Creating a Bitmap

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The buttons on the toolbar display a bitmap that can be created with any drawing tool that supports the BMP file format, e.g. MS Paint.

Guidelines for creating bitmaps are:

· The bitmap is to contain 16 by 16 pixels.

 

· If your bitmap has a background color, draw a box around the outside edge of the bitmap and give it a color that is different to the background color. This ensures that the background color is displayed in the toolbar. The outside edge is not displayed.

 

· Save the bitmap in the BMP file format, in the USD8\BITMAPS directory.

NOTE:

The bitmap must be delivered with the application for the runtime environment.

As an example, take the bitmap shown here, called MH.BMP