trying to insert my own icon into a Windows Forms application

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AK - 26 Jul 2005 14:32 GMT

I have a Windows Forms.NET project & am modifying the GUI in Form1.h[Design] .
I click the Form, go to Properties, click the Icon Property, & change it to
the .ico file I want. It accepts the change & shows me a thumbnail of the
image in the Properties tab, but when I compile I get a "C2039: 'GetObjectA'
is not a member of System::Resources:ResourceManager".

I've tried to manipulate ResourceView so it will accept my image, but to no
avail (I'm really not sure if I'm doing the right thing).
Perhaps there's a setting in the project Properties that needs to be changed ?
Can anybody tell me how to setup a user-drawn bitmap as the icon to an
application ?

Thanks,

ak

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James Park - 26 Jul 2005 16:39 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/888267

>I have a Windows Forms.NET project & am modifying the GUI in
>Form1.h[Design] .
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> ak

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AK - 26 Jul 2005 17:26 GMT

James, thanks for the lnik - the problem compiles but now I get an unhandled
exception :
MCppCodeDomParser Error: Line: 113, Column: 1 --- Unexpected token
for a 'term'

& the Form1 [Design] can no longer be opened - what's going on ?

ak

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James Park - 26 Jul 2005 23:35 GMT

If you are doing:

void InitializeComponent(void)
{
#ifdef GetObject
#pragma message("Undefine the GetObject function for your managed code.")
#pragma push_macro("GetObject")
#undef GetObject
#endif
...
#ifndef GetObject
#pragma message( "Redefine the GetObject function to the unmanaged code
definition.")
#pragma pop_macro("GetObject")
#endif
}

try:

#ifdef GetObject
#pragma message("Undefine the GetObject function for your managed code.")
#pragma push_macro("GetObject")
#undef GetObject
#endif
void InitializeComponent(void)
{
...
}
#ifndef GetObject
#pragma message( "Redefine the GetObject function to the unmanaged code
definition.")
#pragma pop_macro("GetObject")
#endif

> James, thanks for the lnik - the problem compiles but now I get an
> unhandled
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AK - 27 Jul 2005 19:16 GMT

Thanks for the help - the program runs OK now, but the icon is the default one.
It doesn't seem to use my icon defined in Resource View as IDI_ICON1
& filename app.ico .

ak

> If you are doing:
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