icon on button not displayed in XP.

[VCProgrammer]

in my test application for button icon: i have 2 Icon,load them in resource with id IDI_ICON1,and IDI_ICON2 2 buttons :CButton m_btn; CButton m_btn2; on which i wan to set the icon if i set the icon style true for buth buttons its working fine and display the icon on button in XP. but when i FALSE the ICON style for button and run this application,only text of button is display not the icon on button. now please help,if want something more please tel me what information i provide you to better assist me...

BOOL CBtnIconDlg::OnInitDialog()
{

    HICON hIcon = AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI\_ICON1);

AfxMessageBox(ErrorMsg());//here i get GetLastError =0 (The operation completed successfully.)
if(hIcon)
{
	//ok valid icon found
}
else
{
	AfxMessageBox(\_T("NULL hIcon"));//this not popup
}
	
m\_btn.SetIcon(hIcon);	
AfxMessageBox(ErrorMsg());//here i get GetLastError =87 (The parameter is incorrect.)

HICON icon =NULL;
HINSTANCE	hInstResource	= NULL;	
hInstResource = AfxFindResourceHandle(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI\_ICON2), RT\_GROUP\_ICON);

AfxMessageBox(ErrorMsg());//here i get GetLastError =0 (The operation completed successfully.)

if(hInstResource)
{
	//ok valid hInstResource found
}
else
{
	AfxMessageBox(\_T("hInstResource null"));//this not popup
}

icon = (HICON) LoadImage(hInstResource,
						MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI\_ICON2),
						IMAGE\_ICON,
						16,
						16,
						LR\_DEFAULTCOLOR); 


AfxMessageBox(ErrorMsg());//here i get GetLastError =0 (The operation completed successfully.)
if(icon )
{
	//valid icon 
}
else
{
	AfxMessageBox(\_T("NULL icon "));//this not popup
}
	
m\_btn2.SetIcon(icon);

AfxMessageBox(ErrorMsg());//here i get GetLastError =87 (The parameter is incorrect.)

    return TRUE;

}

CString CBtnIconDlg::ErrorMsg()
{
CString ret_msg=_T("");

LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
HRESULT hr;

hr = GetLastError();

ret\_msg.Format(\_T("%d :: "),GetLastError());

FormatMessage( 
	FORMAT\_MESSAGE\_ALLOCATE\_BUFFER | 
	FORMAT\_MESSAGE\_FROM\_SYSTEM | 
	FORMAT\_MESSAGE\_IGNORE\_INSERTS,
	NULL,
	hr,
	0, // Default language
	(LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf,
	0,
	NULL 
);

ret\_msg+=(LPCTSTR)lpMsgBuf;	
LocalFree( lpMsgBuf);

return ret\_msg;

}

[Lost User]

I suspect the error 87 should be ignored as you have not checked if the previous function was successful or not. You can validate that by calling SetLastError(0) before the SetIcon() call. You also say that when you set icon style to FALSE it does not display the icon; isn't that what it should do?

[VCProgrammer]

i set icon style to FALSE,coz i dont want only icon on button is display i want icon and text both are display on button....

[Lost User]

See the remarks section[^].

[VCProgrammer]

thanks for your guidance and support ,but please help me what function use to display text and icon on button....

[Lost User]

Use the methods and properties as described in the documentation[^].

[VCProgrammer]

according to the documentationt set icon on button use CButton:SetIcon method,that have i already used...as you know also is not working fine...

[Lost User]

I just tested this on my system and it works fine, using the BM_SETIMAGE message. I am not sure how you would do that in MFC but I guess in much the same way.

[VCProgrammer]

sir you tested this on XP?

[Lost User]

No, Windows 7.

[VCProgrammer]

sir i already told so many times os version upper than XP, my code also working fine, the problem is just about XP and lower version...

[Lost User]

Do you have Visual Styles enabled[^]?

[Lost User]

I have managed to get my XP VM set up and have run a number of tests but cannot make this work. Having a look around with Google it seems that this feature does not work on XP, despite the fact that the MSDN documentation states that this should work on versions from Windows 2000 and above. It looks like you are stuck, and the only solution is to decide whether to use text or icon in your product.

[VCProgrammer]

yes sir thanks... i am using now NM_CUSTOMDRAW and its solve my problem...