bobsan42
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Hello every one.
Although I know a lot about coding I am not a programmer and I learn bit-by-bit on-the-go. So I actually realize that I know too little. And I need help in this case.
Several years ago I put together a workbook to help me with certain engineering tasks on a project. I had forgotten almost all about it until a friend called to ask for a copy of it some days ago.
Lucky him, I was able to send him an older version which didn't utilise CustomUI ribbon - all was forms and buttons so no problem.
But the newest version uses a custom ribbon. And a part of it are a few ribbon galleries loading WMF images from a folder on the hard drive. The images load without a problem in image controls on a form using LoadPicture.
However for loading them into the Galleries I had to use another method so I found a GDI+ solution online. And it worked without any problems on my previous 32-bit setup:
the code above is used by a ribbon callback to assign the images to the gallery elements:
When I opened the file on my current 64-bit O365 configuration I got an error about incompatible declarations. So I tried to modify the declarations like this:
The compiler stopped complaining, but I got nothing in return - all gallery elements remained without images.
I tried using WinAPIExcelp to figure it out myself but couldn't. My knowledge and understanging of API's is superficial, at best.
What I established is that this line:
returns lResult=2 so the next check for 0 evaluates to False.
I tried in break mode to manually change lResult to 0, but then this line:
terminates the function immediately.
Any help resolving this or and alternative solution will be appreciated. I would prefer to have a solution working on both 32 and 64 bit OS/Office.
Although I know a lot about coding I am not a programmer and I learn bit-by-bit on-the-go. So I actually realize that I know too little. And I need help in this case.
Several years ago I put together a workbook to help me with certain engineering tasks on a project. I had forgotten almost all about it until a friend called to ask for a copy of it some days ago.
Lucky him, I was able to send him an older version which didn't utilise CustomUI ribbon - all was forms and buttons so no problem.
But the newest version uses a custom ribbon. And a part of it are a few ribbon galleries loading WMF images from a folder on the hard drive. The images load without a problem in image controls on a form using LoadPicture.
However for loading them into the Galleries I had to use another method so I found a GDI+ solution online. And it worked without any problems on my previous 32-bit setup:
VBA Code:
'This module provides a LoadPictureGDI function, which can
'be used instead of VBA's LoadPicture, to load a wide variety
'of image types from disk - including png.
'
'The png format is used in Office 2007 to provide images that
'include an alpha channel for each pixel's transparency
'
'Author: Stephen Bullen
'Date: 31 October, 2006
'Email: stephen@oaltd.co.uk
Option Explicit
'Declare a UDT to store a GUID for the IPicture OLE Interface
Private Type GUID
Data1 As Long
Data2 As Integer
Data3 As Integer
Data4(0 To 7) As Byte
End Type
'Declare a UDT to store the bitmap information
Private Type PICTDESC
Size As Long
Type As Long
hPic As Long
hPal As Long
End Type
'Declare a UDT to store the GDI+ Startup information
Private Type GdiplusStartupInput
GdiplusVersion As Long
DebugEventCallback As Long
SuppressBackgroundThread As Long
SuppressExternalCodecs As Long
End Type
'Windows API calls into the GDI+ library
Private Declare Function GdiplusStartup Lib "GDIPlus" (token As Long, inputbuf As GdiplusStartupInput, Optional ByVal outputbuf As Long = 0) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipCreateBitmapFromFile Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal filename As Long, bitmap As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal bitmap As Long, hbmReturn As Long, ByVal background As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipDisposeImage Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal image As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdiplusShutdown Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal token As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" (PicDesc As PICTDESC, RefIID As GUID, ByVal fPictureOwnsHandle As Long, IPic As IPicture) As Long
' Procedure: LoadPictureGDI
' Purpose: Loads an image using GDI+
' Returns: The image as an IPicture Object
Public Function LoadPictureGDI(ByVal sFilename As String) As IPicture
Dim uGdiInput As GdiplusStartupInput
Dim hGdiPlus As Long
Dim lResult As Long
Dim hGdiImage As Long
Dim hBitmap As Long
'Initialize GDI+
uGdiInput.GdiplusVersion = 1
lResult = GdiplusStartup(hGdiPlus, uGdiInput)
If lResult = 0 Then
'Load the image
lResult = GdipCreateBitmapFromFile(StrPtr(sFilename), hGdiImage)
If lResult = 0 Then
'Create a bitmap handle from the GDI image
lResult = GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(hGdiImage, hBitmap, 0)
'Create the IPicture object from the bitmap handle
Set LoadPictureGDI = CreateIPicture(hBitmap)
'Tidy up
GdipDisposeImage hGdiImage
End If
'Shutdown GDI+
GdiplusShutdown hGdiPlus
End If
End Function
' Procedure: CreateIPicture
' Purpose: Converts a image handle into an IPicture object.
