Statusbar Panel Image

[ukjock]

I have put some icons in to my statuspanel of my statusbar.

 

I want to call them though from an imagelist but I am not having much success I am trying the following code:

 

If StatusBar1.Panels(2).Text >= "12:00:00" Then StatusBar1.Panels(2).Icon = time.Images.Item(0)

 

But I get the error can not convert system.drawing.image can not be converted system.drawing.icon.

 

Any ideas on how I can get around this.

 

Any help appreciated

 

Regards

 

Chris

[bpayne111]

try using ctype to convert the icon to an image when you set the property.

 

i hope that helps some

brandon

[DiverDan]

I think the status bar only accepts icons, and dotnet views icons in an imagelist as...images not icons.

 

You can add the icons to your program as an embedded resource then load and access them in an array fairly easily.

 

Use "Add Existing Item" from the Project menu selection and change the icons build Action to Embedded Resource.

 

Globally declare statusIcons(1) as Icon

Then add Load_statusIcons() to your form's load event

 

   Private Sub Load_statusIcons()
       Dim CurrentAssembly As String = Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name.ToString
       Dim iconFile As IO.Stream
       Dim iconFileName() As String = {"icon1.ico", "icon2.ico"} 'etc.

       For i = 0 To statusIcons.GetUpperBound(0)
           iconFile = Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(CurrentAssembly + "." + iconFileName(i))
           statusIcons(i) = New Icon(iconFile)
       Next
   End Sub

 

statuspanel.Icon = statusIcons(0)

 

Hope that helps

Dan