How To Add an Icon to a Button and maybe a balloon tip

[Andy]

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone help ?

I want to add one icon (bmp, or jpg etc) to a button eg. BUTTON_1.

I have seen the example that's included with Ebasic but the bitmap icons are all together as one file and loaded in turn as an array - I don't want to do that, just something simple as above.

Not necessary but as an extra, does anyone know how I can show a balloon tip when you point to the button ?

[mrainey]

Have a look at the user guide under General Programming > Using Resources.  Then, search the Emergence forum for "@CTLBTNBITMAP" and "tooltip" and I think you'll find some examples.

[Andy]

Thanks very much for replying, have done a search but have only found how to make a button show a bitmap but not both bitmap and some text as well - I will keep looking but maybe it's not possible ?

Thanks again,
Andy.

[mrainey]

Maybe the example program "rgn_button_test.eba" that comes with EB will give you some ideas for combining a bitmap with text on a button.

[Andy]

Great, thanks for that - it looks at first sight as two buttons sharing the same location.
Will give it a go and let everyone know if I think it's suitable

Thanks again,
Andy.

[LarryMc]

Andy,

another possibility is to purchase the Custom Button Library and Designer.

Larry