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FolderItem.IconMBS(width as Integer, WindowsFlags as Integer=0) as picture

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Icon Service MBS Picture Plugin ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes All
Returns an picture with the icon of a FolderItem for the given iconsize.
Example 
Backdrop=SpecialFolder.Desktop.IconMBS(512)

// newer way for Mac apps:

// get image
dim n as NSImageMBS = NSWorkspaceMBS.iconForFile(SpecialFolder.desktop)
// set the size we want
n.setSize 512,512
// make a copy as picture
Backdrop = n.CopyPictureWithMask

Changed in plugin version 7.7 to return a picture with mask of the given size.

On Windows the icon picture is scaled to the requested size. (Actually the plugin can only get 32bit pixels wide icons on Windows as maximum)

Version 8.6: Now reads the 32bit image data with 8 bit alpha values if possible.

You can pass flags for Windows options:
SHGFI_ADDOVERLAYS= &h20Apply the appropriate overlays to the file's icon.
SHGFI_LINKOVERLAY= &h8000Adds the link overlay to the file's icon.
SHGFI_OPENICON= 2Retrieve the file's open icon
SHGFI_SELECTED= &h10000Blend the file's icon with the system highlight color.

This function can fail if the file does not exist.
Please note that icons on alias files takes much longer to get than normal files.
Added 1024 pixel support in 12.3 plugins.

On Windows, it may be that you get a 256 pixel icon with small icon on top left. This is simply how windows handles the case when no big icon is available.

For Linux, please use LinuxIconMBS module.

Some examples using this method:

The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS Picture Plugin.


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