About Outlook Com Add-In..."Resolved"

[Siu Yan]

Hi all,

Is there anybody know how to put your own icon / picture onto the command bar button for outlook com add-in (using VB 6)?

I've created a button and used it's picture property but it didn't work for me....

button1.picture = LoadPicture("xyz.ico")

Please help

[RobDog888]

For a menuitem Type of msoControlButton and .Style of
msoControlCustom and control of Office.CommandBarButton
the .Picture property is correct, but it is only supported on
Outlook 2003 (11.5608.5703) and above. If you haven't done an
Office Update from M$ then do that and that will fix the issue.

HTH

[RobDog888]

Edit... the .Picture property is available in XP. In Outlook 2003 you
need to update to the latest build because of a bug that will fail
the property.

[Siu Yan]

So you meant if I didn't update my outlook 2002 to 2003 or above. I can't use .Picture to show my icon?!

Do you have any other methods that can show an icon / picture on command bar button insteads of using .Picture?

With many thanks

[RobDog888]

As per my last post, if you have Outlook 2003 it needs to be
updated to the latest build release.

Can you post your code that creates the button?

[RobDog888]

I tried creating an AddIn for Outlook to test it out and the .Picture
method fails, but if the code is in Outlook VBA it will succeed.
Strange.

In my addin one way I got around it was to create a form that is
loaded with an image control with the picture already set to what
I want the menu item picture to be. Then after it was loaded I did
a "If Clipboard.GetFormat(vbCFBitmap) Then
cbNewMenuItem.PasteFace" to get the picture there.

HTH

[Siu Yan]

Friend Sub InitHandler(olApp As Outlook.Application, strProgID As String)
 
'Create message details button
    Set standardBar = golApp.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars("Standard")
    Set btnDetails = standardBar.Controls.Add(msoControlButton, , , , True)
    
    With btnDetails
        'Change the button image
        '.Picture = LoadPicture("messageDetails.bmp")
        .FaceId = 259
        .Caption = "Message Details"
        .Tag = "Message Details"
        .Style = msoButtonIconAndCaption
        .Visible = True
        .Enabled = False
    End With

At here I'm using .FacrID instead of .Picture because if I use .Picture, once the complier reaches .Picture that statment, it will jump to the end and won't go to .Caption, .Tag...etc.

I want to ask if I use your method, will a form show up on screen?

[Siu Yan]

It's strange....I just made my outlook add-in to .dll file and tried on outlook. The caption was showed on the screen just missed the icon. (I was using .Picture)

[RobDog888]

You can load the form but dont show it. As long as its loaded into
memory and not visible the image will be reference-able. The only
thing I found was that .Picture only works in the VBA of Outlook
and not in an addin. The .FaceId will work, but you can only use
pictures from Outlook menus or toolbars and not any custom
images. The .PasteFace method seems to work but you can not
assign a mask for the pasted image.

[Siu Yan]

Thanks.

Now, I'm using your way to get my own icon.