Reply to: RE: [FB] CALL PLOTCICON Charlie Dickman wrote: >Friends, > >I'm using the following code to extract a cicn from a resource file >and plot it but what gets plotted is just a bunch of junk. If I use >GETCICON to extract the icon from the app's resources this works >fine. CALLing DETACHRESOURCE on the iconH& doesn't change anything I >must be missing some magic somewhere. Can anyone clue me in? > According to Think Reference, GETCICON is NOT the same as GETRESOURCE. GETCICON loads the resource and creates some private data structures. DISPOSCICON releases the resource and destroys those structures. Jamin