How to Show " Pick Icon Dialog "

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Introduction

Windows common dialog boxes are really common because just on CodeProject, you can see too many articles on common dialog boxes and about customizing them. But in this article, I am not going to show you a way to show "file open" or "font dialog". But how to show windows "Change Icon Dialog".

How To Show

Showing this dialog box is much easier, just an API away. But this API takes a Unicode string as input and returns results in the same string. So converting from ANSI string to Unicode string and then back to ANSI string is necessary.

My Approach

I just made a simple application which shows how to use this API in a simple way. In my application, the Icon you select from the "Change Icon" Dialog is shown in the dialog box, with the actual path to file which contains selected icon and index of icon in the file.

Actual Work

• The "Change Icon Dialog" is shown with PickIconDlg() API.
• The selected icon is shown in my dialog box with ExtractIcon().

History

• Tuesday 29 August 2006: Minimum working model