Article Discussion: Writing an MS Word Addin

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Hello there,



Question is: will be faster if I do it in C++ instead of VBA?

I've succesfully completed the previous article on an Outlook add-in with no problems. However, at the early stage of writing this add-in, where i check whether Word can see my addin, it can't. I've checked the registry using regedit, and the correct details for this add-in are there, right next to an add-in that *does* show up in word (a default one, something todo with web pages). even when i point word straight to the .dll in my vc++6 project folder, it won't see it.
any ideas? the code is as per the article, without filling in any member functions for the add-in, or putting in any buttons etc. I'm using word 2000.
thanks for any help!

I tryed to use Microsoft's comaddin.exe, but it works for first document in Word but doesn't work with new windows opened. I hoped that it is no problem for sample in this article. But have same problem as in post above it doesn't work at all. Can anybody help?

my code looks like that:

CComQIPtr<_Document> test;
m_spApp->get_ActiveDocument(&test);
struct MSWORD::Shapes *shapetest;
test->get_Shapes(&shapetest);

this works fine. but when i try to take a single shape nothing happens.

struct MSWORD::Shape *myshape;
struct tagVARIANT tagv;

VariantInit(&tagv);
tagv.dblVal = 1;
shapetest->Item(&tagv, &myshape);


does anyone can explain me, how i can do this? i have seen an example in VBA with doc.Shapes[1], to access the first shape. but this doesn't work in visual c++.

Hi I am currently working on a Word add-in but I haven't any C++ compiler so I would be very interested if someone can send me the compiled universal add-in from this article with the sample .dot where I could build my code from VBA.

My email is herve.cadieu@noos.fr

thanks much in advance

see my work on
http://mapage.noos.fr/grapho-lock/index_fichiers/frame.htm

if any one wants to join / team u^p for devloppement you are more than welcome !
Best regards
Herve Cadieu
Paris France