Re: Anyone Figured Out How to Set Menu Image in Feature Pack?

From:
"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:46:07 -0600
Message-ID:
<eBdVQ9jKJHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Bogdan,

This is odd. One would expect the static method
AddToolBarForImageCollection() to work for menus in a ribbon bar if it
works for menus in a menu bar. The toolbar resource seem to be a good
choice because this the only resource where you can associate images with
IDs.
Maybe the reason why it does not work is that menu bar is derived from a
toolbar and a ribbon bar is not. Toolbar resources might be loaded into
global/static containers and then made available to toolbar derived
classes only (pure speculation).

Please post your solution if you find one.


After sleeping on it, I spent more time on this, making a new toolbar
resource with true color with alpha channel and ensuring
AddToolBarForImageCollection() returned TRUE. But still no luck.

It sounds like you've worked with this a bit. I wonder if I might run one
additional question by you: What about a ribbon element that does nothing
but display a menu? Where does one get an ID for such an element? Even
though the element is not associated with any command, if I don't associate
it with a command that has a valid handler, the element is disabled! This
has also caused me to waste a lot of time.

Thanks.

Jonathan

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