[RESOLVED] Changing the Small and Big icons of a window using LoadImage... How to?

[VictorN]

No improvement.

Could you post (attach to your post) your icon file?

[Arianax]

Could you post (attach to your post) your icon file?

I was thinking the same thing... it must be the .ico file...

I have made this file simply by saving a 16x16 .bmp with MSPAINT as a 256color bitmap with the file extension .ico:

I get the error message 'invalid file' when I try to upload a .ico file to this site... Maybe I have created it incorrectly..?

Visual Studio 2017 interprets the file as a BMP if I attach it to the Resource Editor (something I don't want to do since I prefer LoadImage() to LoadIcon()).

[Arianax]

IT WORKS!!!

It turned out that I needed to convert the standard 24-Bit BMP file into a .ico file using a specialized Icon Converter piece of software.

The only strange thing is:

I still receive the error messages when I do error checking, but the icon appears correctly when the Window is created during Debug mode.

So the following code works effectively:

HICON hIconSm = (HICON)LoadImage(NULL, L"Icon.ico", ICON_IMAGE, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE);

Many thanks for all your assistance Victor...

[VictorN]

I still receive the error messages when I do error checking, but the icon appears correctly when the Window is created during Debug mode.

So the following code works effectively:

HICON hIconSm = (HICON)LoadImage(NULL, L"Icon.ico", ICON_IMAGE, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_DEFAULTSIZE);

Again: what error message and how did you check it?