Get a form's small icon

[\(O\)enone]

I wish to be able to copy a form's icon into a picturebox, in a similar way
to how the Windows Taskbar copies each form's icon into each of its task
panels.

I can easily read out the icon of each form by querying the .Icon property.
However, when I use the Graphics.DrawIcon method to draw this into my
picturebox, it is clearly the "large" version of the icon that is being
drawn. When I draw it with a size of 16x16 pixels, the icon is visibly
distorted compared to the original displayed in the window itself; when I
draw at 32x32 the image is fine and undistorted, but twice the size that I
want it to be.

If there a way for me to extract the small icon for each form so that I can
draw it without it distorting?

Thanks in advance,

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(O)enone

[G Himangi]

You can try using the overlaoded constructor :
Icon Constructor (Icon, Size) : Initializes a new instance of the Icon class
and attempts to find a version of the icon that matches the requested size.
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>I wish to be able to copy a form's icon into a picturebox, in a similar way
to how the Windows Taskbar copies each form's icon into each of its task
panels.

I can easily read out the icon of each form by querying the .Icon
property. However, when I use the Graphics.DrawIcon method to draw this
into my picturebox, it is clearly the "large" version of the icon that is
being drawn. When I draw it with a size of 16x16 pixels, the icon is
visibly distorted compared to the original displayed in the window itself;
when I draw at 32x32 the image is fine and undistorted, but twice the size
that I want it to be.

If there a way for me to extract the small icon for each form so that I
can draw it without it distorting?

Thanks in advance,

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(O)enone

[\(O\)enone]

G Himangi wrote:

You can try using the overlaoded constructor :
Icon Constructor (Icon, Size) : Initializes a new instance of the
Icon class and attempts to find a version of the icon that matches
the requested size.

That works perfectly -- many thanks!

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(O)enone