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Hi,
within a project, we are updating an existing (old) MFC-based app. Decision was to use Prof-UIS framework for the new version. The old uses the MFC "all button images in one bitmap" approach for a number of toolbars. I’ve now noticed that CExtToolControlBar::SetButtonInfo come with only three parameters (instead of 4 in MFC’s CToolBar::SetButtonInfo). So, it seems, I cannot assign an iImage when setting the nID in Prof-UIS. Am I right or just missing something? Help appreciated.

Best regards,

Ulrich

The MFC toolbar is based on image lists. So each button in an MFC toolbar is assigned an image index.

The Prof-UIS toolbar operates with the global command manager component and each button knows only its command identifier value. To get additional information about this command, the button requests g_CmdManager and gets a pointer to the corresponding CExtCmdItem object, which completely describes the command. The article Getting started with Prof-UIS may be useful for you as well as the basic samples provided with the library (SDI, SDIDOCVIEW, MDI, and MDIDOCVIEW). First of all, pay attention to the CMainFrame::OnCreate method in the library samples. And do not hesitate to contact us in this forum or via support@fossware.com.

Thank you very much!
Ulrich