Question:
If I create an application on a machine with Internet
Explorer 4 and deploy on machines without Internet
Explorer 4, they see no images in my Toolbar and/or
Coolbar. How can I get my images to be visible?
Answer:
The Imagelist streaming implementation and other features
of the Coolbar and Toolbar have changed between Internet
Explorer 3.02 and Internet Explorer 4. Applications using
Win32 common controls developed under Internet Explorer
4.0 may not work correctly under Internet Explorer 3.02
(and vice-versa).
The way to work around the imagelist streaming problem is
to not stream the images to the .dfm. Instead, place the
bitmaps in a resource file, then load them into the
imagelist at runtime using the following code:
procedure LoadResourcedBMP(ID: string; Images: TImageList);
var
B: TBitmap;
begin
B := TBitmap.Create;
try
B.LoadFromResourceName(hInstance, ID);
Images.AddMasked(B, B.TransparentColor);
finally
B.Free;
end;
end;