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IconToPicture – Convert an icon handle to a Picture object

IconToPicture – Convert an icon handle to a Picture object

Private Type PICTDESC    cbSize As Long    pictType As Long    hIcon As Long    hPal As LongEnd Type        Private Declare Function OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" _    (lpPictDesc As PICTDESC, riid As Any, ByVal fOwn As Long, _    ipic As IPicture) As Long' Convert an icon handle to a Picture objectFunction IconToPicture(ByVal hIcon As Long) As Picture    Dim pic As PICTDESC    Dim guid(0 To 3) As Long        ' initialize the PictDesc structure    pic.cbSize = Len(pic)    pic.pictType = vbPicTypeIcon    pic.hIcon = hIcon    ' this is the IPicture GUID {7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB}    ' we use an array of Long to initialize it faster    guid(0) = &H7BF80980    guid(1) = &H101ABF32    guid(2) = &HAA00BB8B    guid(3) = &HAB0C3000    ' create the picture,    ' return an object reference right into the function result    OleCreatePictureIndirect pic, guid(0), True, IconToPictureEnd Function

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