Win XP Icons

[IcingDeath]

help :eek: !!

Whats the best practice for icons in .net? Like I was expecting it would support antialliased XP icons but it doesnt! Is there a best practice in order to force the listview to get them without distorting them? (It puts a black shade around them... looks terrible). I converted the icons to bitmaps and they look better but the main problem is that they dont really support transparency since the imagelist messes them up. I converted them using print screen (wow! lol) so i got em as windows drawed them on explorer file list.

[gstefan]

help :eek: !!

Whats the best practice for icons in .net? Like I was expecting it would support antialliased XP icons but it doesnt! Is there a best practice in order to force the listview to get them without distorting them? (It puts a black shade around them... looks terrible). I converted the icons to bitmaps and they look better but the main problem is that they dont really support transparency since the imagelist messes them up. I converted them using print screen (wow! lol) so i got em as windows drawed them on explorer file list.

 

I`ve just found the solution to this problem this morning.

You need to get a handle of the system image list with SHGetFileInfo

(more information in MSDN), and force the listview to get the imagelist from the system image list handle with SendMessage and LVM_SETIMAGELIST

 

it shoul look something like this:

 

....

 

private System.Windows.Forms.ListView lstViewLeft;

IntPtr hImgSmall; //the handle to the system image list

SHFILEINFO shinfo = new SHFILEINFO();

//SHFILEINFO is not defined if you use C# like me

//

//set the listview imagelist to system`s image list (1 is for SmallImageList)

SendMessage(this.lstViewLeft.Handle, LVM_SETIMAGELIST, 1 ,(UInt32)hImgSmall);

 

//and then get the icon index on every file you want with

SHGetFileInfo(FilePath, 0, ref shinfo,(uint)Marshal.SizeOf(shinfo),SHGFI_SYSICONINDEX | SHGFI_SMALLICON );

 

 

the item you add in the imagelist hould hade the image index

shinfo.iIcon

 

I`me just cutting and pasting code from my program so search for help on the methods and data structures yourself to understand how they work.

If you don`t use the system imagelist I don`t know any other way to get the icons that are not distorted.

[gstefan]

Good Luck !!!!

[cincyreds]

Convert your icons to .PNG format (Microangelo Studio, for one, can do this).

PNG supports transparency.

PNG files are almost always smaller than ICO files - an added bonus.

 

(If you do so, just make sure to save the .PNG file using transparency).