Changing the background image of a bar item

Hi, Is it possible to change the default background of a baritem with a image of user defined, if I want to display a user defined image, what will be the right procedure, I tried using event DrawToolbarItem and displayed the image but default behaviour of highlighting and other baritem events are not working! Any idea how to have both.... Thanks Warm Regards G.Gokul Raj.

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