32Bit Icons In Toolbar?

[colordeficiency]

Anyone know how to get the 32Bit icons with Alpha blending instead of the block color drawn by Systen.Drawing.Bitmap?

[lexecutil]

Try calling Application.EnableVisualStyles or something like that. If I remember right that fixes it. The problem occurs when converting the icon to Bitmap, so if possible add the Icon directly instead of converting to Bitmap.

Dan

[colordeficiency]

  dannyres said:

Try calling Application.EnableVisualStyles or something like that.  If I remember right that fixes it.  The problem occurs when converting the icon to Bitmap, so if possible add the Icon directly instead of converting to Bitmap.

Dan

From a imagelist how do I add icons instead of bitmap? I use the properties to add and it convert them to bitmap.

Can someone interprete this? http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/3/18031.aspx

Edited March 25, 2004 by Alvin

[azcodemonkey]

Set the ColorDepth property of the ImageList to Depth32Bit. You want to use bitmaps as opposed to the Icon class. The Icon class is more for interoperabilty.

[colordeficiency]

  weenur said:

Set the ColorDepth property of the ImageList to Depth32Bit. You want to use bitmaps as opposed to the Icon class. The Icon class is more for interoperabilty.

I know bout the colordepth, just than when it's convert to bitmap the alpha channel is painted solid black as oppose to a icon like those on Microsoft own product.

[azcodemonkey]

Are you adding the icons dynamically? I can't duplicate your issue at all.

[colordeficiency]

Adding the icons to the imagelist from the properties section. And i try to display the icon in the toolbar is looks awful

[azcodemonkey]

Would you post your project? If not, that's cool. I'd like to see if I can duplicate your prob with your code.

[colordeficiency]

I didn't code anything, just clicky click on the properties tab.

? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?'ImageList1
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?Me.ImageList1.ColorDepth = System.Windows.Forms.ColorDepth.Depth32Bit
 ? ? ? ?Me.ImageList1.ImageSize = New System.Drawing.Size(48, 48)
 ? ? ? ?Me.ImageList1.ImageStream = CType(resources.GetObject("ImageList1.ImageStream"), System.Windows.Forms.ImageListStreamer)
 ? ? ? ?Me.ImageList1.TransparentColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?'ToolBar1
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.Appearance = System.Windows.Forms.ToolBarAppearance.Flat
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.Buttons.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.ToolBarButton() {Me.ToolBarButton1, Me.ToolBarButton2, Me.ToolBarButton3, Me.ToolBarButton4})
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.DropDownArrows = True
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.ImageList = Me.ImageList1
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(0, 0)
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.Name = "ToolBar1"
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.ShowToolTips = True
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(520, 60)
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBar1.TabIndex = 13
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?'ToolBarButton1
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBarButton1.ImageIndex = 0
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?'ToolBarButton4
 ? ? ? ?'
 ? ? ? ?Me.ToolBarButton4.ImageIndex = 1

Generate by Windows Form Designer

[azcodemonkey]

I'm stumped, man. I can't get mine to fail. What version of VB.NET are you using? Maybe you should send me your icons... it's not that I doubt that you have valid 32-bit icons, it's just that I'm running out of ideas.

[colordeficiency]

Attached are the icons in question.

[anthonycara]

hmm well can u add the icons directlry to the project and reference them then?

[colordeficiency]

The toolbar itself only can have icons from a imagelist.

[azcodemonkey]

There's something odd with the delete.ico. For me, the blank.ico works, but the delete.ico doesn't. Also, I get an ArgumentException when binding the imagelist to the toolbar. You might want to see if you can find another imagelist control.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Try using 32Bit bitmaps instead of icons, i have had some stuff like that happening before

btw. dont use Application.EnableVisualStyle, it screws up some stuff, a .manifest file is alot better