[Resolved] Icons

[yrwyddfa]

New to most things graphical . . .

I have a collection of objects which I need to expose their associated icon (there are two friend properties called LargeIcon, and SmallIcon)

The question, then. I want to return the icons in a format that is easy to use for the calling app (this collection of objects is in a DLL)

Should I be using a Byte(), or perhaps IPictureDisp, or even Image? I intend to keep the icons on disk in the original .ico file format. Perhaps it's better to use a resource file?

These icons will be used in context sensitive menus, toolbars - the whole caboodle.

Any advice (and supporting) code will be most gratefully received.

Cheers,

Yr

[the182guy]

Have you tried the ImageList control? I think thats what i'd go for

[yrwyddfa]

No!

Unless you know of some way to properly control an ImageList control (and it's instantiation) in a DLL?

[CVMichael]

put a form in the DLL, set the Visible = False
Then put an ImageList (Or any control) on the form, and use it from the DLL class...

[yrwyddfa]

I can't do that. Apart from the lack of control over the resources (this DLL will be resident on a terminal server) it doesn't feel like a clean way of doing it.

I'm going for a RES file using LoadRes(n) to get the images.

Thanks for your input anyway.