' Returns: The IPicture object
Private Function CreateIPicture(ByVal hPic As Long) As IPicture
Dim lResult As Long, uPicInfo As PICTDESC, IID_IDispatch As GUID, IPic As IPicture
'OLE Picture types
Const PICTYPE_BITMAP = 1
' Create the Interface GUID (for the IPicture interface)
With IID_IDispatch
.Data1 = &H7BF80980
.Data2 = &HBF32
.Data3 = &H101A
.Data4(0) = &H8B
.Data4(1) = &HBB
.Data4(2) = &H0
.Data4(3) = &HAA
.Data4(4) = &H0
.Data4(5) = &H30
.Data4(6) = &HC
.Data4(7) = &HAB
End With
' Fill uPicInfo with necessary parts.
With uPicInfo
.Size = Len(uPicInfo)
.Type = PICTYPE_BITMAP
.hPic = hPic
.hPal = 0
End With
' Create the Picture object.
lResult = OleCreatePictureIndirect(uPicInfo, IID_IDispatch, True, IPic)
' Return the new Picture object.
Set CreateIPicture = IPic
End Function
VBA Code:
Sub GalGetItemImage(control As IRibbonControl, index As Integer, ByRef returnedVal)
'This callback runs for every picture that is in the Img folder
'Fnum is the number of times it run this code line
On Error Resume Next
Select Case control.Tag
Case "Type1"
MyFiles = MyFiles1
Case "Type2"
MyFiles = MyFiles2
....
End Select
Set returnedVal = LoadPictureGDI(ThisWorkbook.Path & ImgPath & control.Tag & "\" & MyFiles(index + 1))
End Sub
When I opened the file on my current 64-bit O365 configuration I got an error about incompatible declarations. So I tried to modify the declarations like this:
VBA Code:
#If VBA7 Then
Private Declare PtrSafe Function GdiplusStartup Lib "GDIPlus" (token As Long, inputbuf As GdiplusStartupInput, Optional ByVal outputbuf As Long = 0) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function GdipCreateBitmapFromFile Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal filename As Long, bitmap As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal bitmap As Long, hbmReturn As Long, ByVal background As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function GdipDisposeImage Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal image As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function GdiplusShutdown Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal token As Long) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" (PicDesc As PICTDESC, RefIID As GUID, ByVal fPictureOwnsHandle As Long, IPic As IPicture) As Long
#Else
Private Declare Function GdiplusStartup Lib "GDIPlus" (token As Long, inputbuf As GdiplusStartupInput, Optional ByVal outputbuf As Long = 0) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipCreateBitmapFromFile Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal filename As Long, bitmap As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal bitmap As Long, hbmReturn As Long, ByVal background As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdipDisposeImage Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal image As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GdiplusShutdown Lib "GDIPlus" (ByVal token As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function OleCreatePictureIndirect Lib "olepro32.dll" (PicDesc As PICTDESC, RefIID As GUID, ByVal fPictureOwnsHandle As Long, IPic As IPicture) As Long
#End If
I tried using WinAPIExcelp to figure it out myself but couldn't. My knowledge and understanging of API's is superficial, at best.
What I established is that this line:
VBA Code:
lResult = GdiplusStartup(hGdiPlus, uGdiInput)
I tried in break mode to manually change lResult to 0, but then this line:
VBA Code:
lResult = GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap(hGdiImage, hBitmap, 0)
Any help resolving this or and alternative solution will be appreciated. I would prefer to have a solution working on both 32 and 64 bit OS/Office.