Question about icons
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Hi, I want to insert an icon into my application's resource, but every way I do it, it comes out ugly. I extracted an icon from shell32.dll, and tried to import it into the icon editor of VC++ .NET 2003. However, the 32x32 32bit icon has an ugly black mask around it. If I open the same icon in Axialis IconWorkshop, the icon looks fine. How would I normally get a 32bit icon in my resource, without having VC++ messing it up?
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Hi, I want to insert an icon into my application's resource, but every way I do it, it comes out ugly. I extracted an icon from shell32.dll, and tried to import it into the icon editor of VC++ .NET 2003. However, the 32x32 32bit icon has an ugly black mask around it. If I open the same icon in Axialis IconWorkshop, the icon looks fine. How would I normally get a 32bit icon in my resource, without having VC++ messing it up?
You can insert any icon you like into your resource file, but don't try to open or edit it inside Visual Studio because it will screw it up. The icon editor only supports up to 256 colour icons. The icon will still work correctly in your application if you don't edit it inside Visual Studio.
Ryan
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