Best Icon size for displaying in the tray

Question

I am working on a Delphi program which will display an icon on the \"tray\". I am doing it \"the hard way\" (using the Shell_NotifyIcon api, etc and not a component, for rea

Answer 1

A single *.ico file is recommended for app icons. *.ico file can store different sizes of icons like 16, 32, 256 etc. You can convert different image files to ico format online here.

For tray icon 16x16 or 32x32 ico would fit.

Official msdn guide for icons: icons in Windows