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[Nautilus]

This is not game-programming related.

Desktop icons: what are they exactly?
They do not directly belong to the Desktop window itself, but are spawned & controlled by a process named Progman
Its window is named "Program manager". Hide it, and all Desktop icons disappear. So that's where I have to go.

But what are those icons?
They possess no window handle, so they aren't windows.
And they don't seem to be buttons of a toolbar (like the icons shown within the Tray Notification Area).

That should leave only 2 possibilities:
(a) pictures blitted over a rect;
(b) icons of a ListView control (which is (a) all the same, but with some differences)

I believe it's (b): icons of a ListView. But nobody I know can either confirm or deny.

Anyone knows?

Thanks In Advance,
Ciao ciao : )

[Reedbeta]

Yes, I seem to remember once hearing that they are created by a customized version of a ListView control, which I believe is parented to the actual desktop window.

[roel]

http://www.codeproje.../TransIcon.aspx