Adding Button as Icon and Text to toolbar in ArcMap

Question

How do you add a BaseCommand to a custom BaseToolbar as an icon and text. This is not an Add-In, it's the old way of doing buttons and toolbars even though it's version 10 of ArcMap.

Cheers

Answer 1

I didn't try the solution in the thread below but it looks correct to me: How to show caption and icon for basecommand

Depending on how your toolbar is setup, the check for Enabled() can happen frequently. You may want to add a boolean flag to keep the SetAsIconAndText() function from constantly running.

Answer 2

You need to create a toolbar class, IToolbarDef, to reference your BaseCommand icons to. Then create a resource bitmap and reference it in your BaseCommand class, see example below:

Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()


        MyBase.m_category = "Developer Samples"
        MyBase.m_caption = "Export Active View VisualBasic .NET"
        MyBase.m_message = "Exports the Active View using VisualBAsic .NET"
        MyBase.m_toolTip = "Export PDFs"
        MyBase.m_name = Me.GetType().Name + ""

        Try
            'load the bitmap resource (the icon for this tool).
            Dim bitmapResourceName As String = Me.GetType().Name + ".bmp"
            MyBase.m_bitmap = New Bitmap(Me.GetType(), bitmapResourceName)
        Catch ex As Exception
            System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(ex.Message, "Invalid Bitmap")
        End Try


    End Sub