Use Larger Icon Toolbar With More color

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Hi all,

I wanna make a large toolbar with support of icons with more colors depth than default in Visual Studio.

I am using Visual Studio 2005. So people, hwo can I create a toolbar with support of 256 colors (for instance).

NB: my toolbar is on a CDialog Window.

I used the Code found : here but did not work.

C++

int CSalariesForm::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    if (CDialog::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
        return -1;

    HBITMAP hBitmap = (HBITMAP) ::LoadImage(AfxGetInstanceHandle(),
        MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MAINFRAME1), IMAGE_BITMAP,
        0,0, LR_CREATEDIBSECTION | LR_LOADMAP3DCOLORS);

    CBitmap bm;
    bm.Attach(hBitmap);


    CImageList m_imagelist;
    m_imagelist.Create(20, 20, ILC_COLOR8, 4, 4);
    m_imagelist.Add(&bm, (CBitmap*) NULL);

    cToolBar.Create(this);
    cToolBar.GetToolBarCtrl().SetImageList(&m_imagelist);

    cToolBar.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
    cToolBar.SetBarStyle(CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLOATING | CBRS_ALIGN_TOP | CBRS_FLYBY);
    RepositionBars(AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_FIRST, AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_LAST, 0);
    return 0;
}

Help !!!

Thank you

Posted 23-Dec-12 4:28am

Schehaider_Aymen

Updated 24-Dec-12 9:37am

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Schehaider_Aymen 24-Dec-12 14:30pm

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Schehaider_Aymen · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-26T04:29:00

I found the answer, so this is how I proceeded :

C++

//header file
private:
    CImageList m_imagelist;
    CToolBar   m_toolbar;

&

C++

// source file
enum { width = 20, height = 20 }; // width and height of one button image

m_toolbar.Create(this);

// create the image list
m_imagelist.Attach(
    ImageList_LoadImage(
        AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1), width, 4, 
        CLR_DEFAULT, IMAGE_BITMAP, LR_CREATEDIBSECTION | LR_LOADTRANSPARENT )
);

// set button and image sizes (copied from CToolBar::LoadToolBar)
m_toolbar.SetSizes(CSize(width+7,height+7), CSize(width,height));

// set image list
m_toolbar.GetToolBarCtrl().SetImageList(&m_imagelist);

// define command ids for each button
const UINT cmdIds[] = { 
    IDOK,
    0,        // separator
    IDCANCEL,
};

// assign ids to the toolbar
m_toolbar.SetButtons(cmdIds, sizeof(cmdIds)/sizeof(UINT));

RepositionBars(AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_FIRST, AFX_IDW_CONTROLBAR_LAST, 0);