Icon/Bitmap + text on a button

Shay Harel

Here is an easy one for you experts.... How do I put a bitmap or an icon on a CButton control and include test as well. what I need is to have the text "Open..." on the button with a small folder icon/bitmap on the left side. Any naswers ? Thanks in advance, Shay

Chris Losinger

there are a number of bitmap button classes here on CP that will do what you want. i happen to like this one[^]. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

Jorgen Sigvardsson

Unfortunately, that class doesn't handle XP themes, so it would look really ugly in an XP GUI. -- Pictures[^] from my Japan trip.

Chris Losinger

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

so it would look really ugly in an XP GUI

doesn't everything? i still use the 'classic' (Win98) style in XP. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

Jorgen Sigvardsson

> doesn't everything? Indeed. Which is why I'm using the ChaNinja style. > i still use the 'classic' (Win98) style in XP. Yikes! My customers however mostly run XP as is. I doubt many of them know what a theme is. I do know though that they will be able to spot the difference between a seemingly square chunky thing and the rest of the GUI (the Fisher Price/Lego Duplo theme ;)). The worst part is that I've got customers running Win98, Me, NT4 and 2000, so anytime I need to hack up a control, I have to give it two rendering routines. :sigh: (And I refuse to buy a third party class library as well. On a pre-XP box, I want things to look pre-XP. I guess I'm a stubborn GUI fascist :)) -- Pictures[^] from my Japan trip.

normanS

I recommend the brute force approach. Since you want to put a bitmap on the button, why not simply include the text you want in the bitmap? (i.e. your bitmap has the text "Open" with the small folder picture next to it.)