Platform SDK Shell, Hidden file icon

I'm trying to retrieve an icon for a file with the "hidden" attribute
such that it looks like the Explorer-style icon for a hidden file.

SHGetFileInfo with file attributes set doesn't seem to be doing it with
either FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN or FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN |
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.

There is a flag to get a "selected" icon and that is pretty simple. How
does one get a "hidden" icon?
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Paul Crowley
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It doesn't work this way. Instead you take a normal icon and blend it
with the control's background if the corresponding item is hidden. The
native Windows treeview and listview controls (SysTreeView32 and
SysListView32) do the blending for you, if you set the TVIS_CUT/LVIS_CUT
item state for the corresponding item.

HTH
Timo
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Thanks. I was looking for something with "hidden" and "cut" doesn't
seem to have much to do with it. But, that is the way of this, isn't
it?

All fixed now. Again, thanks.

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I agree with the answer from Timo, There is no special icon for a hiden or
cut file but shell uses the normal icon and blend it for you.

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