Icon to bmp

[DragonSteve]

Hi,

I am trying to convert an icon to a bmp format.
I found an api call to convert an icon to picture format.

Declare Sub OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" ( _
    lpPictDesc As PICTDESC, riid As UUID, _
    ByVal fPictureOwnsHandle As Long, ipic As IPicture) 

Is there an api call that converts a picture to a bmp or
an icon to a bmp?


Could somebody help me, please.

TANKS.

[TheSarlacc]

when u say picture to BMP, do u mean from a picture box to a BMP file, coz u can use the SavePicture command!

[DragonSteve]

Meanwhile I solved it.

'load the picture in the picture property of a picturebox
Picture2.Picture = ImageList1.ListImages.Item(CInt(TDBGrid.Columns("Icons").CellText(Bookmark))).Picture

'save the picture with the image property of the picture box
SavePicture Picture2.Image, "dummy.bmp"

'Now I can place the bmp in de cellstyle of the grid
CellStyle.ForegroundPicture=LoadPicture("dummy.bmp")
...


So you see I don't even need an api call.

Thanks anyway.

[TheSarlacc]

very nice

[anoop007]

and most of the times... renaming an icon to .bmp will also work!

[DragonSteve]

Most of the time but in my case that didn't work.
Even under explorer if you rename the file to bmp, you
still got a message that the fileformat is wrong.

[Lord Orwell]

and for those without vb, capturing the screen and pasting in paint and cutting out what you want and saving that as a bmp works too.