So... how does one correctly grab the icon of a window given its HWND? Online sources say to use WM_GETICON or GCLP_HICON, but neither of those work for certain packaged apps, like calculator.
Kind of looks like I need to use IAppxManifestProperties to grab "Logo" from the appx
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Get the path of the executable and extract the icon from the resource section. Although obviously this might not match the Window…
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Doesn't work for calculator on win11, you get a generic app icon, not the calculator icon.
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Because CalculatorApp.exe is the process, and it has no icon... So I assume windows is grabbing the icon from the appxmanifest or something...
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Yeah looks like it will require a bunch of annoying code with GetPackage and PackageFullNameFromId... any idea?
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InternalGetWindowIcon doesn't return the icon for packaged processes - another issue is that function always returns a icon handle (even when the window doesn't have an icon - exceeding shared desktop heap limits and preventing applications from running)