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#1

I was having a problem with Windows displaying the wrong icon for my app. I added both 32x32 and 16x16 icons to my icon resource. However, the 32x32 icon was being shown on the Taskbar window button, which looked ugly.

I looked in createWindowCallback in juce_win32_Windowing.cpp and found this line just before the call to RegisterClassEx:

Changing this to:

seemed to fix the problem nicely; now, the shell just extracts the correctly sized icon from the resource and everything’s peachy.

Any reason not to have it this way? I’ve only tried this with Windows XP.

Matt

#2

There was definitely a good reason why I used the ExtractIcon thing… can’t remember what it was though…

#3

OK. I tried this instead:

wcex.hIcon   = ExtractAssociatedIcon (moduleHandle, moduleFile, &iconNum);
iconNum      = 1;
wcex.hIconSm = ExtractAssociatedIcon (moduleHandle, moduleFile, &iconNum);

and then added a second 16x16 icon resource. That seems to work correctly.

Perhaps this is needed for older versions of Windows.

Matt

#4

That’s not much good if there’s only one icon though, or if they’re not in the same order.

I think the reason I added the ExtractIcon call was for DLLs rather than EXEs, because they’d pick up the host app’s icon by default instead of the DLL’s.

How about this:

wcex.hIcon = (moduleHandle == GetModuleHandle (0)) ? 0 : ExtractAssociatedIcon (moduleHandle, moduleFile, &iconNum);

(I’ve not tried this yet, but think it’ll probably work).

#5

Well, I think it’s delicious and savory, with just a hint of nutmeg. It worked beautifully.

Thanks - that’s a better solution than mine; more general-purpose.

I appreciate it!

Matt

#6