I have a listview that displays a list of files. How would I load the icons for these files? Say if it was an mp3 then I need to find out what icon the system uses for mp3s and load it.
Hi ENF,
Create an image list. Load the icons into the image list then use their index # in the iImage parameter of LV_ITEM:
Note that once the icon is added to the image list it is no longer needed and can be destroyed.
Create an image list. Load the icons into the image list then use their index # in the iImage parameter of LV_ITEM:
invoke ImageList_Create,16,16,ILC_MASK + ILC_COLOR24,1,10
mov [hIml],eax
invoke LoadIcon,[hInstance],10000
push eax
invoke ImageList_AddIcon,[hIml],eax
pop eax
invoke DestroyIcon,eax
invoke LoadIcon,[hInstance],10001
push eax
invoke ImageList_AddIcon,[hIml],eax
pop eax
invoke DestroyIcon,eax
invoke SendMessage, [hListView], LVM_SETIMAGELIST, LVSIL_SMALL, [hIml]Note that once the icon is added to the image list it is no longer needed and can be destroyed.
thank you donkey, but I still don't know how to find the icons to load. I need to know wich icon the shell uses to display a file of a particular type, and where that icon can be found. I know I could have an icon for each file type as a resource and use that but I wonder if there is an api to use the same icon that explorer would use?
There is a function for that ExtractAssociatedIcon, use that instead of LoadIcon, providing the path to the file or executable.