Assigning shortcuts to Custom toolbar buttons

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

"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@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143814115.459478.229510@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> 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
>

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

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@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1144050429.962882.109390@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> 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
>