Phillippe Allen
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Joined: 2005-11-07
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We are having reports from some of our test users that when they do a brand new install of our addins, the toolbars are not always automatically appearing in Word. Instead, they have to go to Tools->Customise to get the toolbar to appear. Obviously we would like this to occur automatically for the user. Is there some property we need to set to ensure this happens. The toolbars are of type adxMsoBarFloating.
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Dmitry Kostochko
Add-in Express team
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Joined: 2004-04-05
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Hi Phil,
I have never faced such a strange behavior of toolbars. Please give me more information about the user reports. What Office versions do they have installed? What service packs for Office do they have? Does this happen immediatelly after installing the add-in or in a while? Did they have this add-in installed before or was it the first installation? Is your add-in registered for all PC users or for a current user only? What ADX version do you use?
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Phillippe Allen
Posts: 30
Joined: 2005-11-07
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Dmitry
At the moment it appears to be isolated to the one user. She is however our most experienced tester so I'm unwilling to discount her observation. What is happening is that when our addins were first installed on her clean machine (ie had just been re-imaged), they didnt appear in Word when it was opened. She had to customise the toolbars to make the addins's toolbar visible (ie they were installed but for some reason didnt automatically appear floating). Once the toolbar is made visible, it behaves as expected. Unfortunately we have been unable to reproduce this error on any other machines at the moment.
The addins were produiced with ADX2.3 in conjunction with Delphi V5.0.
The machine in question is Windows XP running Office 2003
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Dmitry Kostochko
Add-in Express team
Posts: 2880
Joined: 2004-04-05
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Hi Phil,
I have just discussed the issue with our AbleBits.com support team and one of them recalled a similar issue. Our user instinctively closed a small new floating command bar immediately after installing the add-in and opening a host application (Excel in our case). Can it be the case?
I would recommend you using the adxMsoBarTop instead of adxMsoBarFloating and gather more information from your testers.
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