Icons on Win32 property pages are ugly - 4-bit icons

Question

I use the Win32 API C ++ Property Sheets in my application, and the icons used in the page headers are of poor quality compared to the main title, for example, or other icons in the application.

http://i.imgur.com/goiF7Je.png

In the attached image, both house icons are on the same resource.

Is there any way to change it to 32-bit color icons?

const int Sheets = 2; PROPSHEETPAGE psp[Sheets]; for (int i=0; i<Sheets; ++i) { psp[i].dwSize = sizeof(PROPSHEETPAGE); psp[i].dwFlags = PSP_USEICONID | PSP_USETITLE; psp[i].lParam = 0; psp[i].pfnCallback = NULL; psp[i].hInstance = m_hInst; } psp[0].pszTemplate = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDDNEW_IS0); psp[0].pszIcon = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_GENERAL_TAB); psp[0].pfnDlgProc = IntegrationServer::tabGeneral; psp[0].pszTitle = "General"; psp[1].pszTemplate = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDDNEW_IS1); psp[1].pszIcon = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_GENERAL_REQUESTS); psp[1].pfnDlgProc = IntegrationServer::tabRequests; psp[1].pszTitle = "Requests"; PROPSHEETHEADER psh; psh.dwSize = sizeof(PROPSHEETHEADER); psh.dwFlags = PSH_USEICONID | PSH_PROPSHEETPAGE | PSH_NOCONTEXTHELP | PSH_NOAPPLYNOW; psh.hInstance = m_hInst; psh.pszIcon = MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_GENERAL_TAB); psh.pszCaption = (LPSTR) "Integration Server configuration"; psh.nPages = sizeof(psp) / sizeof(PROPSHEETPAGE); psh.nStartPage = 0; psh.ppsp = (LPCPROPSHEETPAGE) &psp; psh.hwndParent = m_hWnd; PropertySheet(&psh); 

Answer 1

Finally, I found a solution to the problem above. Instead of Property Sheets, I used Tab Control to create a similar window.

Benefits of using Tab Control:

• easier to maintain the contents of each tab (just show / hide HWND)
• - 32 bits
• This is a standard control such as a button, static text, etc., so it works the same way.

Defects:

• need to write more code.

Here is an example window: http://i.imgur.com/4AcXvSz.png

And the source code:

 /* Need this: #include <commctrl.h > #pragma comment(lib, "Comctl32.lib") #pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' " "name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' " "processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' " "language='*'\"") */ // get HWND of Tab Control HWND tab = GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_TAB1); // get current instance HINSTANCE hInst = (HINSTANCE) GetModuleHandle(NULL); // insert 7 tabs in our Tab Control TCITEM tie; tie.mask = TCIF_TEXT | TCIF_IMAGE; LPSTR item[] = {"Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday" }; for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) { tie.pszText = item[i]; tie.iImage = i; if (TabCtrl_InsertItem(tab, i, &tie) == -1) break; } // insert 7 icons for each Tab HIMAGELIST hi = ImageList_Create(16, 16, ILC_COLOR32, 0, 7); if (hi != NULL) { int icons[] = {IDI_ACTIONADD, IDI_ACTIONDELETE, IDI_ACTIONEDIT, IDI_ACTIONIMPORT, IDI_ACTIONVIEW, IDI_CONFIGURATION, IDI_CONF_CLEANUP}; for (int i =0; i<7; ++i) { HICON icon = (HICON) LoadImage(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(icons[i]), IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, 0); ICONINFO iconinfo; GetIconInfo(icon, &iconinfo); HBITMAP bitmap = iconinfo.hbmColor; ImageList_Add(hi, bitmap, NULL); DestroyIcon(icon); } } TabCtrl_SetImageList(tab, hi); // Set position and size of child window to // put it on the entire surface of tab display window RECT rect; GetClientRect(tab, &rect); // This will collect entire Tab window and will return rectangle, which will // fulfill display space TabCtrl_AdjustRect(tab, FALSE, &rect); // Create child window, which will be inserted into Tab display space HWND child = CreateDialog(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_IS_COMMON_CLEANUP), tab, IntegrationServer::empty); // Set child window position and size to fulfill Tab Control // those "-2", "-1" etc. are just for me - I don't like white space :) SetWindowPos(child, NULL, rect.left-2, rect.top-1, rect.right-rect.left+2, rect.bottom-rect.top+2, SWP_NOZORDER); // Show child window ShowWindow(child, SW_SHOW); 

After that, you need to search for notifications using Tab Control when the user changes the displayed tab at the current moment and loads the new HWND into the Tab Control display space.

Tab management notifications can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb760548(v=vs.85).aspx