How can i make an toolbar icon 48x48 256 colour

vasmvr

Hi all can someone help me? I want to make a toolbar with nice icon (48x48 256 colours) but when i copy my icon, the visual c++ make my icon 16 coluors. Is possible to have icon with 256 coluors? Thanks in advance

Nishad S

vasmvr wrote:

when i copy my icon, the visual c++ make my icon 16 coluors.

You are probably placing an icon of 256 colors in to 16 color icon. If so you have to add a new icon of 256 colors. It is available in menu, Image > New Device Image.

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vasmvr

Thank you, but Where is menu, Image > New Device Image?

Nishad S

You just open the icon from resource. Could you?

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vasmvr

I can't see the menu image.....i'm using visual c++ 6.0.

Nishad S

ok... can you just show me the caption of the MSDEV? eg..MyDlgTestApp - Microsoft Visual C++ - [MyDlgTestApp.rc - IDR_MAINFRAME (Icon)]

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vasmvr

I undestand what you mean, but in this way i only import an Icon under Icon folder. I want this icon to the toolbar but if i copy to the toolbar it will change in 16 colours. or i do something wrong?

vasmvr

MyApp - Microsoft Visual C++ - [MyApp.rc - IDR_MYAPP [Italian (Italy)](Bitmap)] This is the caption

Nishad S

vasmvr wrote:

want this icon to the toolbar but if i copy to the toolbar it will change in 16 colours.

I am not sure about how to directly use it... But you can show higher color resolution icons in the toolbar by using an imagelist. Sorry, I dont have a code sample to show you.

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vasmvr

Thanks, you mean to create a bitmap with all my icon and then extract each icon from it?

Nishad S

You can add icons directly to imagelist

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vasmvr

Thank u NS, finally i did. Thank you very much for your help. -- modified at 3:09 Tuesday 4th September, 2007