Displaying associated icons

[shelwig]

Thanks to these forums I now know how to extract and display an icon from a given file, and place it in a picture box. However, how can I get that same icon into an ImageList and therefore use it in a ListView (ie. Like a list of files with the correct icon in the listview.)

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Stu.

[Joacim Andersson]

Extract the icon and paint to a picture box and make it persistent by assigning the image property to the picture property.
Then use the Add method of the ListImages collection.

    Static iIconCount As Integer
    
'code to extract and paint an icon
'to the picIcon PictureBox goes here
    picIcon.Picture = picIcon.Image
    iIconCount = iIconCount + 1
    With imlIcons
        'the following two properties can
        'be set during design time
        .MaskColor = picIcon.BackColor
        .UseMaskColor = True
        .ListImages.Add , "Icon" & iIconCount, picIcon.Picture
    End With

The iIconCount in the above example is only there so we can give the icon a unique key in the ListImages collection.

Good luck!

[shelwig]

Great, thanks.

It was the use of Image property I was missing. It now works nicely and my list views have meaningful icons.

Thanks again.