Why doesn't CStatic keep the size of the icon when using SetIcon?

[Lost User]

Hi! I have a very simple class used to display a checkbox, filled or not depending on if a task is finished. I the dialog editor, I set the SS_REALSIZEIMAGE property. This works great, until the image is set using SetIcon. After that call, CStatic formats the icon as a 32x32, which I don't like. I've tried to use ModifyStyle and RedrawWindow after the call to SetIcon, but no success. My code: void CTaskFinishedCheck::SetFinished(BOOL bFinished) { if ( bFinished ) { SetIcon( hCheckedIcon ); } else { SetIcon( hUncheckedIcon ); } } Someone who knows?

[Peter Godec]

Hi! Use the ::LoadImage API function instead of CWinApp::LoadIcon(). For example:

HINSTANCE hInst = AfxGetInstanceHandle();
hIcon = (HICON) ::LoadImage(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_FOOBAR), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, 0);

Hope this helps!

[Lost User]

It did. Thanks. I must learn to read the whole Remark section.

[Gast128]

Thx, I experienced the same problem using CStatic::SetIcon with dynamically loaded icon thru LoadIcon. The LoadIcon function seems to scale down any icon dimension back to system defaults (e.g. (32, 32)).