Im trying to get my toolbar to work, with an imagelist. The images are png's and are individual So i was adding them in the ImageList in succession. But it wasnt working, Here is the code to add the Image to the ImageList HIMAGELIST CreateToolBarImages( HINSTANCE hInst) { HIMAGELIST v_ImageList = NULL; //IMAGE_LIST v_Img; HICON hIcon; HBITMAP hBit; COLORMAP cMap; COLORREF fromColor = RGB( 0,0,0 ); InitCommonControls(); v_ImageList = ImageList_Create( 32,32, ILC_MASK, 1,1 ); cMap.from = fromColor; cMap.to = ::GetSysColor ( COLOR_BTNFACE ); hBit = CreateMappedBitmap( hInst, IDB_CONSOLE, 0, &cMap, 1 ); //hBit = LoadBitmap( hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_CONSOLE) ); consoleImg = ImageList_Add( v_ImageList, hBit, 0 ); if( consoleImg == -1 ) return NULL; DeleteObject( hBit ); Then i create The ToolBar, but it fails at the Image function. HWND CreateToolBarButton( HWND hWndParent ) { const int ImageID = 0; const int numB = 1; COLORREF iColor; HWND hToolBar = CreateWindowEx( 0, TOOLBARCLASSNAME, NULL, WS_CHILD |TBSTYLE_LIST |TBSTYLE_FLAT | WS_VISIBLE, 0,0,0,0, hWndParent, NULL, g_hInst, NULL ); if( hToolBar == NULL ) return NULL; HIMAGELIST ImgList = CreateToolBarImages ( g_hInst); if( ImgList == NULL ) MessageBox( hWndParent, L"No Tool Images", L"BOB", MB_OK ); return NULL; Is there something im missing? or not doing?