How to assign icon to a button in Outlook Add-in

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Hi,

I have wrtten Outlook COM Add-in. The attached code on startup creates the

button on outlook tool bar and assign the icon C:\local\cat.bmp. Could anyone

please tell me how could I make my Add-in independent of C:\local\cat.bmp? I

mean can I put picture somewhere in add-in itself so that while installing on

other machine it should have any problem if C:\local\cat.bmp is not there. OR

How could I use any system icon?

Set moCBMeow =

moApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars.Item("Standard").FindControl(, , "890",

False, True)

If TypeName(moCBMeow) = "Nothing" Then

Set moCBMeow =

moApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars.Item("Standard").Controls.Add(msoControlButton, , "890", , True)

End If

With moCBMeow

> BeginGroup = True

> Caption = "Copylink"

> DescriptionText = "Meow meow meow"

> Enabled = True

> OnAction = "!<CopyLinkTestingAddin.Connect>"

Clipboard.Clear

Clipboard.SetData LoadPicture("c:\local\cat.bmp")

> PasteFace

> Style = msoButtonIconAndCaption

> Tag = "890"

> ToolTipText = "Meow meow meow"

> Visible = True

End With

Thanks.

Paresh
 
Any image supplied for a CommandBarButton object must be 16x16x256 colors.

If put on the clipboard it must be a BMP, if you use Picture/Mask you supply

an IPictureDisp object.

To re-use an Outlook button image you get the CommandBarButton with the

image you want and use CopyFace to put it on the clipboard for PasteFace to

grab.

For any other image you can put it in the resource file for your addin

project and grab it from there, using whatever method is available in the

language you are using for loading image resources.

"paresh" <paresh> wrote in message

news:919B4392-FA0F-4123-AE65-112DF77D377B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,

> I have wrtten Outlook COM Add-in. The attached code on startup creates the
> button on outlook tool bar and assign the icon C:\local\cat.bmp. Could
> anyone
> please tell me how could I make my Add-in independent of C:\local\cat.bmp?
> I
> mean can I put picture somewhere in add-in itself so that while installing
> on
> other machine it should have any problem if C:\local\cat.bmp is not there.
> OR
> How could I use any system icon?

> Set moCBMeow =
> moApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars.Item("Standard").FindControl(, , "890",
> False, True)
> If TypeName(moCBMeow) = "Nothing" Then
> Set moCBMeow =
> moApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars.Item("Standard").Controls.Add(msoControlButton,
> , "890", , True)
> End If
> With moCBMeow
> .BeginGroup = True
> .Caption = "Copylink"
> .DescriptionText = "Meow meow meow"
> .Enabled = True
> .OnAction = "!<CopyLinkTestingAddin.Connect>"
> Clipboard.Clear
> Clipboard.SetData LoadPicture("c:\local\cat.bmp")
> .PasteFace
> .Style = msoButtonIconAndCaption
> .Tag = "890"
> .ToolTipText = "Meow meow meow"
> .Visible = True
> End With

> Thanks.
> Paresh
 
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