I have a pushbutton with a bitmap with 3 "images".

i.e. one .BMP file with 3 "button images"

They are for UP, DOWN, and DISABLED.

What control property do I need to look at to

determine which of the "3" images is visible.

Thanks…

Steve C.

The IMAGENUMBER property looks like what you need.

Jeff

Steve,

On a push-button, you cannot specify which of the images is visible … that is done automatically. With a bitmap control (which you can use to emulate a button) you can set the IMAGENUMBER … even easier is to use a check-box control so you can toggle the image by setting CHECK and some automatic button processing is built in.

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

Cameron.

What I want to do is have several push buttons at the top

of a form and allow the user to select multiple buttons.

I want to show that when a button is selected it remains

in the "down" position until the user pushes the button

again and it goes to the "up" position. Some of these buttons

may be "disabled" depending on the the users security level.

Would it be best to have a normal pushbutton to show the

3 positions up, down, and disabled, but when the button is

pushed down change the BITMAP property to a single "down" image,

and then when it is press again reload the 3 position bitmap.

Thanks…. Steve C.

Cameron.

What I want to do is have several push buttons at the top

of a form and allow the user to select multiple buttons.

I want to show that when a button is selected it remains

in the "down" position until the user pushes the button

again and it goes to the "up" position. Some of these buttons

may be "disabled" depending on the the users security level.

Would it be best to have a normal pushbutton to show the

3 positions up, down, and disabled, but when the button is

pushed down change the BITMAP property to a single "down" image,

and then when it is press again reload the 3 position bitmap.

Thanks…. Steve C.

Cameron.

What I want to do is have several push buttons at the top

of a form and allow the user to select multiple buttons.

I want to show that when a button is selected it remains

in the "down" position until the user pushes the button

again and it goes to the "up" position. Some of these buttons

may be "disabled" depending on the the users security level.

Would it be best to have a normal pushbutton to show the

3 positions up, down, and disabled, but when the button is

pushed down change the BITMAP property to a single "down" image,

and then when it is press again reload the 3 position bitmap.

Thanks…. Steve C.

Steve,

As Cameron mentioned, what you really want to do here is use CHECKBOX controls and set their BITMAP property to the one you'd use for your button. That way they remain 'down' when clicked until they are clicked again, so all this is taken care of for you, as is enabling and disabling.

The first three images states, Up, Down and Disabled are the same for CHECKBOX's and BUTTONs, so you shouldn't have to alter your bitmap.

cpates@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura Ltd

World Leaders in all things RevSoft

Carl,

The checkbox looks like it IS what I really need.

Funny how I've been working with OI since it first

came out… but never did notice that it

had the bitmap property also. I just over looked it.

Thanks again…

Steve C.

What do you use to save a BMP with multiple images in it?

Paint?

Imagine a six button image - each button 40x40. The total image size would be 6*40 by 40, so 240*40.

So draw six buttons into this space and save as a regular BMP.

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Mykl,

A BMP like this one?

btnexmpl.bmp

(Hope it shows.)

- Oystein -

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