Custom images not appearing in Toolbar buttons

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Hi,
I'm trying to get my own images in Toolbar buttons but the buttons just have the text. I added the images as resources in the project. Any idea what I am missing? Here is the function (IDB_PNG1 and IDB_PNG2 are the imaged IDs):

HWND CreateToolbar(HWND hWndParent, HINSTANCE g_hInst) {
    // Declare and initialize local constants
    const int ImageListID = 0;
    const int numButtons = 2;
    const DWORD buttonStyles = BTNS_AUTOSIZE;
 

    // Create the toolbar
    HWND hWndToolbar = CreateWindowEx(0, TOOLBARCLASSNAME, NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | TBSTYLE_WRAPABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0, hWndParent, NULL, g_hInst, NULL);

    if (hWndToolbar == NULL)
        return NULL;

    // Create the image list
    HIMAGELIST hImageList = ImageList_Create(TB_HEIGHT, TB_WIDTH, ILC_COLOR32 | ILC_MASK, numButtons, 1);

    // Add your custom image to the image list
    ImageList_Add(hImageList, LoadBitmap(g_hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_PNG1)), NULL);
    ImageList_Add(hImageList, LoadBitmap(g_hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_PNG2)), NULL);


    // Associate the image list with the toolbar
    SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_SETIMAGELIST, (WPARAM)ImageListID, (LPARAM)hImageList);
 
    // Define the toolbar buttons
    TBBUTTON tbb[numButtons] = {
        { 0, IDB_PNG1, TBSTATE_ENABLED, buttonStyles, {0}, 0, (INT_PTR)L"Start" },
        { 1, IDB_PNG2, TBSTATE_ENABLED, buttonStyles, {0}, 0, (INT_PTR)L"Stop" }
    };

    // Add buttons
    SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_BUTTONSTRUCTSIZE, (WPARAM)sizeof(TBBUTTON), 0);
    SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_ADDBUTTONS, (WPARAM)numButtons, (LPARAM)&tbb);

    // Resize the toolbar and show it
    SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_AUTOSIZE, 0, 0);
    ShowWindow(hWndToolbar, TRUE);                 

    return hWndToolbar;
} // HWND CreateToolbar(HWND hWndParent)

Thanks for any advice.

[VictorN]

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Hi Victor, Sorry, was there an imagein your reply ? Clicking the image to open it gives a 404 error

[VictorN]

Hi Victor, Sorry, was there an imagein your reply ? Clicking the image to open it gives a 404 error

No don't worry! it was just an image linked to my profile. However this linking does not work anymore (since about 4...5 years)