I'm having trouble getting the AddIcon method working in the ReportControl.  I'm familiar with this method and use it with various other controls (eg, CommandBars, ShortcutBar, TaskPanel etc).

 

I have an icon defined which is 16x16.  If I use the LoadIcon method then the icon is correctly set for a column, but if I switch to use the AddIcon method it doesn't display.

 

Has anybody used this successfully?

 

Regards,

 

Andy

 

Unfortunately, the language that we use is Clarion and this doesn't support the ImageList function so I can't really use SetImageList.

 

As I mentioned earlier, the AddIcon works perfectly in Clarion for all of the other controls but will not work for the ReportControl - is there something different in this control or does it just not work?

 

Regards,

 

Andy

 

Excuse my ignorance but doesn't that method require an object whereas all I have is a handle to a compiled in icon - that's why I want to use the AddIcon method.

 

Can you think of any other way to get AddIcon to work?

 

Regards,

 

Andy

Internally now ReportControl use ImageManager this is why I recommended to use it. Call wndReportControl.SetImageList use ImageManager inside ActiveX to pass you params.

 

There is old VB-way to deal with icons. You can try it also.

 

Dim iconArray(0 To 9) As Long

    'There are 10 icons in the Bitmap file, the bitmap file is 160x16,
    'which contains 10 16x16 icons. You need to make sure that there is
    'an element in the array for each icon in the Bitmap.
    'Width of icons = Width of Bitmap / number of elements in array
    'I.e. Width of icons = 160/10 = 16
    'IconId can not be Zero (0), so do not assign 0 to any of the array elements
    iconArray(0) = COLUMN_MAIL_ICON
    iconArray(1) = COLUMN_IMPORTANCE_ICON
    iconArray(2) = COLUMN_CHECK_ICON
    iconArray(3) = RECORD_UNREAD_MAIL_ICON
    iconArray(4) = RECORD_READ_MAIL_ICON
    iconArray(5) = RECORD_REPLIED_ICON
    iconArray(6) = RECORD_IMPORTANCE_HIGH_ICON
    iconArray(7) = COLUMN_ATTACHMENT_ICON
    iconArray(8) = COLUMN_ATTACHMENT_NORMAL_ICON
    iconArray(9) = RECORD_IMPORTANCE_LOW_ICON

    'Passing the iconArray for the "Commands" parameter will add an icon to the collection
    'of icons for each item in the array. So Number of icons added = Number of elements in array.
    'Icon width = Total width of Bitmap/Number of elements in array.
    'The icons will be assigned the index of the array elements as an Index.
    wndReportControl.Icons.LoadBitmap App.Path & "\Icons\bmreport.bmp", iconArray, xtpImageNormal

 

Thanks, I'll take a closer look at the SetImageList but I'm not convinced I'll be able to use this with Clarion.

 

Interesting, If I use the LoadIcon method with the desired parameters it all works fine, its just the AddIcon method - I can only presume that its faulty.

 

Regards,

 

Andy

 

Hi,

 

If you use wndReportControl.Icons.AddBitmap Picture1.Picture.Handle, 1, xtpImageNormal, False it will display the image in columnheader.

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                                                                                This is PictureBox with image

 

 

If I use .AddIcon it doesn't. Columnheader image supports icons so it should work... 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahh - found it.  It was my fault after all, but I thought I'd share the answer with everyone as it could quite easily catch others out.

 

The AddIcon method requires the handle to the compiled in icon.  To obtain this, I use the 'LoadImage' API call with parameters 4 and 5 (desired width and height) set to 0 - default size.

 

The problem is that even though the icon is defined as 16x16, I am getting a handle to an image of 32x32 and of course, the ReportControl doesn't like this size for its icons.  If I set the width / height parameters of 'LoadImage' to 16x16 then it returns a handle to an image of 16x16 and then of course the ReportControl displays it correctly.

 

Regards,

 

Andy