Higher color depth for MFC toolbar icons?

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Published on 2008-11-04T11:16:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 5:32 UTC
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Hi all,

I was wondering how to make a toolbar in MFC that used 24bit or 256 colour bitmaps rather than the horrible 16 colour ones.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some simple code?

Thanks

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