Menu bar icons

[ultimateshadowx9]

im making an update on my program, and the first thing i wanted to do was to change the menu bar icons, like instead of having the ones now,i want to have my own set of icons, and ive made sure that there icons. but i couldnt find a thing about changing the menu bar icons anywhere, so how do i change them?

i'll also have some other things i want to update as well.

[RobDog888]

What menu bar? In your app or in Windows or ?

If its your app then when you created the menubar you need to place your icons with that, usually using APIs to draw the Menu bitmaps.

Or are you talking about Toolbars?

[ultimateshadowx9]

What menu bar? In your app or in Windows or ?

If its your app then when you created the menubar you need to place your icons with that, usually using APIs to draw the Menu bitmaps.

Or are you talking about Toolbars?

im talking about toolbars

[RobDog888]

Ok then thats not a menu, place your icons in an imagelist and associate that with the toolbar. Set each buttons icon to relate to the index key associated with the image you want in the image list.

[ultimateshadowx9]

Ok then thats not a menu, place your icons in an imagelist and associate that with the toolbar. Set each buttons icon to relate to the index key associated with the image you want in the image list.

is the image list like a folder with images in it?
if so:
how do i associate the tool bar with the image list? or does it have to be in the same file, but with different names?

[RobDog888]

An ImageList is a control. You add it to your toolbox as "Windows Common Controls 6.0". If you have a toolbar then it should be already added as the toolbar is in that controls group too.

[ultimateshadowx9]

yes ok, but how do i change the images to the ones i want?

[RobDog888]

How did the images get there to start with? Usually a toobar button is blank.

[ultimateshadowx9]

well, i didnt want to go making an etire program from sctratch, so i used the wizard to take care of my needs, but how do i change them?

[Keithuk]

but how do i change them?

If you already have a ToolBar on your Form then select the ToolBar and select the Custom properties. In the ImageList Combo select None then OK. Or put an ImageList on your Form then select Custom from the properties window. Click on the Images tab and add all your icons.

Then go back to your ToolBar Custom properties and select the ImageList from the ImageList combo, for the icons you want to use. Then on the Buttons tab you can setup your buttons with the image index for the icons.

[ultimateshadowx9]

yes but how do i get a image list on the form?

[RobDog888]

Add it to your toolbox but it should be there is you have added the common controls 6.0 for the toolbar. Just drag n drop the imagelist control from the toolbox and populate with images.

[ultimateshadowx9]

ahh, ok got that now.
and if i wanted it on the menus, wouldnt it be the same, but different way of adding them on?

[RobDog888]

Now if you are talking about images on menus, toolbar dropdown menus or standard menus?

[ultimateshadowx9]

standard menus

[RobDog888]

Ok, then check out this link as its very good for adding nice looking images to menus.

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...ol/article.asp