Chapter 5 Icons

A typical application for the Microsoft Windows operating system uses an icon to represent itself when its main window is minimized.

This chapter covers the following topics:

What an icon is

Creating and using your own predefined icons

Specifying an icon for your application's window class

Changing your application's icon “on the fly”

Displaying an icon in a dialog box

This chapter also explains how to create a sample Windows 3.1 application, Icon, that illustrates many of these concepts.