ICONINFO structure (winuser.h)

Contains information about an icon or a cursor.

Syntax

typedef struct _ICONINFO {
  BOOL    fIcon;
  DWORD   xHotspot;
  DWORD   yHotspot;
  HBITMAP hbmMask;
  HBITMAP hbmColor;
} ICONINFO;

Members

fIcon

Type: BOOL

Specifies whether this structure defines an icon or a cursor. A value of TRUE specifies an icon; FALSE specifies a cursor.

xHotspot

Type: DWORD

The x-coordinate of a cursor's hot spot. If this structure defines an icon, the hot spot is always in the center of the icon, and this member is ignored.

yHotspot

Type: DWORD

The y-coordinate of the cursor's hot spot. If this structure defines an icon, the hot spot is always in the center of the icon, and this member is ignored.

hbmMask

Type: HBITMAP

A handle to the icon monochrome mask bitmap.

hbmColor

Type: HBITMAP

A handle to the icon color bitmap.

Remarks

For monochrome icons, the hbmMask is twice the height of the icon (with the AND mask on top and the XOR mask on the bottom), and hbmColor is NULL. Also, in this case the height should be an even multiple of two.

For color icons, the hbmMask and hbmColor bitmaps are the same size, each of which is the size of the icon.

You can use a GetObject function to get contents of hbmMask and hbmColor in the BITMAP structure. The bitmap bits can be obtained with call to GetDIBits on the bitmaps in this structure.

Requirements

See also

Conceptual

CreateIconIndirect

Icons

Bitmaps

GetObject

GetDIBits

BITMAP

Reference