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From: slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading an ICON from an executable other than your own?
Message-ID: <15505@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 14:56:46 GMT
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In article <kilmer.669302956@sysp1> kilmer@hq.af.mil writes:
|I was wondering if anyone had figured out how to read in an ICON from 
|an .EXE file other than the one that you're executing.  Sort of like the
|way the program manager change's an ICON in one of its groups to be any 
|.EXE's ICON (so long as it has a resource attached to it). How is this done???
|
	I haven't done this, but no one else seems to be replying:
	try using LoadIcon with the handle returned from LoadLibrary.
	As for trying to get the application icon w/o a name,
	just for the hell of it try sending a null string or null.
	If any of this works let me know.