"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I just wrote a quick Windows app with some toolbar buttons. In design
view,
> the buttons show up fine, but when I run the app, the toolbar button
images
> don't show up. Is there some simple setting that I am missing? I've
tried
> using both .GIF and .BMP format, and both show up fine in the designer
> (although the GIF is the only one that has transparency working normally).
>
>

"Pete" <pvidler@gawab.com> wrote in message
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> Are you using EnableVisualStyles? If so use Application.DoEvents
immediately
> after it.
>
> -- Pete
>
> Keith Patrick wrote:
> > I just wrote a quick Windows app with some toolbar buttons. In
> > design view, the buttons show up fine, but when I run the app, the
> > toolbar button images don't show up. Is there some simple setting
> > that I am missing? I've tried using both .GIF and .BMP format, and
> > both show up fine in the designer (although the GIF is the only one
> > that has transparency working normally).
>
>

Keith Patrick wrote:
> I just wrote a quick Windows app with some toolbar buttons. In
> design view, the buttons show up fine, but when I run the app, the
> toolbar button images don't show up. Is there some simple setting
> that I am missing? I've tried using both .GIF and .BMP format, and
> both show up fine in the designer (although the GIF is the only one
> that has transparency working normally).

> Heh...musta had a bit too much to drink tonight :) Just saw
> a nearly identical post a few messages down. The explanation,
> though, (Windows not supporting themed buttons with images)
> screams "LAAAAME" anyway, though.