Need help customizing QAT to include add-in controls

[Dave]

My addin contains an extensive set of ribbon tabs and controls. It's
useful for users to be able to put certain of those controls on the
QAT. The problem is, they don't persist - when the application shuts
down and is then restarted, those controls are no longer on the QAT.

So question 1 is: Is there an easy way to get the controls added to
the QAT by the user to stay there?

Assuming there's not, then I have some questions about managing the
QAT from VBA.

Question 2: Can I deal with the enabling/disabling of those controls
just as I do in the Ribbon - with callbacks?

And lastly, Question 3: It looks like, from what I've been able to
find online, that my addin would have to set
"startFromScratch="true"" Is that something that's done in VBA or in
the QAT xml? And if I do that, do I lose all the normal Powerpoint
Ribbon tabs?

Thanks.

 

[Dave]

My addin contains an extensive set of ribbon tabs and controls.  It's
useful for users to be able to put certain of those controls on theQAT.  The problem is, they don'tpersist- when the application shuts
down and is then restarted, those controls are no longer on theQAT.

So question 1 is: Is there an easy way to get the controls added to
theQATby the user to stay there?

Assuming there's not, then I have some questions about managing theQATfromVBA.

Question 2:  Can I deal with the enabling/disabling of those controls
just as I do in the Ribbon - with callbacks?

And lastly, Question 3:  It looks like, from what I've been able to
find online, that my addin would have to set
"startFromScratch="true""  Is that something that's done in VBA or in
theQATxml?  And if I do that, do I lose all the normal Powerpoint
Ribbon tabs?

Thanks.

Question 1: I stand corrected - I think those controls I added to the
QAT *do* persist - I think they disappeared across a reinstall of the
addin - not too sure about that, though. At any rate, thye're right
there this morning - just like I want 'em.

Questions 2/3: I guess my answer to Q1 makes 2 and 3 moot.