Satellites and Space(s)

Posted on March 4th, 2004 by Jeff

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.

Damn these aging eyes anyway. And the environment that doesn’t show me whitespace!

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2 Responses to “Satellites and Space(s)”

  1. Ondrej, on March 17th, 2004 at 5:25 am Said:

    Hey man,
    if you are developing for Office >= ver. 10 you can use new properies at buton interface! We have just solved damn big problem with clipboard this way.
    Take a look at this article:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;PL;286460

    Cheers,
    O.

  2. VisEmacs.NET » Menus, Toolbars, Buttons…oh my!, on February 9th, 2006 at 10:43 pm Said:

    [...] 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. First, here’s the undocked VisEmacs toolbar with the display mode set to Images and Text: [...]

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