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I am currently working on an MFC C++ Application on Visual Studio version 2019.
The .ico file that gets created when we add an icon in resources contains the icons of different sizes in which the maximum resolution is 256x256, 32 bit.. Can we add an image type which has higher resolution than 256*256? If yes, how can I set this high resolution icon as icon of my application?
Working environment: Windows 10, Visual Studio - 16.11.15
Any help would be appriciated.
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Hi, @Radhika
Icons have a maximum size of 256x256 pixels.
For your reference: Icons (Design basics)
Best regards,
Minxin Yu
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Okay noted... Thanks a lot!
256*256 is for XP
On Windows 10, icons can have 768x768...
Further to the comment by. @Castorix31 the referenced documentation includes the following --
Note
This design guide was created for Windows 7 and has not been updated for newer versions of Windows. Much of the guidance still applies in principle, but the presentation and examples do not reflect our current design guidance.
There is also this doc, but not from MS About Icons and Cursors
(I could create a 768*768 icon on Windows 10 with some icons tools, but I did not try to use it...)
I tried adding higher resolution icon as described here-
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40933304/how-to-create-an-icon-for-visual-studio-with-just-mspaint-and-visual-studio
The image type of the custom resolutions are being create (for example, I created an icon of resolution 512*512). But will they be used by the application?