Hugo,

That works, however you as the developer are required to remember to add all of the controls and then add code to your form's Init method to set things up. By having the treeview, toolbar, etc... dynamically add the required imagelist at runtime, then I don't have to do any special coding other that what's already defined in my base class.

Also in a truelly 'object-oriented' approach, each control should behave correctly regardless of what other controls are on the form which is what I was trying to show with my example.

Kurt
>Kurt,
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>In the case of image lists for my treeviews I just drop the treeview(s) and the image list(s) and then in the init of the form do something like
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>thisform.oleTree.ImageList = thisform.oleImageList