AppIcon

Description

Short story: Change your application icon at runtime.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

• Retrieve Windows Font Specification, Ask the VB Pro, VBPJ, March 2000

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module	Library	Function
MAppIcon.bas	kernel32 user32	RtlMoveMemory EnumThreadWindows GetWindowLong LoadIcon SendMessage

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Download

Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution. Download AppIcon.zip, 7Kb, Last Updated: Tuesday, December 7, 1999

See Also

The following resources may also be of interest:

• AltTab - Constructs application lists, consisting of title and icon, as generated by the Alt-Tab window and Task Manager.
• TaskList - Recreation of Task Manager's Applications tab shows how to properly terminate processes.

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