Re: Outlook CommandBarButton Picture & Mask

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If they would work at all they'd downgrade to 8-bit color, that's all a CommandBarButton can use as an image whether it's from an IPictureDisp object (Picture or Mask or AxHost) or the clipboard.

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"Nathan Hapke" <nhapke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Omo9HUmaHHA.2296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good to know. Though, interestingly when I was using the Clipboard approach, 24bpp images seemed to work.

Nathan

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