After finishing the Lesson 6 Try It I decided to add 2 more features. When I changed the text color I changed the 'A' icon of the drop down button on the tool bar. That worked fine. I then tried to change the image of the background color drop down button on the tool bar. That did not work well. While working on the lesson I imported them from your downloaded code. Unfortunately they all are listed as 'System.Drawing.Bitmap'. I have the .bmp files listed in my Solution Explorer window and I can open them and see the icon. How do I change the icon on the tool bar to indicate the current background color?? I know it is redundant, but I just wanted to do it (I was playing and having fun). Thank you.

Keith Z.

Hi Keith,

I'm guessing you used code similar to the following to set the foreground color item's color:

To set the background button's image, use code similar to the following:

The My namespace is covered briefly in Lesson 36 so you're getting a bit ahead but in a nutshell My contains shortcuts to useful items including project resources. In this case, the project includes files named Blue.bmp, Green.bmp, etc. so by default it gets resources holding the corresponding images named Blue, Green, etc.

The line of code above sets the button's Image property to the Green resource so you see the corresponding bitmap.

That's an excellent way to learn this stuff! Think of changes you'd like to make and then try to make them.

Let me know if you have other questions or have trouble getting the images to work.

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My background icon is changing now, thank you. Yes, that is the code I used to change the text button icon.

Keith Z.