c# and icons...

[losted]

I would like to know if it is possible to have different icons for the same window in the title bar and in the taskbar.. I think that everything is possible but.. Anyway.. if someone have something to help me it would be appreciate.. Thanks Luc

[mike montagne]

I could be wrong, but I don't think there's a practical way to do that. The Task Bar reads the icon from the executable -- you don't have an obvious opportunity to pass an alternate icon to system processes managing the Task Bar.

[losted]

That's also my conclusion, but there's absolutely no way to do that? No hack or tricky tricks?

[mike montagne]

I know I've seen an example of how to draw a rectangle on the desktop in response to mouse drag events, but I can't recall where. It's been a while. You should be able to dig up an example.

[kubben]

The NotifyIcon has its own icon property. so you can set that. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/notifyiconcontrol20.asp[^] Then you set the project and form icon to be something different. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/HowToIcon.asp[^] Hope that helps. Ben

[losted]

kubben, there's nothing about the tray in what i want to do. I just want to have different icon in my titlebar and taskbar.

[Uwe Keim]

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[losted]

I want to do that because my application is for win2000 only and my icon is white with transparent background. On the blue title bar the look is good (white over blue) but in the task bar its white over gray so we almost do not see it.

[kubben]

I am pretty sure whatever your form Icon is set to, that is the same icon on the taskbar. For some reason I thought you wanted a different icon in the tray. Sorry, Ben