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Toolbar images

BCGControlBar Library has different abilities to show toolbar icons – they are faded until the mouse comes over them, highlighted being mouseovered, and have a grey look without any highlighting when disabled.

The user is enabled to change the appearance of toolbar images, and even create his own ones, using a simple image editing dialog, which is the internal part of BCGControlBar Library:

The BCGControlBar Library provides Alpha blending support for toolbar images for creation high-quality toolbar images adapted to the system colors.

The ToolBar Images class simplifies processing of toolbar images loaded from resource files or from disk files.

The toolbar bitmap is a large bitmap containing a set of small images (toolbar images) of a fixed size.

The ToolBar Images class:

• Supports access to toolbar images by index and by associated command ID
• Renders images by index ID
• Adjusts images color palette to the system palette
• Allows to maintain user defined images, created during toolbar customization