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Lee Won Jun f28d009131 [CmdPal] WindowWalker Show the actual window icon instead of the process icon (#42316)
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This is a PR for issue **#42260**.
It targets **CmdPal’s WindowWalker** and changes the icon retrieval to
use **SendMessage** to obtain the window’s actual icon, instead of using
the **process icon**.

To support this, I added a new configuration option.

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## PR Checklist

- [ ] Closes: #42260
- [ ] **Communication:** @jiripolasek 
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Actully, The `ThumbnailHelper` already contains code that converts an
`IntPtr` `hIcon` into an `IRandomAccessStream`, as shown below:

```
 private static MemoryStream GetMemoryStreamFromIcon(IntPtr hIcon)
 {
     var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

     // Ensure disposing the icon before freeing the handle
     using (var icon = Icon.FromHandle(hIcon))
     {
         icon.ToBitmap().Save(memoryStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
     }

     // Clean up the unmanaged handle without risking a use-after-free.
     NativeMethods.DestroyIcon(hIcon);

     memoryStream.Position = 0;
     return memoryStream;
 }

 private static async Task<IRandomAccessStream?> FromHIconToStream(IntPtr hIcon)
 {
     var stream = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream();

     using var memoryStream = GetMemoryStreamFromIcon(hIcon); // this will DestroyIcon hIcon
     using var outputStream = stream.GetOutputStreamAt(0);
     using var dataWriter = new DataWriter(outputStream);

     dataWriter.WriteBytes(memoryStream.ToArray());
     await dataWriter.StoreAsync();
     await dataWriter.FlushAsync();

     return stream;
 }
```

Without modifying (or using) this code, I implemented the almost same
logic directly in `SwitchToWindowCommand` (calling the async code with
`Wait` to block synchronously). The reasons are:

1. I wanted to limit changes to the **WindowWalker** project area. I
don’t expect other extensions to need this behavior.
2. Because this is resource-related work, exposing a public helper that
pulls memory from an `hIcon` pointer seems risky—especially in a class
like `ThumbnailHelper`.

Therefore, I implemented behavior that is nearly identical to the
snippet above.

I did use `using`/`Dispose` where appropriate, but the
`InMemoryRandomAccessStream` created for `IconInfo.FromStream` appears
to use internal referencing; disposing it would be incorrect. For that
reason I didn’t wrap it in a `using`. I’m not entirely sure whether GC
will handle this cleanly.

However, based on the implementation of `FromStream` itself and its
usage elsewhere (e.g., in `ThumbnailHelper`), this seems to be the
correct usage pattern, though I’m not entirely sure.

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Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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check-spelling/check-spelling configuration

File Purpose Format Info
allow.txt Add words to the dictionary one word per line (only letters and 's allowed) allow
reject.txt Remove words from the dictionary (after allow) grep pattern matching whole dictionary words reject
excludes.txt Files to ignore entirely perl regular expression excludes
only.txt Only check matching files (applied after excludes) perl regular expression only
patterns.txt Patterns to ignore from checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
candidate.patterns Patterns that might be worth adding to patterns.txt perl regular expression with optional comment block introductions (all matches will be suggested) candidates
line_forbidden.patterns Patterns to flag in checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
expect.txt Expected words that aren't in the dictionary one word per line (sorted, alphabetically) expect
advice.md Supplement for GitHub comment when unrecognized words are found GitHub Markdown advice

Note: you can replace any of these files with a directory by the same name (minus the suffix) and then include multiple files inside that directory (with that suffix) to merge multiple files together.