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exposing an imagelist property in my custom control

hello experts... i'm trying to expose a propery to attach an imagelist to my custom control... but i dont see the property... and i was thinking maybe somehow i have to do the "custom" property like a listview control uses to attach the imagelist. can someone explain how i can attach an imagelist to my control?

or better yet, if you can tell me how i can create an instance of an imagelist without having to include comctl32.ocx in my custom control project. comctl32 will be included in the project that i plan to use the custom control in...

i'm trying this to expose the imagelist property...
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dim m_ImageList as object
Public Property Get ImageList() As Object
ImageList = m_ImageList
End Property
Public Property Let ImageList(ByVal NewImageList As Object)
Set m_ImageList = NewImageList
End Property
Public Property Set ImageList(ByVal NewImageList As Object)
Set m_ImageList = NewImageList
End Property
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Dana Seaman

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Dana Seaman

By the way...If you want to create the Imagelist in your control there is code at VbAccelerator to do this. The dependency is ComCtl32.Dll which is present in all Windows OS and does not need to be included in your deployment package. There is a great example on how to implement this at PSC. You initialise the ImageList using "InitializeImageListSmall" and supply a bitmap strip using "ImageListSmall_AddBitmap". Link http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=56021&lngWId=1. Also see VbAccelerator.com for lighweight ImageList classes.

RobK6364

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thanks, got it workin : )