We are a new customer trying to fit your framework into an existing product and I’d like some advice as to a good approach to take with our toolbars and menus.  Our product is a “Studio” type application that is made up of several DLLS that are loaded dynamically; these DLLs may register one or more document templates with the application.  Each has its own menu and toolbar.  The current system loads and dynamically updates the main menu.  It loads the main toolbar and it loops through all registered entities and loads their toolbars with the auto-delete style turned on.  When a document is activated, the appropriate toolbar is shown to the side of the main toolbar.  So, the docking state of the main toolbar is the only state saved in this current solution, and all the MDI document toolbars just use that state when it is their time to appear.

With your framework, I have gotten the main menu and the MDI document menus working.  But I was unsure about a good toolbar approach.  I would really like to provide customization to these menus and toolbars.  With a quick test of the customization, I was able to add more items by calling AddCategories() with each of my document template’s toolbar ID.  However, duplicates do appear for each menu added so that approach will need some work if pursued. 

I was looking at the MDI Menus sample and was considering whether I need to dynamically build an all inclusive menu and toolbar as things are registered.  It appears that there is an AssignDocTemplate that may be able to be used.  But I am not sure if it is cumulative, meaning several document templates may be able to be tied to the items.  Additionally, I was not sure if that also would work for toolbars.  Your menu and toolbars do not really map to the MFC controls for them so there is a bit of a learning curve.

Management is excited about the Ribbon interface they have seen and they will want some sort of move to it sometime down the line.  My initial approach was to see if I could lay your Framework in and replace some of our own home grown solutions.  But if it makes sense to consider Ribbons now or take a certain track to make that transition easier, please advise with that too.