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[Harold L Hunt II]

Lev,

Lev Bishop wrote:

> Harold,
> 
> Harold wrote:
> 
>>Microsoft never comes right out and says what bloody size *all* icons
>>are supposed to be in the various places in Windows. The nearest I have
>>ever been able to find is the following:
> 
> 
> So from what I understand there are 4 sizes used by windows.  
> "{system|shell} {small|large}". For our purposes we only care about the
> "system" sizes. ("shell small" is used in explorer and shell dialogs,
> "shell large" on the desktop and one or other of these goes on the start 
> menu). 
> 
> "System small" is what gets used for window titlebars & the system tray 
> and *the user can change it* at will by configuring the "caption buttons" 
> size in the "advanced" dialog of "display properties"->"appearance".
> 
> "System large" is what goes in the alt-tab dialog, and the size is 
> determined *by your video driver*. Possibly that gets changed depending on 
> the "dpi" setting of the video driver, I'm not sure.
> 
> You can find out the current settings for these system sizes using 
> GetSystemMetrics.
> 

Okay, I used SM_CXSMICON and SM_CYSMICON for determining the size of the 
icon to load for the system tray in 4.2.0-42 (Test91).  That seems 
correct according to the MSDN doc cited below.

On the other hand, the 24 x 24 icon I made looks like crap.  I just 
realized that my notebook uses 24 x 24 small icons because I am running 
it with 120 dpi fonts.  I should have looked at the icon on here first, 
cause it really is obviously garbage.  Then again, it looks like there 
are green pixels in the 24 x 24 icon when I magnify it... which I 
distinctly remember going through and removing after scaling the 32 x 32 
icon down to 24 x 24.  I wonder if the wrong size icon is still being 
loaded on my notebook and being manually scaled by Windows to 24 x 24, 
thus reintroducing the green pixels.

> Here's one msdn doc:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/icons/abouticons.asp
> 

That is the doc I was looking for!  I haven't found that in months of 
searching for it.  I can't believe I missed it.  Thanks for pointing me 
there.

Harold