CustomUI: Clone of gallery "SlideLayoutGallery"

[Luca Brasi]

I have create a small add-in file that customizes the 2007 Office Ribbon. A
new tab is added which includes duplicates of some often used commands.

Amongst others, it includes a clone of the slide layout gallery control
(idMso="SlideLayoutGallery").

The problem: this clone does not get updated with the custom slide layouts
of the current presentation. Instead it always shows the custom layouts of
the presentation that was open the first time the gallery control was opened.

I already tried invalidating this control everytime the active presentation
window changes, but that did not help.

Any hint greatly appreciated
Luca

 

[Luca Brasi]

Steve, thank you for this info. You are right, if I add the whole group the
slide layout gallery gets updated. However, adding the whole group would kind
of ruin the logic of grouping of the controls on my new tab. But maybe there
is no way around that ...or does someone else have a different approach to be
able to re-use just the single slide layout gallery control?

Many thanks, Luca

 

[Luca Brasi]

Thanks Steve, I probably will do that.
Luca

Sounds like you may've found a bug.

If you can reduce this to a simple do-nothing sort of add-in with just the CustomUI
XML to add the gallery to an existing tab (and maybe again to a new tab to see if
that makes any difference), send it along to me at steve at-sign pptools dot com

I'll report it to MS.

If you send the add-in, make sure it's not password protected, and include the text
from our conversation here in the email so I remember what it's all about.






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