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.