[python-win32] Extract icon from exe files

[Tim Roberts]

EISEN Nicolas wrote:
>>   
>   / from win32gui import *
>    import win32con
>
>    listHicon = ExtractIconEx("c:\OpenOffice.exe",0)
>
>    test =
> LoadImage(listHicon[0],"c:\OpenOffice.exe",0,0,0,win32con.LR_DEFAULTSIZE)  
>  
>      tupleIcon = GetIconInfo(test)/
>
> To use GetIconInfo argument should be pyHandle. listHicon is array of
> Hicon. LoadImage return Handle, but the last argument must be an pyHandle
> (by the interpretor error)

   import pywintypes
   ph = pywintypes.HANDLE( listHicon[0] )

Now you have a PyHANDLE.


> PS : the demo menu and taskbar use icon only to display it in another
> module, but i want get bitmapBit of icon to send it to an inventory
> server.

The demo fetches the icon and then uses BitBlt to draw it to a bitmap. 
Why is that not EXACTLY what you need?  That saves you all the trouble
of trying to extract the bitmaps from the icon and manipulate them in
somewhat to get a usable image.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.