getting toolbar buttons onto a window

If I create a regular window ready to be a floating toolbar using WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, how do I then get toolbar buttons onto it?

I'm using C and the Win32 API.

Thanks

did you put in the window styles? such as WS_OVERLAPPEDWINOW or WS_SYSMENU on the toolwindow your declaring?

(im not sure what you mean)

Send a TB_INSERTBUTTON message to the toolbar window.

I'm not really sure where I'm going wrong here.

I'll post my relevant code sections on here in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

I'll use standard buttons to make it simpler

First of all, here is my simple button structure

Code:

TBBUTTON StdButtons [NUM_BUTTONS] =
{
/* iBitmap, idCommand, fsState, fsStyle, bReserved[2], dwData, iString */
    {STD_FILENEW,  ID_NEW,      TBSTATE_ENABLED, TBSTYLE_BUTTON, {0}, 0, 0},   
    {STD_FILEOPEN, ID_OPEN,     TBSTATE_ENABLED, BTNS_BUTTON,    {0}, 0, 0},    
    {STD_FILESAVE, ID_SAVE,     TBSTATE_INDETERMINATE, BTNS_BUTTON,    {0}, 0, 0},
};

Next I create my floating toolbar using WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW which successfully returns the handle hFloatTool.

Then I attempt send the images to the toolbar

Code:

/* Send the TB_BUTTONSTRUCTSIZE message, which is required for backward compatibility */
SendMessage(hFloatTool, TB_BUTTONSTRUCTSIZE, sizeof(TBBUTTON), 0);
 

/* Add standard images */
tbab.hInst = HINST_COMMCTRL;
tbab.nID = IDB_STD_SMALL_COLOR;
iImageOffset = (INT)SendMessage(hFloatTool, TB_ADDBITMAP, NUM_BUTTONS, (LPARAM)&tbab);
 

/* Add buttons to toolbar */
SendMessage(hFloatTool, TB_INSERTBUTTON, iImageOffset, (LPARAM) &StdButtons);
 

/* Show toolbar */
 ShowWindow(hFloatTool, SW_SHOW);

When run, I just get a blank floating toolbar.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Code:

SendMessage(hFloatTool, TB_INSERTBUTTON, iImageOffset, (LPARAM) &StdButtons);

should be

Code:

SendMessage(hFloatTool, TB_INSERTBUTTON, 0, (LPARAM) StdButtons[i]);

The image offset is determined by the iBitmap member of the TBBUTTON structure, are you sure you're filling that correctly?