Icons/bitmaps in menus

I want to add icons to my menus using VB6 and WinAPI. Does anyone know of an article or some source code on the web THAT ACTUALLY WORKS and works well? I have seen numerous examples, but they all pretty much suck. Some distort the images, some cause the icon to replace the caption, and so on. I know I could use a 3rd party control (e.g. DataDynamics' ActiveBar2 or Sheridan's ActiveToolBars Plus), but I want to know the code and do it myself. Any help is most appreciated.

By the way, why hasn't Microsoft supplied this ability to us humble VB programmers (yet)? SURELY I can't be the only one who has wanted to do this...right?

Thanks in advance,
Rippin

Try follow sample at:
http://vbcode.webhostme.com/en/click.asp?id=64

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By far the best (free) version of this that I've seen on the web has got to be the toolbar / menu controls downloadable from http://vbaccelerator.com

Best of all - you get all the source code too

Chris Eastwood

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