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someone plz run this in their copy of VS 05 and see what icon it actually puts in the messagebox. On mine it shows the red error circle X thingy instead of a hand for some odd reason.
MessageBox.Show("Is this a hand?", "Hand?", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Hand)
That's because the Hand and the Stop icons have the same value of 16. Also, while the intellisense is showing, if you mouse over the Hand entry, the tooltip will popup describing what the icon looks like. Note that it is the same description for the Stop.
-tg
:ehh: that is really odd. I want my hand dammit! :cry: someone I just IMed said they removed the hand from windows at some point. Why would they even do that? Why don't they fix the disappearing system tray arrow button glitch since it's been like 6 years of it so far instead of taking out perfectly good hands?
my guess is because different windows versions have different graphical icons that have changed over time, but the actual values are still the same, so they included the enums in the framework for completeness... however it is a bit misleading going by their names versus their numeric values.
If I remember right.... W95 was the last OS to have the hand.... I haven't seen it since at least then....
-tg
The point of the hand was a "stop" gesture. It was decided that that provided no additional value over any other "stop" symbol so the icons were consolidated. If you want a hand then draw one yourself. There's nothing stopping you, unless of course your time is better spent picking at Microsoft. You may try reading the documentation also. It's all there in black and white (and blue) if you care to look.