VS2005 ROTD (Rant of the day!)

[Shog9 0]

Obliterator wrote:

Does anyone know of an add-in that provides the ability to edit high colour toolbars?

GIMP? PSP? Photoshop? I gave up on doing toolbar images all in one big bitmap years ago, as it's just too much of a hassle (you need another whole bitmap for each size, color depth, state...) I use one .ico file or resource for each button - this allows me to keep multiple sizes and color depths together - and then use a few simple algorithms to generate "hot" and disabled images at runtime. It's made things sooo much simpler, you might want to give it a try if you have more than a few toolbars...

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[Dan Neely]

The icon creation guide for XP style icons said to have your graphics artist make a highres one in photoshop and scale it to each required resolution after making it suitably shiny. VS05 didn't upgrade the icon tools because devs aren't supposed to be creating icons anymore.

[Maximilien]

but I/we cannot "edit" the toolbar in VS.net 2003, it wants to convert the bitmap to 16 colors. for example, if I want to add a spacer between to buttons, I need to have access to the toolbar editor ( not the toolbar bitmap editor )

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[Anton Afanasyev]

or, rather we can, but make them placeholders - i dunno, stick figures...yeah, that must be the way - stick_figure OPEN and FOLDER icons. anyone care to draw those for a good laugh? rara avis in terris

[b_girl]

that would be great - would love to see that. hehehe. :)

[Jim Crafton]

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[Gary R Wheeler]

dan neely wrote:

devs aren't supposed to be creating icons anymore

Yeah, that works really well when you work for a big multinational corporation and you're told that the commercial art department will get to your request for 7 stinking icons sometime in Q2 of 2007.

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[Obliterator]

No I'd not seen that one. I'll give it a try. Thanks -- The Obliterator

[Obliterator]

Exactly my point! Well it seems I'm not alone in my request. Microsoft have an 'active suggestion' on their VS2005 feedback site. It now has 2 votes! I wonder how many it needs before they implement it?! https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=134188[^] -- The Obliterator

[Obliterator]

heheh agreed. but without a toolbar editor how is a developer meant to work with the shiny images when he eventually gets them from the art department?! answer obviously is the hard way - by hand! -- The Obliterator

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Try [http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToolbarEditor.asp](<a href=)[^]" rel="nofollow">this[[http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToolbarEditor.asp](<a href= "New Window")[^]">^] as well.

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[Obliterator]

That looks really promising, cheers. -- The Obliterator