon
3) call CButton::SetIcon()

Good luck,
John Flegert

[klkvgupta]

this is what i wanted to do.

thanks a lot.
Gupta.

[PatNg]

Originally posted by jflegert
Hi Gupta,

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but if you want to get an icon on a button:

1) create the button with style BS_ICON
2) load the icon
3) call CButton::SetIcon()

Good luck,
John Flegert

Hi,

Can you please teach me how you load the icon and call CButton::SetIcon ? I realise that there are available icons in the Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Graphics\Icons, how do I make use of them? I want to displace them on the buttons in my application.

Thanks in advance

[jflegert]

To load an icon, I use LoadIcon or LoadImage. I would suggest looking in MSDN.

Good luck,
John Flegert