-Juha

For god only knows what reason, black doesn't show up when you load the
buttons. Assign a caption to one of the buttons (one letter is enough). The
black part of your icons will miraculously appear.

Of course now your buttons are huge. After you've removed the caption, set the
button size to zero (or be smart and note what they were before) and they will
resize to the size of the pictures you loaded.

This works for me anyway.

P.S. I discovered this by accident!

Is anyone else having problems with the toolbar control?  Any bitmaps
I assign to the individual buttons (via an ImageList control) look
terrible.  I'm using the bitmaps supplied with VB4 in the
\bitmaps\tlbr_w95 directory.

Am I missing something here or doing something incredibly stupid?

TIA, -Kevin-

I think you have to change the mask property or something like that to
something other than black.  It uses the color to do just that, mask
it out.

George

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Steve.

All you  need to do is change the MASK COLOUR on the Image List
control that contains the BITMAPS for the TOOLBAR to somethig other
than Black... which is the default.

William J. Fisher
RedBird Softworks

Quote from article in PC PRO Jan 96

"Microsoft supplies some bitmaps for use with toolbars & list view
controls, but you should use icon where possible. Icons have
transparent pixels where the background colour shows thru. This is
important in Win 95 where the user may have set thier button
colours to pale pink instead of default grey."

It goes on to describe how to change bitmaps to icons using the
ImagEdit application.

Steve.