topic Re: Add image icon to RibbonButton in .NET Forum

Add image icon to RibbonButton

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:17:56 GMT

I am unsure how to get an image icon into a button

I know the buttons have the following tags:

button.ShowText = true;

button.Image = ??

I am just unsure what to set the Image tag to and where to save the image

Re: Add image icon to RibbonButton

Paulio — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:45:02 GMT

The ribbon button should be a BitmapImage and you can add the image as a resource to your project.

I've got a LoadImage function something like this:

Private Shared Function LoadImage(imageToLoad As String) As BitmapImage
    Dim image2 As BitmapImage
    Dim image As New BitmapImage()
    Try
        Dim bitmap As Bitmap = My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(imageToLoad)
        Dim stream As New MemoryStream()
        bitmap.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Png)
        image.BeginInit()
        image.StreamSource = stream
        image.EndInit()
        image2 = image
    Catch generatedExceptionName As Exception
        image2 = Nothing
    End Try
    Return image2
End Function

Then you can just set your button image like this:

button.image=LoadImage(your-image-name)

I can't remember why I've got image and image2 (it was a very long time ago which is why it's in VB and I haven't looked at it for years) but it works.

HTH

Re: Add image icon to RibbonButton

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:43:17 GMT

Thank you, I am looking for a solution in c#, hopefully someone can help

Re: Add image icon to RibbonButton

gleeuwdrent — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 05:29:46 GMT

I embed the image files as Embedded Resource to my project, and then using this method to load them:

public static BitmapImage LoadImage(string imageName, int Height, int Width) { BitmapImage image = new BitmapImage(); image.BeginInit(); image.StreamSource = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(imageName); image.DecodePixelHeight = Height; image.DecodePixelWidth = Width; image.EndInit(); return image; }

And attaching the image to the button as follows:

button.Image = LoadImage($"{<yourProjectName>}.<yourSubfolderContainingTheImages>." + iconName + ".ico", 16, 16); button.LargeImage = LoadImage($"{<yourProjectName>}.<yourSubfolderContainingTheImages>." + iconName + ".ico", 32, 32);