>>>What is the proper function to retrieve an icon from an executable or DLL so I can load it into a ImageList with .ADD(,"Drive",LOADPICTURE("Drive.ico"))
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>>>Thanks,
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>>Will,
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>>Actually, neither of these will do what you want. Both return a handle to the icon. The handle can be then used by an API function such as DrawIcon(). Unfortunately, the handle does not produce a physical file and there isn't an API call that can do this directly.
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>George,
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>I found a freeware program that extracts icons from executables and DLLs. It saves them as icon files. If it only had a COM interface.
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>http://monsternet.game-point.net/goodies/icon_digger_2000.htm
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>There must be a way to do this using a Windows API and possibly a C++ wrapper to save the handle to a file?

Yeah, I found one too a few years back called "Icon Sucker". I always assumed that it used the imaging it did of the icons as a basis for possibly a bit-block transfer to the appropriate format.

Hmmm....I've got an idea. May not pan out, though.