How to use standard bitmaps in a toolbar

[Franken]

Hi all, I would like to create a toolbar with standard bitmaps like a play, record and a pause button but I do not know where I can find these bitmaps or how I can use these. Could somebody give me a hint? Thanks.

[kitty5]

what I've done in the past is open up the tool bar and draw what you'd like for each button. you can adjust the size of the toolbar (length and width) by going in to your ".rc" and looking for: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Toolbar // IDR_MAINFRAME TOOLBAR 45, 45 the "45, 45" are the length and width of the toolbar

Kitty5

[Franken]

Thank you Kitty5, but there should be a way to use all these standard bitmaps. I think they are somewhere in the system32 folder in windows xp. I don't like to redraw these icons if they already exist. Yes, it is easy for such simple bitmaps like a green triangle as play button or a red circle as record button. But it becomes harder if you try to redraw e.g. this folder bitmap of the open icon.

[kitty5]

this might help: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_vcresed/html/971c181b-40f5-44be-843d-677a7c235667.htm

Kitty5

-- modified at 9:29 Monday 24th July, 2006 also, those file folders, etc. are located in: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll ... not sure how u'll get the bitmaps out of the dll file...

[normanS]

Use the brute force & pig ignorance solution - it's simple, easy to explain, and it works. And you don't have to think too much. Open an application which uses the icons you want on its toolbar (Windows accessories /Audio recorder, for example.) Press Alt-PrtScr to copy the application window image to clipboard. Paste the image into Windows Paint (or whatever graphics editor you choose) Copy the images of the toolbar buttons one by one, and paste into Resource editor for your toolbar.