by Mohannad Sulaiman Abu Sall (4 Submissions)
Category: Graphics
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sat 21st September 2002
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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Simple program to extract an icon from any file
API Declarations
Private Const MAX_PATH = 260
Private Type SHFILEINFO
hIcon As Long ' out: icon
iIcon As Long ' out: icon index
dwAttributes As Long ' out: SFGAO_ flags
szDisplayName As String * MAX_PATH ' out: display name (or path)
szTypeName As String * 80 ' out: type name
End Type
Private Const SHGFI_ICON = &H100
Private Const SHGFI_LARGEICON = &H0
Private Const SHGFI_SMALLICON = &H1
Private Declare Function DrawIcon Lib "user32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal hIcon As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SHGetFileInfo Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHGetFileInfoA" (ByVal pszPath As String, ByVal dwFileAttributes As Long, psfi As SHFILEINFO, ByVal cbFileInfo As Long, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
Dim Fico As SHFILEINFO
VBcoders
Pic.Picture = LoadPicture()
SHGetFileInfo File1.List(File1.ListIndex), 0, Fico, Len(Fico), SHGFI_ICON + SHGFI_LARGEICON
Pic.AutoRedraw = True
DrawIcon Pic.hdc, 0, 0, Fico.hIcon
Pic.Picture = Pic.Image
Pic.AutoRedraw = False
End Sub