Assigning shortcuts to Custom toolbar buttons "Laks" <slnarasimhan[ at ]gmail.com> 3/31/2006 2:08:35 PM Hi, I want to add a toolbar button and assign a short cut to this button. I am using .NET Extensibility/C# to do this. I have been able to add this button and I have set the caption with the standard windows '&' and am able to access the button with Alt combination accelerators. However, I also noticed that the CommandBarButton has a ShortCutText property and after googling this up a bit, I found that this would only work for those buttons that have an associated OnAction. My add-in is a 'Load On Demand' add-in and thus my OnAction property would read something like button.OnAction = "!<MyAddIn.Connect"; And after this, I have button.ShortCutText="Ctrl+G"; But after the add-in loads, Ctrl+G does not cause anything. Setting the ShortCutText property does not seem to have made any difference. Am I doing anything wrong here? And one more question is that if I assign already existing Outlook shortcuts (like ctrl+n for example) to my button, what would happen? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, Laks

Re: Assigning shortcuts to Custom toolbar buttons "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp[ at ]outlookcode.com> 3/31/2006 10:10:37 PM "Text" is the key word here. All that property does is add text to the visible caption. Outlook custom toolbar buttons support only Alt+ accelerators. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Laks" <slnarasimhan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143814115.459478.229510[ at ]e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I want to add a toolbar button and assign a short cut to this button. I > am using .NET Extensibility/C# to do this. I have been able to add this > button and I have set the caption with the standard windows '&' and am > able to access the button with Alt combination accelerators. However, I > also noticed that the CommandBarButton has a ShortCutText property and > after googling this up a bit, I found that this would only work for > those buttons that have an associated OnAction. My add-in is a 'Load On > Demand' add-in and thus my OnAction property would read something like > > button.OnAction = "!<MyAddIn.Connect"; > > And after this, I have > > button.ShortCutText="Ctrl+G"; > > But after the add-in loads, Ctrl+G does not cause anything. Setting the > ShortCutText property does not seem to have made any difference. Am I > doing anything wrong here? > > And one more question is that if I assign already existing Outlook > shortcuts (like ctrl+n for example) to my button, what would happen? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Laks >

Re: Assigning shortcuts to Custom toolbar buttons "Laks" <slnarasimhan[ at ]gmail.com> 4/3/2006 7:47:10 AM Thanks very much Sue. Is there anyway in which I can add a control to a Menu or somewhere and associate a workable shortcut to it? I need to add a functionality to Outlook that moves the selected mail(s) to a specified folder on using a short cut. (Like Ctrl+D moves the items to deleted items folder). I intially thought adding a custom toolbar button, assigning a short cut to it and hiding it would work. But now that I cannot add a short cut to this button, is there any other way of achieving this? Thanks and Regards, Laks

Re: Assigning shortcuts to Custom toolbar buttons "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp[ at ]outlookcode.com> 4/3/2006 12:31:02 PM You would need to use a toobar button with an Alt+ accelerator. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Laks" <slnarasimhan[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1144050429.962882.109390[ at ]g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Thanks very much Sue. > Is there anyway in which I can add a control to a Menu or somewhere and > associate a workable shortcut to it? > > I need to add a functionality to Outlook that moves the selected > mail(s) to a specified folder on using a short cut. (Like Ctrl+D moves > the items to deleted items folder). I intially thought adding a custom > toolbar button, assigning a short cut to it and hiding it would work. > But now that I cannot add a short cut to this button, is there any > other way of achieving this? > > Thanks and Regards, > Laks >