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Topic: Questions about Icons

Posted By: Number8
Subject: Questions about Icons
Date Posted: 03 September 2008 at 7:46am

Hello,

Using SuitePro ActiveX 12.0.1.

Could someone point me to the area in the documentation that describes how to get icons to appear on toolbar buttons?

I am trying to load the icons from a bitmap and assign them to toolbar buttons like this:

     _bstr_t bstrName ="C:\\Program Files\\Codejock Software\\ActiveX\\SuitePro ActiveX 12.0.1\\Samples\\CommandBars\\C#.NET\\RibbonSample\\res\\LargeIcons.bmp";

     int cmds[18];

     cmds[0] = M_FILE_NEW;
     cmds[1] = 2;
     /* etc */

     IImageManagerIconsPtr pIcons = pCommandBars->GetIcons();

     pIcons->LoadBitmap(bstrName, cmds, xtpImageNormal);

     ICommandBarActionsPtr pActions = pCommandBars->GetActions();

     pControls = pCommandBar->GetControls();

     pAction = pActions->Add(M_FILE_NEW, _bstr_t("&New"), _bstr_t("Create a new document"), _bstr_t("Create a new document"), _bstr_t("File"));
     pAction->IconId = M_FILE_NEW;
     pControls->Add(xtpControlButton, M_FILE_NEW, "");

However, no icons appear on the toolbars.
What am I doing wrong?

I searched the samples for a use of LoadBitmap() or IconId in a .cpp file, but didn't find any.
I tried to follow the use of LoadBitmap() as used in some .cs files, but those uses of LoadBitmap() are for controls other than a CommandBar.

Thanks for any pointers...

UPDATE:
I tried explicitly setting the style:
     pControl = pControls->Add(xtpControlButton, M_FILE_NEW, "");
     pControl->PutDescriptionText(_bstr_t("Create a new document"));
     pControl->PutStyle(xtpButtonIcon);
Still no icon...

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 12.1.0
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 3
Language: C / C++

Replies:

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:25am

CommandBars.Icons = ImageManager.Icons;

Posted By: Number8
Date Posted: 04 September 2008 at 10:06am

SuperMario wrote:

CommandBars.Icons = ImageManager.Icons;

I'm confused: _DCommandBars->GetIcons() returns a pointer to an ImageManagerIcons object. ImageManagerIcons doesn't have an Icons property.

struct __declspec(uuid("1616dc35-b997-432b-ab4f-439341a769e5"))
_DCommandBars : IDispatch
{
    /* snip */    __declspec(property(get=GetIcons,put=PutIcons))
    IImageManagerIconsPtr Icons;
    /* snip */
};
IImageManagerIcons : IDispatch
{
    /* snip */
    HRESULT LoadBitmap (
        _bstr_t Path,
        const _variant_t & Commands,
        enum XTPImageState imageState );
    /* snip */
];

After calling LoadBitmap() on the ImageManagerIcons object, is there another step to adding it back to the CommandBars object?
Thanks for the reply.

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 12.1.0
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 3
Language: C / C++

Posted By: Number8
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 9:17am

Tech support provided the answer.

Need to pass a SafeArray that can be cast to Variant to LoadBitmap().

     CComSafeArray<int> safeCommands(_countof(cmds));
     for (int i = 0; i < _countof(cmds); ++i) {
          safeCommands.SetAt(i, cmds);
     }

     HRESULT hr = pIcons->LoadBitmap(bstrName, CComVariant((LPSAFEARRAY)safeCommands), xtpImageNormal);

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 12.1.0
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 3
Language: C / C++