display an icon on a button

[sumedha]

hi,<br>how do you display an icon on a button?<br>I have a Icon as &quot;andy.ico&quot;<br>I want to display this icon on a button.<br>can someone please send me the code snippet?<br>I'm using VC++ 6.<br>(I experimented with SetIcon, SetBitmap but couldn't get it to work.)<br>Sumedha

 

[Sun]

Hi Sumedha,<br>See what I did was, I put a button on a Dialog Box, then in the Resource View goto the properties of the button, there on the <b>STYLES</b> tab, select <font color=red>Icon</font>.<br>Then I added an Icon resource, if you have a <font color=red>.ICO</font>, copy it in the <b>res</b> directory of your project then just import that file in your project , it will get a name say for eg IDI_YOURICON etc after that <br>in OnInitDialog()of the Dialogs class i just added this code<br>CButton* pButton = (CButton*)GetDlgItem(IDC_BUTTON1);<br>HICON hIcon = LoadIcon(AfxGetInstanceHandle(),(LPCTSTR)IDI_YOURICON);<br>pButton-&gt;SetIcon(hIcon); <br><br>It worked fine for me,<br><br>Hope this works for you <br>Regards<br>Sun<br>