Question

I have created a simple application icon by embedding a standard windows resource file containing an icon. However I would also like to use this icon on my main application window. Is there an easy way to do this? So far it seems the only way would be to seperately load an icon that contains the window icon rather than reusing the already exisiting icon. This seems like a horrible solution. Amongst other things the actual icon is embedded in my executable I don’t want to have to distribute it twice.

Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Actually … turns out its very very simple …

HICON       hIcon   = (HICON)LoadImage( GetModuleHandle( nullptr ), MAKEINTRESOURCE( IDI_ICON1 ), IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, LR_DEFAULTSIZE | LR_LOADTRANSPARENT );

setWindowIcon( QIcon( QtWin::fromWinHICON( hIcon ) ) );

::DestroyIcon( hIcon );