Codejock Developer Community : Saving Quick Access Toolbar

Author: Dan
Subject: 22328
Posted: 17 June 2014 at 6:51am

Hi,

I'm trying to load/save user's custom changes to the Quick Access Toolbar using Toolkit Pro v16.3.1.

I originally thought that something like this would work in the OnClose function ...

CFile fSettings;

if (fSettings.Open("c:\\setttings.xtb", CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeWrite))

{

CArchive ar(&fSettings, CArchive::store);

CXTPPropExchangeArchive px(ar);

CXTPRibbonQuickAccessControls *pQA = m_pRibbonBar->GetQuickAccessControls();

pQA->DoPropExchange(&px); // Causes ASSERT here

ar.Close();

fSettings.Close();

}

The CXTPRibbonQuickAccessControls class doesn't have its own DoPropExchange so this function is calling CXTPControls::DoPropExchange, and that seems to be expecting the m_dwData member of the CXTPPropExchange to be a pointer to a XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM struct...

void CXTPControls::DoPropExchange(CXTPPropExchange* pPX)

{

ASSERT(pPX->m_dwData != 0);

XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM* pParam = (XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM*)pPX->m_dwData;

...

}

I'm not sure how I supposed to know that - so I suspect that I shouldn't be doing this.

However, I continued and fixed the assert by adding these lines before the DoPropExchange call...

XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM param;

param.bSaveOnlyCustomized = FALSE;

param.bSaveOriginalControls = FALSE;

param.bSerializeActions = FALSE;

param.bSerializeControls = TRUE;

param.bSerializeDesignerControls = FALSE;

param.bSerializeImages = FALSE;

param.bSerializeLayout = FALSE;

param.bSerializeOptions = FALSE;

px.m_dwData = (DWORD_PTR)&param;

That seemed to solve the problem - and indeed it appears that the quick access toolbar settings are saved to c:\\settings.xtb.

Loading had similar issues ... the m_dwData had to be initialized to a pointer to the XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM struct, and I had to set param.pCommandBars = GetCommandBars().

Saving & Loading then appears to be working - but is there a better way of accomplishing this?

The Ribbon Bar sample applications included with Codejock 16.3.1 both have saving/loading routines commented out and enabling them either results in a crash, or the changes made to the Quick Access Toolbar not being saved and restored anyway.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

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