Importing a drag icon into a VB6 image object.

I am running VB6 on Windows XP. I have made 16x16 and 32x32 bitmap icons in Paint in Windows 7 and Windows XP, but none of them will work as drag icons in VB6. I have saved these files as 256 Color bitmap files, 24-bit bitmap files and 16 Color bitmap files (all with "ico" extensions when saving them), but none work. These files work as desktop icons, but I get the message "Invalid property value" when I try to import them as drag icons. How can I make an icon that can be used as a drag icon in VB6?

.ico files are not bitmaps simply changing the extension of a .bmp to .ico does not do anything for you. You need to use a software that can save actual icon files either as .ico or .dll Been a while since I used XP but I do not think there was any native software included with XP that could do this. I had a 3rd party icon creator tool that I used for this under XP.

You may try this code:

Code:

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private void OnDragEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e)
{
  Debug.WriteLine("OnDragEnter");
  string filename;
  validData=GetFilename(out filename, e);
protected bool GetFilename(out string filename, DragEventArgs e)
{
  bool ret=false;
  filename=String.Empty;

  if ( (e.AllowedEffect & DragDropEffects.Copy) == DragDropEffects.Copy)
  {
    Array data=((IDataObject)e.Data).GetData("FileName") as Array;
    if (data != null)
    {
      if ( (data.Length ==1) && (data.GetValue(0) is String) )
      {
        filename=((string[])data)[0];
        string ext=Path.GetExtension(filename).ToLower();
        if ( (ext==".jpg") || (ext==".png") || (ext==".bmp") )
        {
          ret=true;
        }
      }
    }
  }
  return ret;
}
private void OnDragEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e)
{
  Debug.WriteLine("OnDragEnter");
  string filename;
  validData=GetFilename(out filename, e);
  if (validData)
  {
    if (lastFilename != filename)
    {
      thumbnail.Image=null;
      thumbnail.Visible=false;
      lastFilename=filename;
      getImageThread=new Thread(new ThreadStart(LoadImage));
      getImageThread.Start();
    }
    else
    {
      thumbnail.Visible=true;
    }
    e.Effect=DragDropEffects.Copy;
  }
  else
  {
  e.Effect=DragDropEffects.None;
  }
}
public delegate void AssignImageDlgt();

protected void LoadImage()
{
  nextImage=new Bitmap(lastFilename);
  this.Invoke(new AssignImageDlgt(AssignImage));
}

protected void AssignImage()
{
  thumbnail.Width=100;
  // 100 iWidth
  // ---- = ------
  // tHeight iHeight
  thumbnail.Height=nextImage.Height * 100 / nextImage.Width;
  SetThumbnailLocation(this.PointToClient(new Point(lastX, lastY)));
  thumbnail.Image=nextImage;
}

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That code is C#, not VB6.