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Using Windows Icons

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sms_solver
sms_solver Original post #1
Aug 31, 2005 at 12:13 AM
There are beautiful icons in shell32.exe file and other windows system files.
Does somebody know the way to load (or use) icons from shell32.exe and use it in the form at runtime in VB6.
siriusb
siriusb #2
Aug 31, 2005 at 1:37 AM
One way is to use icon extracting softwares and extract those "beautiful" icons and use the extracted ico files in ur form.
sms_solver
sms_solver #3
Aug 31, 2005 at 10:17 AM
Extracting icons and using it with VB6 increases the size of the product.

I am searhing the Windows API for the purpose!