>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I am trying to get the name, and path of an applications associated icon
>>>
>>>Does any one know parameters I have to pass to
>>>
>>>ExtractIcon, and ExtractAssociatedIcon API.
>>>
>>>I think I have the correct systax,bur I get an exception error when I run my code.
>>>
>>>I am trying to pass the window handle, the file path & name, but I am not really sure how I should pass the third argument, as it is a WORD TYPE.
>>>any help or example of this in VFP would be a big help
>>>
>>
>>I don't know the API call, but a WORD is generally described as an INTEGER in the DECLARE...DLL syntax. You might want to look at Christof Lange's STRUCT class to see if he has support for the API calls you need in there.
>
>Hey Ed,
>
>You don't need any structures with these. The declarations are pretty straight forward. As you said INTEGER = WORD.
>DECLARE INTEGER ExtractIcon IN Shell32;
> INTEGER hInst, STRING @lpszExeFileName, INTEGER nIconIndex
>DECLARE INTEGER ExtractAssociatedIcon IN Shell32;
> INTEGER hInst, STRING @lpIconPath, INTEGER @lpiIcon
>DECLARE INTEGER GetClassLong IN Win32API;
> INTEGER hWnd, INTEGER nIndex
I didn't know the API calls in question; Christof did a nice job of making some API calls available from his STRUCT class, and I thought it'd be worth hois taking a peek to see if the support was there already.