Thanks .. it worked. :)

I want to be able to create a CToolbar control on the fly by reading from a text file. The text file will tell me the number of buttons, the name for each of the button, the bmp file that has the bitmap for each button (or the image id and a bmp file with an image list). I have to be able to read this file and create the toolbar in my SDI MFC app. Can someone, please show me, how I could form the imagelist from these bitmap files? Thanks S:confused: