(High-color) icon management
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For standard toolbars the Studio creates a 16-color bitmap and puts all icons into that single bitmap. But what if you use third party controls that supports high-color icons, how do you manage your icons? Currently I have all icons in individual bmp files which I add to my resources and then set the icons manually at runtime, which is pretty painful. I also gave up to put them all into a single bitmap because I had to count the pixels to know where the new icon begins. I would like to have a set of 16-color bitmaps and one with 24-bit, maybe 32-bit with alpha channel. How do you manage your icons? Any tool recommendation?
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For standard toolbars the Studio creates a 16-color bitmap and puts all icons into that single bitmap. But what if you use third party controls that supports high-color icons, how do you manage your icons? Currently I have all icons in individual bmp files which I add to my resources and then set the icons manually at runtime, which is pretty painful. I also gave up to put them all into a single bitmap because I had to count the pixels to know where the new icon begins. I would like to have a set of 16-color bitmaps and one with 24-bit, maybe 32-bit with alpha channel. How do you manage your icons? Any tool recommendation?
Create bitmap in any tool you like, then import in into VS. I'm using http://www.awicons.com/awicons.html, but any special icon editor will do. When you will need to edit bitmap, just open it in external tool, without doing anything in VS. Igor Green http://www.grigsoft.com/ - files and folders comparison tools
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Create bitmap in any tool you like, then import in into VS. I'm using http://www.awicons.com/awicons.html, but any special icon editor will do. When you will need to edit bitmap, just open it in external tool, without doing anything in VS. Igor Green http://www.grigsoft.com/ - files and folders comparison tools
Thanks, but I'm not looking for a tool to create/paint the icons but for a tool where I can create a single bitmap out of the individuals and assign a Command ID to each button. I'm looking for a tool like this: http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToolbarEditor.asp[^]