ButtonEx and bitmaps

[msmith]

I've been playing with the ButtonEx control that I dounloaded from the custom contols section.

It is a very nice control, but my program blows up when I try to set a bitmap to the button.

I believe that is because I'm sending a bitmap handle while the control expects a resource ID.

I am using thBitmapFromMemory routine from Ernie Murphy to create the handle. Is there any way to
use ButtonEx with bitmaps without actually having a resource section?

[gabor]

Hello!


Do I understand you right?
You want to create a bitmap button.
You load a bitmap from a bmp file, not from resource section (not via the LoadBitmap function).
You want to assign this bitmap to the button.

Well, I searched the API help, but could not find any handle-resource ID conversion  :'(.
Is it not possible to use the bitmap handle directly with that ButtonEx? I mean isn't there a message that sets the bitmap of the button and accepts bitmap handles? I saw in the ButtonEx topic that there are specific messages for the button, so if there is no such message, it could be created...

Greets, Gábor

[msmith]

All of the normal uses of bitmaps that I know of such as static and button controls, etc. require the handle to a bitmap which has been created from either a resource, a file, or from memory.

The ButtonEx control appears to require a "raw" resource.

[msmith]

My suspicion was correct.

If I put the bitmap in the resource section and give the resource ID as args to ButtonEx, it works.

[zcoder]

The ButtonEx function should have been written
with an extra flag Param send to it to denote
resource or handle of bitmap, the control would then
be more flexible.


Zcoder....