Getting modern system icons with LoadIcon

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I'm using LoadIcon for loading system icons such as the "Attention" sign. This works fine, but this gives me the icon with the old (I think) Windows 7 look.

My program runs on Windows 10.

Code:

hicon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_EXCLAMATION);

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Is there a way to get the icons with the new look?

On the other hand MessageBox with the MB_ICONEXCLAMATION flag shows the new icon.

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1 Answers

I saw that MessageBoxW uses the LoadIconWithScaleDown function for loading icons instead of LoadImage or LoadIcon. With standard icon IDs (from 0x7f00 (IDI_APPLICATION..IDI_SHIELD) this function actually loads images from imageres.dll (while LoadImage loads them from user32.dll).

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