Home > Tutorials > What is an Image Strip? If you're a
developper, you probably use toolbars in your applications. Each
command in a toolbars is represented by a button containing an
icon. When you create your toolbar, in addition to creating the
buttons, you must populate it with the images you want to
associate with each button. This is done through Image Lists
objects (read more about Image Lists). First you must create and
populate an Image List, then associate it to the toolbar. Note
that modern UI SDKs and developement libraries such as MFC
permit associating the images directly to the toolbars. The
Images Lists are created in background, so you don't have to
deal with this. To populate the toolbars, you can add each image
separately from an icon file (ICO format), but this is not
recommended. Instead, it is much easier to use a wide bitmap
containing several images placed side-by-side. That way, all the
images are added automatically in one single operation. This
image is called an "Image Strip" or "Bi