extract icons to flexgrid

[fllewis]

I'm using the following API to pull icons from dll's and put them in a flexgrid. I want to insert the item into a cell in the flexgrid, and thought some db experts might have encountered this before. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Private Type SHFILEINFO
hIcon As Long
iIcon As Long
dwAttributes As Long
szDisplayName As String * 260
szTypeName As String * 80
End Type

Private Declare Function SHGetFileInfo Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHGetFileInfoA" _
(ByVal pszPath As String, ByVal dwFileAttributes As Long, psfi As SHFILEINFO, _
ByVal cbSizeFileInfo As Long, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function ImageList_Draw Lib "comctl32.dll" _
(ByVal himl&, ByVal i&, ByVal hDCDest&, ByVal x&, ByVal y&, ByVal flags&) As Long

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim m As Long, ShInfo As SHFILEINFO

m = SHGetFileInfo("C:\aim\aim.exe", 0&, ShInfo, Len(ShInfo), &H4000 Or &H1)

If m <> 0 Then
Picture1.AutoRedraw = True
Call ImageList_Draw(m, ShInfo.iIcon, Picture1.hdc, 0, 0, &H1)
End If
End Sub

[John McKernan]

To insert a picture into a flexgrid cell:

With MSHFlaxGrid1
    .Row = 1
    .Col = 1
    Set .CellPicture = LoadPicture(picturefile)
End With

You can also set the .CellPicture property using LoadResPicture to setting to an imagelist

[MOHH]

hello,

other than using John's method, you might have to subclass the Flexgrid and provide your own paint routine. For an exellent tutroial on subclassing, which also has an example of subclassing a flexgrid, go to

ELITEVB.COM

good luck.

[Edneeis]

Probably the easiest solution is to use those API calls to put the image into an invisible picturebox and then load it from there into the flexgrid. Once it's loaded into the flexgrid you can keep reusing the same picture.

[fllewis]

Thanks for the input. I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with.

FLL