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brokenhope · Oct 4th, 2005, 7:30 PM

I dont think you understood what I was doing.

I wasnt trying to replace explorer.exe, I was trying to replace the file explorer impliment. You know when you click a folder or something on your desktop and it opens the file explorer, thats what im re-creating. I think the one windows uses by default is built into explorer.exe though, and thats why every time that crashes everything crashes, so I just want to make an outside application file browser program.

Do you know the windows api call for getting the icon of a specific file type?

All I could find is this icon class which gets the system icons, not the ones actually used currently with the system, http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=5174 is where its at, Im using it now and it works alright, but a couple of problems, I cant get the image of an icon to see if it exists in the imagelist, and actually thats all. I could convert the icon to a bitmap, if only I knew how X_X, but thats the least of my worries, I want up to date current icons that are actually used, not the original ones.

Oct 4th, 2005, 7:30 PM	#9
brokenhope Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 126 Rep Power: 4	I dont think you understood what I was doing. I wasnt trying to replace explorer.exe, I was trying to replace the file explorer impliment. You know when you click a folder or something on your desktop and it opens the file explorer, thats what im re-creating. I think the one windows uses by default is built into explorer.exe though, and thats why every time that crashes everything crashes, so I just want to make an outside application file browser program. Do you know the windows api call for getting the icon of a specific file type? All I could find is this icon class which gets the system icons, not the ones actually used currently with the system, http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=5174 is where its at, Im using it now and it works alright, but a couple of problems, I cant get the image of an icon to see if it exists in the imagelist, and actually thats all. I could convert the icon to a bitmap, if only I knew how X_X, but thats the least of my worries, I want up to date current icons that are actually used, not the original ones.