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Hi,

I need to display a bitmap and not an icon on the button - I could not find any support for this in the class’s interface.
How can this be done?

Thanks.

You can use the CExtBitmap class to load a bitmap from a file or a resource and then generate an icon from it. Here are the steps to achieve this:

1) Load a bitmap using CExtBitmap::LoadBMP_File() or CExtBitmap::LoadBMP_Resource();
2) Make it 32-bit compatible using CExtBitmap::Make32();
3) Use CExtBitmap::AlphaColor() method to make all pixels of a particular color transparent;
4) Generate an HICON handle from this bitmap using CExtBitmap::CreateHICON();
5) To assign the icon to a button (the CExtButton class), use the CExtButton::SetIcon() method.

Thanks,

That solved the problem.

Where can i find documentation of the AlphaColor function? what are the parameters?

This method sets the alpha channel value for all pixels of the specified color. You can find the description of this method in the Prof-UIS 2.60 Help.