Office COM addin: How can you remember last position of icon using Extensibility2 with C++?

[Mary]

I've written a COM add-in for Office in C++ and everything works fine
using Extensibility2 (OnConnection, OnDisconnection, etc.).


But, when I move my icon, close Word, and then launch Word again, my
icon appears in the original location and not the new location I just
moved it to.


How can I get the new position of the icon? I assume this would be done
OnDisconnection (and I
assume that I would just save it to the registry) or is there another
way?

And, how do a set this new position OnConnection (or somewhere else)
for the icon?


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Also, if anyone knows of a good book that goes over this that would be
helpful.


Thank you.


-Mary

 

[- B@rney]

The CommandBarButton has a property called Index that gives it's position.
You can stash that away for future reference.

I want my button to be next to the default Save button, so I get a reference
to it (it's control[3]) and place my button at oSaveButton.Index + 1.

HTH

 

[- B@rney]

David Thielen (http://dave.thielen.com/) a regular contributor to this group
has written an article on this subject:
http://thielen.typepad.com/programming/2005/06/saverestore_too.html

Hop you don't mind Dave?