Changing the Ribb&#111;n Bar Font

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Topic: Changing the Ribbon Bar Font
Posted: 20 December 2007 at 5:56pm

I'm trying to change the ribbon bar font and only getting partially there. Here's a screenshot of what I have so far with the font changed to wingdings to make the changes stand out:

The text on the buttons is updating, but the tab and group text does not do so. Here is how I got this far.

if (CFont* pFontToUse = rbfd.GetFont()) {

LOGFONT lfToUse = {0};

if (int nRC = pFontToUse->GetLogFont(&lfToUse)){

if (CXTPPaintManager* pPaintManager = pRibbonBar->GetPaintManager()){

pPaintManager->SetCommandBarsFontIndirect(&lfToUse);

//pPaintManager->UpdateFonts(); doesn't seem necessary

Any suggestions on getting the rest of the way? Thanks!

--Mike

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Posted: 21 December 2007 at 1:02am

Hi,

try

CXTPRibbonPaintManager* pPaintManager = (CXTPRibbonPaintManager*)pRibbonBar->GetPaintManager()){

pPaintManager->m_fontGroupCaption.SetCustomFont(...);

pPaintManager->GetTabPaintManager()->SetFontIndirect(..);

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Posted: 21 December 2007 at 10:48am

I am assuming that you mean CXTPRibbonTheme rather than CXTPRibbonPaintManager. The call to m_fontGroupCaption.SetCustomFont seems to work fine. The call to GetTabPaintManager()->SetFontIndirect does work on the tab text, but it seems to have a bad side effect. It causes the text on the buttons and groups to rotate 90 degrees clockwise. Here are snapshots with and without that call:

Any further suggestions?

--Mike

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Posted: 21 December 2007 at 5:19pm

Ah, I figured out what was going on. The SetFontIndirect call actually overwrites data in the LOGFONT structure that I pass in while it is fiddling with its internally held vertical font. When I pass that along to the next guy, it causes the text to rotate.

While I consider this a corruption of my data, and a little bit rude, I have worked around this by just making three copies of the LOGFONT and passing a unique one to each API.

--Mike

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Posted: 25 April 2008 at 10:19am

One last followup for posterity. I was having trouble with characters getting clipped until I added a call to pPaintManager->RefreshMetrics(); after the call to pPaintManager->SetCommandBarsFontIndirect(). That is, the tails on characters like y or g were getting clipped when I had multiline text on large buttons, and the tops of some Japanese characters were getting clipped in that locale.

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Posted: 11 December 2008 at 5:40pm

I just upgraded from 12.0.1 to 12.1.1, and the code generated from this thread won't compile:

LOGFONT lfDialogFont = ...

            // The Codejock calls below to change the font will alter the font structure
            // passed to them, so make a fresh copy of the font data for each call.
            LOGFONT lfTab = lfDialogFont;
            LOGFONT lfGroup = lfDialogFont;
            LOGFONT lfButtons = lfDialogFont;

// tab captions (per Oleg)
pPaintManager->GetTabPaintManager()->SetFontIndirect(&lfTab);

// group captions (per Oleg)
pPaintManager->m_fontGroupCaption.SetCustomFont(&lfGroup);

// ribbon text (buttons, QAT, etc)
pPaintManager->SetCommandBarsFontIndirect(&lfButtons);

// tell Codejock about the changes [PR5917116]
pPaintManager->RefreshMetrics();

I get these errors:

    ribbon.cpp(2553) : error C2039: 'GetTabPaintManager' : is not a member of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
        source\ribbon\xtpribbontheme.h(47) : see declaration of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
    ribbon.cpp(2553) : error C2227: left of '->SetFontIndirect' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
    ribbon.cpp(2556) : error C2039: 'm_fontGroupCaption' : is not a member of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
        source\ribbon\xtpribbontheme.h(47) : see declaration of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
    ribbon.cpp(2556) : error C2228: left of '.SetCustomFont' must have class/struct/union
    ribbon.cpp(11375) : error C2039: 'GetTabPaintManager' : is not a member of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
        source\ribbon\xtpribbontheme.h(47) : see declaration of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
    ribbon.cpp(11375) : error C2227: left of '->GetFont' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
    ribbon.cpp(11390) : error C2039: 'm_fontGroupCaption' : is not a member of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
        source\ribbon\xtpribbontheme.h(47) : see declaration of 'CXTPRibbonTheme'
    ribbon.cpp(11390) : error C2228: left of '.SetCustomFont' must have class/struct/union

What's up with that? Is there some other way to change the fonts now?

--Mike

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Posted: 12 December 2008 at 1:12am

Hi,

Yes, sorry CXTPRibbonPaintTheme and CXTPRibbonPaintMaanger are different classes now.

Please change to

pPaintManager->GetRibbonPaintManager()->GetTabPaintManager()->SetFontIndirect

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Posted: 12 December 2008 at 8:39am

OK, thanks, that works. One note, though: I normally only include Source\XTToolkitPro.h, but doing that only got me a forward declaration of CXTPRibbonPaintManager. I had to include Ribbon\XTPRibbonPaintManager.h to get the full declaration I needed to access members of the class. Is that to be expected? Is this a public class?

--Mike

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