Connecting ideas to code
Like the contestants on last night’s Apprentice, I’m not an art critic, nor an artist. However I did make new icons for the toolbar since that I solved the custom bitmap problem.
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Finally! I have custom bitmaps on my toolbar and menu items. I’ve been squinting at my monitor for days trying to solve this and other issues… it turns out the problem was because I had the value of SatelliteDLLPath set to ” [TARGETDIR]“. Did you see the leading space? I didn’t for about a week. [...]
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You never know what a little code reorganization will do. A little refactoring here, a little bit of paranoia there and — voila! — there’s the VisEmacs menu in the Tools menu. And here I had given that up for dead.
Now if I could only figure out why my satellite dll won’t load….
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I must be some special kinda stoopid. It just *cant* be this hard to add a custom bitmap to a toolbar, right? Can it?
From the AddNamedCommand docs:
MSOButton
Required. Indicates whether the named command’s button picture is an Office picture. True = button.
Bitmap
Optional. The ID of a bitmap to display on the button.
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Today’s rant comes courtesy of the sparsely documented VS.NET object model. Do you know the hoops-o-real-fiyah one must leap through to put your own bitmap on a toolbar instead of that sickly smiley face? Satellite dlls?! Hints and docs buried in samples? Only for VB and C#??
Who writes this stuff? Anyone?
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