I have created a little icon of 16x16, i am then using createwindow to display my icon using SS_ICON OR SS_CENTERIMAGE. The icon shows fine bu it is stretched and the image loks blurred. I adjusted the height and width of the display, now only a portion of the blurred icon is being displayed, how do I fix this ?
code:
invoke CreateWindowEx,0,chr$("Static"),chr$("Icon"),WS_CHILD Or WS_VISIBLE Or WS_TABSTOP OR SS_ICON OR SS_CENTERIMAGE,445,210,16,16,hWnd,1200,hInstance,0
invoke SendMessage,eax, STM_SETIMAGE,IMAGE_ICON,dword ptr ds:[hIcon]
Hi Starzboy,
Your approach is not that realistic.
Usual steps would be:
1.) Load the icon from resource or file with "LoadImage".
2.) Display it with "DrawIcon".
Between 1 and 2 you would also creat a compatibleDC with "CreateCompatibleDC".
Ficko
starzboy,
Usually when you create an icon you do multiple resolution versions so each size looks OK. a 16 x 16 for the title bar, a 32 x 32 for a normal desktop icon and bigger if you want it to look OK at a larger size.
Note that a 16 colour icon is reasonably small where the 24 bit with a transparent channel are much larger so if the app size matters, reduce the colour depth.