>Ed & George,
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>I've been playing with this stuff for the last week or so. I can work out which Icon to load (from the HKCR keys), load an icon with ExtractIcon() which returns an icon handle but (and I think this is the non-trivial step) I can't persist the icon referred to so it can be loaded into an image list.
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>I've been scouring MSDN, thinking about stuff like creating/obtaining a DC and writing it there, then writing the bitmap to a file and so on, but I can't find the magic savetofile()-type function.
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>Cheers,
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Hi Andrew

For the ImageList, the problem is that it wants a picture object. AFAIK, the best we can get from the API, is a handle.

Now, once you've got a handle, you can display it (using DrawIcon()). If you display it, you could use something like my Obj2Bmp to save it to a file. (I'd surround the target area with a shape the same size as the icon 32x32). In order for Obj2Bmp to do what it does, it has to call a number of API functions. The key one (in my case) was BitBlt(). It made the whole project work. So you might want to take a look at that code. It's in the download section under Win32 and other APIs.