phoneGetIconW function (tapi.h)

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02/09/2023

The phoneGetIcon function allows an application to retrieve a service phone device-specific (or provider-specific) icon that can be displayed to the user.

Syntax

LONG phoneGetIconW(
  DWORD   dwDeviceID,
  LPCWSTR lpszDeviceClass,
  LPHICON lphIcon
);

Parameters

dwDeviceID

Identifier of the phone device whose icon is requested.

lpszDeviceClass

Pointer to a null-terminated string that identifies a device class name. This device class allows the application to select a specific sub-icon applicable to that device class. This parameter is optional and can be left NULL or empty, in which case the highest-level icon associated with the phone device rather than a specified media stream device would be selected.

lphIcon

Pointer to a memory location in which the handle to the icon is returned.

Return value

Returns zero if the request succeeds or a negative error number if an error occurs. Possible return values are:

PHONEERR_BADDEVICEID, PHONEERR_RESOURCEUNAVAIL, PHONEERR_INVALPOINTER, PHONEERR_OPERATIONFAILED, PHONEERR_INVALDEVICECLASS, PHONEERR_UNINITIALIZED, PHONEERR_NOMEM, PHONEERR_NODEVICE.

Remarks

The phoneGetIcon function causes the provider to return a handle (in lphIcon) to an icon resource (obtained from LoadIcon) associated with the specified phone. The icon handle is for a resource associated with the provider; the application must use CopyIcon if it wants to reference the icon after the provider is unloaded, which is unlikely to happen as long as the application has the phone open.

The lpszDeviceClass parameter allows the provider to return different icons based on the type of service being referenced by the caller. The permitted strings are the same as for phoneGetID. For example, if the phone supports the Comm API, passing "COMM" as lpszDeviceClass causes the provider to return an icon related specifically to the Comm device functions of the service provider. The parameters "tapi/phone", "", or NULL can be used to request the icon for the phone service.

For applications using a TAPI version earlier than 2.0, if the provider does not return an icon (whether because the given device class is invalid or the provider does not support icons), TAPI substitutes a generic Telephony phone device icon. For applications using TAPI version 2.0 or later, TAPI substitutes the default phone icon only if the lpszDeviceClass parameter is "tapi/phone", "", or NULL. For any other device class, if the given device class is not valid or the provider does not support icons for the class, phoneGetIcon returns PHONEERR_INVALDEVICECLASS.

Note

The tapi.h header defines phoneGetIcon as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Target Platform	Windows
Header	tapi.h
Library	Tapi32.lib
DLL	Tapi32.dll