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addicons commandbars method

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Topic: addicons commandbars method

Posted By: muldoon96
Subject: addicons commandbars method
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 11:28am

I am using CodeJock 11.1.3 with Progress 10.1 B. I have an ImageManager and a CommandBarFrames in my design window, and I am trying to get the CommandBarsFrame to use the icons in the ImageManager:

chcommandbar.commandbarsframe.icons.addicons (chimagemanager.imagemanager.icons)

but I get the error 'invalid component handle referenced while processing method/statement: addicons'

It works fine if I simply do this:

chcommandbar.commandbarsframe.icons = chimagemanager.imagemanager.icons

I am just a bit concerned doing it this way as I cannot find anything in the CodeJock documentation that says you can simply set one to equal the other - the documentation says use 'addicons' which doesn't seem to work for me.

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 11:53am

Hi,

Yes its "official" method to assign icons :)

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: muldoon96
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 11:57am

Sorry Oleg, I'm not quite clear - you are saying that they way I am doing it is correct, and the 'addicons' method should not be used ?

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 12:13pm

Yes, your method is correct. 'addicons' will not work because by default CommandBarsframe.Icons returns Null.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: muldoon96
Date Posted: 15 April 2008 at 12:22pm

Thanks Oleg. Can I ask you two more questions on this please?

I am actually adding icons to a Shortcutbar control and then setting my CommandbarsFrame icons by doing this:

chcommandbar.commandbarsframe.icons = chshortcutbar.shortcutbar.icons

Would it be better to add the icons to an ImageManager control and then set both the ShortCutBar and the CommandbarsFrame to use the icons there, as below, or does it not really matter?

chshortcutbar.shortcutbar.icons = chimagemanager.imagemanager.icons

chcommandbar.commandbarsframe.icons = chimagemanager.imagemanager.icons

The second question is to do with ImageManagerIcons.loadbitmap. I am actually loading .png files and it seems to work, but the documentation says you must load .bmp files. Is the documentation out-of-date ?