Load Icon to bitmap

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.

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

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

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

Regards, Sonu Kapoor

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.

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..

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

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

this is what i wanted to do.

thanks a lot.
Gupta.

Quote:

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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

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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

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

Good luck,
John Flegert