How to hide buttons at start-up?

If you are using a CommandBar  created in designer studio all you have to do is add all of the controls to the "Controls" window in the upper right corner.  Just drag all unwanted controls into the "Controls" window and they will be added to the "customization" menu.

If you creating the CommandBar via code you can do something similar in the next relese.  You would add all of the controls to the DesignerControls property (done in a CommandBar event called Customization) that would be displayed in the Customization menu.  Then you would only add the buttons needed at startup to the CommandBar.  With the current release the "Customization" menu is not functional with a CommandBar created via code.  So you would have to add all of the controls to the toolbar and  change the "Visible" property to true or false.  Below is an example that adds the "File" activemenubar control and has 2 controls not visible.

 Dim Control As CommandBarControl
   
    Set ControlFile = CommandBars.ActiveMenuBar.Controls.Add(xtpControlPopup, 0, "&File", -1,     False)

    With ControlFile.CommandBar.Controls
        Set Control = .Add(xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_NEW, "&New", -1, False)
       
        Set Control = .Add(xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_OPEN, "&Open", -1, False)
        Control.Visible = False

       .Add xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_SAVE, "&Save", -1, False

        Set Control =.Add( xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_CLOSE, "&Close", -1, False)
        Control.Visible = False
       
        Set Control = .Add(xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_PRINT, "&Print", -1, False)
    End With

Hope this helps.

SuperMario is right. I forgot that in the current release, controls added throgh code don't show up in the customize menu. The next release handles this very well.

 

You should be able to remove one button at a time by dragging the control off the toolbar into the application work area while in 'customize' mode.

I don't know why the check/uncheck buttons are disabled, but this is normal behaviour. It was maybe just a judgement call by CodeJock?

 

With great power comes great responsibility!

At least you have options. If you think it's too complicated for your users, then maybe don't allow them to customize.

In our case, we are only allowing system administrators to customize.

Also, although there is no official standard, the adding and removing of buttons with the codejock stuff acts pretty much like any other toolbar (vb, word, etc.)

Glad you got it working.

 

The "AddHiddenCommand" marks a control a used infrequently.  This makes the control not be displayed in the active menu bar popups until the arrow button is clicked to display all controls, both frequent and non-frequent.  This works just like the Windows XP start menu, it hides all programs that have not been used in a long time, then you need to hit the arrow button to display all programs.