Topic: need help file for toolbars

[ELOQUINTET]

someone put together a help file for creating custom toolbars and putting them into a dll awhile ago and i was wondering if you have it handy could you post it. one of my coworkers is delving into it and i thought i'd give him some good advice. thanks

[David Hall]

Mark wrote a nice help file for that.  I'll see if I can find it

[David Hall]

This is the link

[ELOQUINTET]

thats it man thanks

[Crank]

Afralisp-link

Can someone please explain scripting to make a toolbar .dll with ResourceHacker? I just read the help-file, but just don't get it.

[whdjr]

Just as a side note, I had all my bitmaps in a dll and when I imported my menus into 2006 it didn't read my dll.  I had to put each bitmap in the shared folder where the menu was.

Go figure?

[Crank]

Did you remove .bmp of the icons in your .mnu or .mns file?

[TR]

Can someone please explain scripting to make a toolbar .dll with ResourceHacker? I just read the help-file, but just don't get it.

As long as your .dll and menu file have the same name you can store the bitmaps in a single resource dll and call it from the menu by the name in the dll. This makes distribution easy as you're only sending two files instead of the .mns and the X amount of .bmp files.

[Crank]

I know that, but with 'Resource Hacker' it's also possible to make the .dll with a script.
Because I've about 500 bitmaps, it seems faster to me to do it that way.

[Crank]

To add or update bitmap name:128 in MyProg.exe from NewImage.bmp

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ResHacker.exe -addoverwrite MyProg.exe, MyProgNew.exe, NewImage.bmp , bitmap,128,

So I think that in our case this would be something like:

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ResHacker.exe -addoverwrite MyMenu.dll, MyMenuNew.dll, NewImage.bmp , bitmap,128,
What I don't understand is the number 128...
Doesn't this have to be 0 ?