🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, world.

I'm having a number of problems with icons, but I'll just ask you two 
questions (for now):

1/ How do I create a monochrome cursor from an Icon? 
   I have an MDI window in which every child window will draw its own
   icon, picked from a common pool of hIcons. Each window is of a common
   class, and the class icon is set to null, so each child window receives
   wm_Paint messages, and draws the appropriate icon. So far, so good. The
   problem arises when an iconized child is moved, the default drag cursor
   is used instead of a cursor shaped like the appropriate icon. I must
   respond to the wm_QueryDragIcon message, but to do so I must create a
   monochrome cursor shaped like the appropriate icon. How?

2/ How can I get the Width, Height, Planes, BitsPixel, ANDBits and XORbits 
   of an icon given its handle?
   This would also help me with problem number 1, but I need it for a
   different purpose. I have an application that displays millions upon
   billions of icons (well, ok, maybe a couple hundred). Seldom are more
   than 20 displayed at a time. I would like to free the resource space of
   icons not being displayed by creating an icon pool in global memory,
   copying the icon Width, Height, Planes, etc. information to the memory
   pool, then destroying the icon handle. If it becomes neccessary to
   display the icon, I could then use the CreateIcon API function to
   recreate the icon. But for this to work I need to get the Width,
   Height, Planes etc information from the original hIcon. Again, how?

3/ Is there a good 'All about Icons & Bitmaps' book anyone can recommend?

Ok, ok, ok, so I can't count.
Thanks to all who respond,
                                        chris.snell@canrem.com

---
WMR #1 Of the things I've lost, I miss my mind most
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044