Toolbar Question - WRT Porting from VB 6

[PatL]

I've got a VB 6 application that I ported over to VS 2005. The application has a toolbar on it.

When building it in VB 6, I created all the bitmaps for the toolbar. And they looked just fine.

Now I have ported to VS 2005. The toolbar works just fine. But the images in the toolbar look "wrong". The best way to describe them is if you took each bitmap and squeezed it down to about 67% of it's size. So it is missing the detail it used to have. And the smalleer picture still takes up the same amount of space on the toolbar. It is just that each squeezed bitmap now looks like it has a thick, blank pictureframe around it.

And I get the same problem with the icon I set up with the .exe.

Suggestions?

Thanks

Pat

 

[jmcilhinney]

What type of images did you use? How exactly did you put them on the tool buttons?

 

[jmcilhinney]

Please post in the most appropriate forum for the topic of your question, not just the first one you come to. Moved.

 

[PatL]

What type of images did you use? How exactly did you put them on the tool buttons?

I built the images with Paint. They are 32x32 pixil bitmaps. So nothing special there.

To put them in the ToolStripButton, first I added the BitMaps as resources. Then I set the image of each ToolStripButton via the property dialog.

Appologies about posting in the wrong section. I did look through all the other topics, but found none that were specific to tool strips. What is the appropriate forum for this subject?

Thanks

Pat

 

[jmcilhinney]

What is the appropriate forum for this subject?

The one that it's now in because, as I said, I moved it.

 

[jmcilhinney]

I've never used anything but 16x16 images on a ToolStrip but, if you want 32x32, I think you need to look at the ImageScalingSize property for a start.