This walkthrough illustrates how to set up the ActiveReports Toolbox to add to the basic layout of your end-user report designer. This walkthrough builds on the walkthrough "Creating the Basic Layout for an end-user report designer."

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

• Adding buttons to the Toolbox collection
• Adding an ImageList to add icons for the Toolbox
• Adding the icon images to the ImageList
• Setting properties for the buttons in the Toolbox collection

When you have completed this walkthrough, your layout for end-user report designer will look similar to the following.

Adding buttons to the Toolbox collection

To add buttons to the Toolbox collection

1. Click on tlbARToolbox to select it.
2. Click on the ellipsis for the Buttons (collection) property.
3. Add twelve buttons to the collection and click OK.

Adding an ImageList to add icons

To add an ImageList

1. Click at the top of frmDesigner to select it.
2. Click on the ImageList control in the toolbox and drag it onto the form.
3. Change the name of ImageList to ImgToolbox.
4. Set the ImageList property for tlbARToolbox to ImgToolbox.

Adding the icon images to the ImageList

To add the icon images

1. Click on ImgToolbox at the bottom of frmDesigner to select it.
2. Click on the ellipsis for the Images (collection) property.
3. Add the following icons to the ImgToolbox:

   

4. Click OK to continue.

Setting properties for the buttons in the Toolbox collection

To set properties for the buttons

1. Click on tlbARToolbox to select it.
2. Click on the ellipsis for the Buttons (collection) property.
3. For each button in the collection, make the following property changes and add the appropriate icons to the ImageIndex.

   Button #	Tag	Name	Text	ToolTipText
   toolBarButton1	Pointer	tbbPointer	Pointer	Pointer
   toolBarButton2	Label	tbbLabel	Label	Label
   toolBarButton3	TextBox	tbbTextBox	TextBox	TextBox
   toolBarButton4	CheckBox	tbbCheckBox	CheckBox	CheckBox
   toolBarButton5	Picture	tbbPicture	Picture	Picture
   toolBarButton6	Shape	tbbShape	Shape	Shape
   toolBarButton7	Line	tbbLine	Line	Line
   toolBarButton8	RichText	tbbRichTextBox	RichTextBox	RichTextBox
   toolBarButton9	Subreport	tbbSubreport	Subreport	Subreport
   toolBarButton10	PageBreak	tbbPageBreak	PageBreak	PageBreak
   toolBarButton11	Barcode	tbbBarcode	Barcode	Barcode
   toolBarButton12	Chart	tbbChart	Chart	Chart

4. Click OK to continue.
5. Set the Appearance property for tlbARToolbox to Flat.
6. Change the TextAlign property for tlbARToolbox to Right.
7. Resize Panel2 to fit one button on each line.

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