Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Abhishek" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Subject: Re: 64 x 64 icons and VB6 Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:59:42 +0530 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: I//M39t1yCTkakCndwkXmA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:312 You mean to use XP style 32-bit icons in VB6 apps? yes, it is possible to use 32-bit alpha icons. http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=59231&lngWId=1 Dont select the icons at design time, load them using code above and resource file, having icon above 64x64 size is pretty useless and it only increases the size of our application. I only use 16, 32, 48 size icon with 256 color and xp color each. I would recommend microangleo icon editor, actually there are many good "C" wrote in message news:c8abe194-8b44-4bb0-b58f-3295aaeb70ca@s9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... | On Windows 7, the old icons of VB6 look bad. | | Can I have 64 by 64 icons for VB 6 programs? | | How can I make 64 x 64 icons? I have read that 256 colour bitmaps are | accepted as icons. Is there a better way? I need to draw six curves | for one icon. | | Thank you for any replies.