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[damo]

Any idea how to change the icon on the top left of forms within Access 2 to whatever I want?

Ta.

 

[Pat Hartman]

This is available from the start up menu.

 

[R. Hicks]

What Pat suggests will put a custom icon in Access main window. If you are refering to each form, here is some info I had archived that I have not actually tried.

---Original Post By Dev Ashish---

Put a custom icon in the form's caption bar

There are no direct way to place a custom icon in a form's caption bar. However, by loading an ICO file into memory, we can assign the icon to a form by sending a WM_SETICON message to the window.

'*********** Code Start ********
'Code courtesy of
'Klaus H. Probst
'
'// Place all this in a module
Public Declare Function LoadImage Lib "user32" _
Alias "LoadImageA" _
(ByVal hInst As Long, _
ByVal lpsz As String, _
ByVal un1 As Long, _
ByVal n1 As Long, _
ByVal n2 As Long, _
ByVal un2 As Long) _
As Long

Public Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, _
LParam As Any) _
As Long


Public Const WM_GETICON = &H7F
Public Const WM_SETICON = &H80
Public Const ICON_SMALL = 0
Public Const ICON_BIG = 1

'// LoadImage() image types
Public Const IMAGE_BITMAP = 0
Public Const IMAGE_ICON = 1
Public Const IMAGE_CURSOR = 2
Public Const IMAGE_ENHMETAFILE = 3

'// LoadImage() flags
Public Const LR_DEFAULTCOLOR = &H0
Public Const LR_MONOCHROME = &H1
Public Const LR_COLOR = &H2
Public Const LR_COPYRETURNORG = &H4
Public Const LR_COPYDELETEORG = &H8
Public Const LR_LOADFROMFILE = &H10
Public Const LR_LOADTRANSPARENT = &H20
Public Const LR_DEFAULTSIZE = &H40
Public Const LR_LOADMAP3DCOLORS = &H1000
Public Const LR_CREATEDIBHeader = &H2000
Public Const LR_COPYFROMRESOURCE = &H4000
Public Const LR_SHARED = &H8000

Public Function SetFormIcon(hWnd As Long, IconPath As String) As Boolean
Dim hIcon As Long

hIcon = LoadImage(0&, IconPath, IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_LOADFROMFILE)

'// wParam = 0; Setting small icon. wParam = 1; setting large icon
If hIcon <> 0 Then
Call SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETICON, 0, ByVal hIcon)
SetFormIcon = True
End If
End Function
'*********** Code End ********

HTH
RDH



[This message has been edited by R. Hicks (edited 02-15-2000).]