reading icons

[suman ray]

HI, I have to read the icons for different file types and display them . Now if i load the common icons from a resource script it wont suffice . as for a new/different file type it does not work . So it is obvious that it has to be read from the registry . ( my application uses win32 api) Any help will be appreciated. thanks Suman Ray

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

Look up SHGetFileInfo in the Platform SDK. As I remember, Paul diLascio (MSDN) did a series of C++Q&A articles on all this. Iain.

[raysuman]

:)thanks you can do it that way, discovered another api . ExractAssociatedIcon(also a shell api ) to do it . regards Suman Ray