Bob,

Maybe I should and that looks promising. Unfortunaetly I don't know how.

Based on what you have shown, I assume that there is another procedure
involved name LoadImage. What does it look like? Where does it go?

What I have is a Open Office Format file that I opened in Office 2007 Custom
UI Editor. I used the picture icon on the editor to load a custom picture
named "CustomImage" in the images folder. I can use this image on a control
if I use the attribute image="CustomImage"

I read on one of the many blogs that I have reviewed over the last couple
days that the getImage callback only accepts a valid office conrol Id or a
IPicture object. Does the LoadImage("CustomImage") process you suggest have
some conversion process to process the image to a IPicture object?

Thanks


Bob Phillips wrote:
Greg,

Shouldn't you be loading it?

Sub GetImage(Control As IRibbonControl, ByRef image)
Select Case Control.ID
Case "gallery1"
image = "ContentControlBuildingBlockGallery"
Case "gallery2"
Set image = LoadImage("CustomeImage" )
Case Else
'Do Nothing
End Select
End Sub



"Greg Maxey" wrote in
message ...
Hi,

First post here. I consider myself a dabbler not a programmer. So
if you can help, please help gently ;-)

Off an on for the past year or so I have been puzzling (sometimes
fretting)
over how to use the ribbon attribute getImage with a VBA callback to
dispaly
a custom image on a Word ribbon control. I have seen code examples
using C+,
.Net, VB, etc., which I don't have and don't know anything about,
that make
me believe that it can be done. When I try a VBA
callback like:

Sub GetImage(Control As IRibbonControl, ByRef image)
Select Case Control.ID
Case "gallery1"
image = "ContentControlBuildingBlockGallery" 'This works
Case "gallery2"
image = "CustomeImage" 'Where "CustomImage" is a png format
image file 'stored in the Open Office File format zip container
images folder. This doesn't work
Case Else
'Do Nothing
End Select
End Sub

Word throws an error stating "CustomImage" is not a valid office
control id.

The key it seems is a process that takes a *.png format image file
and converts it into a IPicture object that Word at least thinks is
a valid office
control id and then displays that image on the ribbon.

I have ordered Ken Puls book RibbonX hoping it will provide a
cookbook explanation of how this is done.

I am awaiting the arrival of the book, but I would certainly
appreciate learning how it is done.

Thanks.


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Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

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Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org