The Old New Thing

Why does the DrawIcon function draw at the default icon size?

February 16, 2012 Feb 16, 2012 02/16/12

Raymond Chen

Miral wondered why the function draws at the default icon size instead of respecting the actual icon size. After all, if you loaded a nonstandard-sized icon via , then presumably you want to use that nonstandard size. The question is one of those types of questions that fails to understand history, like asking why NASA didn't send the space...