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Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:25:21 +0000

Author: Didi
Subject: 17344
Posted: 19 November 2013 at 4:25am

Hi,

how can Ichange the built-in parts of the ribbon? Ie. the Tooltip: “Customize Quick Acess Toolbar”, or itsmenu-members like: “&More Commands…”,”&Show Below the Ribbon” or “Mi&nimizethe Ribbon”?

Thank you

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : 1. Think with dialog you can...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:22:18 +0000

Author: Oleg
Subject: 17344
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 8:22am

1. Think with dialog you can only destroy and create it. Most applications just ask user restart application when user change language of GUI.

2. Yes, its not bug. If you have common Resources for Toolkit and application you indeed can manually call SetCaption.

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Thanks. Will give it another shot....

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:18:20 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 6:18am

Thanks. Will give it another shot. I obviously loaded the xml before calling EnableActions(). However, I still need help with a couple of questions.

1) How do you reload the dialog template of a property page (non-modal = always visible)?

2) AddGroup/AddTab do not make use of XTPResourceManager(). Are you sure this is not a bug? Adding controls works as expected. As it is now, I have to call SetCaption(lpszCaption) with my localized string - retrieved from XTPResourceManager()...

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Hi,You call EnableActions and...

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:44:40 +0000

Author: Oleg
Subject: 17344
Posted: 04 October 2010 at 2:44am

Hi,

You call EnableActions and then should load all actions from XML. Review ActionsSample's Load/save methods.

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : oleg wrote:Hi, XTPResourceManager()...

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:42:20 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 02 October 2010 at 9:42am

oleg wrote:

Hi,

XTPResourceManager() is used only for strings that are part of Toolkit resources - dialogs/string/etc.

CString::LoadString - is used for application defined resources - promts/catptions.

If you have localized dll add AfxSetResourceHandle to switch it.

For XML-language files this simply cannot be true. LoadString() keeps returning the English string, whereas XTPResourceManager()->LoadString() does indeed return the localized string. So my question remains... :(

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : pCommandBars->EnableActions...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:45:16 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 01 October 2010 at 11:45am

pCommandBars->EnableActions();

GetActions()->Add(ID_RIBBON_ITEM1);

...

GetActions()->Add(ID_RIBBON_ITEMN);

That does not help! :(

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Cool. Are actions applied for...

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:36:13 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 30 September 2010 at 6:36am

Cool. Are actions applied for tooltips too?

I suppose that to update whole application after language change, the following must be done:

1) Ribbon = nothing, thanks to actions.

2) Panes = explicit update of captions.

3) Pane dialogs = not sure. Dialog must be recreated?

4) Report controls = explicit update of columns/group row headers (and possibly tooltips).

Correct?

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Hi,1. Best way is to use Actions...

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:21:19 +0000

Author: Oleg
Subject: 17344
Posted: 30 September 2010 at 6:21am

Hi,

1. Best way is to use Actions for Controls. Check Actions sample - you can load german/english translation and all captions will be changed automatically.

2. was added for back compatibility for old XML propExchange. just always use 1 :)

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Got most of it working, but I...

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:14:34 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 29 September 2010 at 5:14pm

Got most of it working, but I do have two questions:

1) What is the best way to reload the ribbon captions/tooltips after setting locale?

2) What does CompactMode="1" in the xml mean?

Many thanks!

Ribbon not locale-aware! :( : Yes, but your scribble-sample...

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:48:03 +0000

Author: znakeeye
Subject: 17344
Posted: 29 September 2010 at 4:48am

Yes, but your scribble-sample makes use of xml-files for localization. Very neat!

Are you saying that localization of ribbon captions can be done simply by setting the locale using the same logic as in your Scribble sample? E.g. setlocale() and SetThreadLocale()?

Actually, it would be great if you added the Scribble-localization stuff to your Ribbon sample. If it works out of the box, then show it! It's a good sales point :)