Form icon doesn't work

[Erwin van de Wiel]

Maybe something I'm doing wrong, but I can't get an icon attached
to my form.

I created my resource file with msvc6. This is the part of my .rc
file where the icon is named:

HOCKEY ICON DISCARDABLE "hock.ico"

I saved it as a res file and converted it to a pbr file.
In my program I call the icon with :

hIco = LoadIcon(GetWindowLong(hDlg, %GWL_HINSTANCE), "HOCKEY")
(hico returns 0 !)
IF hIco THEN DIALOG SEND hDlg, %WM_SETICON, %ICON_BIG, hIco

Strange thing is that the compiled file has the icon attached to it.
The icon is of a 16x16 format.

What is wrong ?

(I only see the standard windows icon attached to my form)
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[This message has been edited by Erwin van de Wiel (edited July 27, 2000).]

[Edwin Knoppert]

Not icon_big but small

But LoadIconEx might help you out.
Or search for my post about loading icons. (by Groupindex)
Adapt it slightly to load small icons.



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[Borje Hagsten]

Tried the same code with a 16x16 icon and it worked fine. Do you
get an application instance handle from GetWindowLong()? Did you
use RC.EXE to create the RES file and then PBRES.EXE to create the
PBR file?

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[Semen Matusovski]

Probably, you used lower-case letters for HOCKEY in .RC ?
Another reason. Win95, RCDATA > 1 Mb

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[This message has been edited by Semen Matusovski (edited July 27, 2000).]

[Erwin van de Wiel]

Not icon_big but small.

The loadicon call returns 0 so the next line doesn't work at all.

Probably, you used lower-case letters for HOCKEY in .RC ?
Another reason. Win95, RCDATA > 1 Mb

No completely upper case and I use NT4.

Do you
get an application instance handle from GetWindowLong()? Did you
use RC.EXE to create the RES file and then PBRES.EXE to create the
PBR file?

No I used vc to create the res file and after that I used pbres to
create the pbr file. I do get an instance handle back from the
getwindowlong call. By the way I borrowed this icon code from your
poffs program.

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[This message has been edited by Erwin van de Wiel (edited July 27, 2000).]

[Erwin van de Wiel]

Problem solved

I used the string identifier to load the icon, because in vc there
was no way I could find a place to set the ID. I presumed that I could
use the string identifier.
But after a look in the resource.h file I found the ID of the icon.

After using this the icon finally showed up.

Anyway thank you for your tips.

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