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 walkthroughs "Creating the Basic Layout for an end-user report designer", "Configuring the ActiveReports Toolbox" and "Configuring the Layout Toolbar."

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

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

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

Adding buttons to the Toolbar collection

To add buttons to the Toolbar collection

1. Click on tlbReport to select it.
2. Click on the ellipsis for the Buttons (collection) property.
3. Add 17 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 ImgReport.
4. Set the ImageList property for tlbReport to ImgReport.

Adding the icon images to the ImageList

To add the icon images

1. Click on ImgReport 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 ImgReport:

   

4. Click OK to continue.

Setting properties for the buttons in the Toolbox collection

To set properties for the buttons

1. Click on tlbReport 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	Style	ToolTipText
   Button1	(Empty string)	tbbLine8	Separator	(Empty string)
   Button2	ViewGrid	tbbViewGrid	Toggle	ViewGrid
   Button3	ReorderGroups	tbbReorderGroups	PushButton	ReorderGroups
   Button4	EditScript	tbbEditScript	PushButton	EditScript
   Button5	(Empty string)	tbbLine9	Separator	(Empty string)
   Button6	Bold	tbbBold	PushButton	Bold
   Button7	Italic	tbbItalic	PushButton	Italic
   Button8	Underline	tbbUnderline	PushButton	Underline
   Button9	(Empty string)	tbbLine10	Separator	(Empty string)
   Button10	AlignLeft	tbbAlignLeft	Toggle	AlignLeft
   Button11	Center	tbbCenter	Toggle	Center
   Button12	AlignRight	tbbAlignRight	Toggle	AlignRight
   Button13	Justify	tbbJustify	Toggle	Justify
   Button14	(Empty string)	tbbLine11	Separator	(Empty string)
   Button15	Bullets	tbbBullets	Toggle	Bullets
   Button16	DecreaseIndent	tbbDecreaseIndent	PushButton	DecreaseIndent
   Button17	IncreaseIndent	tbbIncreaseIndent	PushButton	IncreaseIndent

4. Click OK to continue.
5. Set the Appearance property for tlbReport to Flat.
6. Resize Panel1.

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