How to handle different ribbons

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   If you have different kind of ribbons in one application like e.g. Outlook.
What is the suggested way to handle this?
Do i have to create a new ribbon control or is it better to change the one and only ribbon?
Or can i create multiple ribbons and switch between them by showing only one of them at a time?

Thanks

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Alex H. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 266	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alex H. Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to handle different ribbons Posted: 04 January 2013 at 4:33am
	If you have different kind of ribbons in one application like e.g. Outlook. What is the suggested way to handle this? Do i have to create a new ribbon control or is it better to change the one and only ribbon? Or can i create multiple ribbons and switch between them by showing only one of them at a time? Thanks

Alex H. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 266	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alex H. Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 January 2013 at 4:34am
	Outlook 2010 uses multiple "Start" Tabs for different areas. You can see it in the customization dialog: So it looks like Outlook creates al Tabs at once and then shows/hides them on demand. Question: The Caption "Start" has a different display in the cutomization dialog. How can I get the same behaviour?

rdhd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 13 August 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 886	Post Options Post Reply Quote rdhd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 February 2013 at 5:48pm
	We generally keep a single ribbon and empty it out and rebuild it when we switch document types or load a user's customized ribbon (UI layout). I have also created a separate ribbon and loaded it for automation purposes. I ran into a few issues with that. I actually created a new CommandBars object and added the ribbon to it. I had to call SetSite (myFrame), call pCommandBars->EnableDocking() (or I crashed where CJ accessed NULL dockbar pointers) and I called pCommandBars->SetTheme. Also I had a problem with both ribbons trying to display (pRibbonBar->SetVisible(FALSE) took care of that). I don't recall if I tried using the frame's CCommandBars object to create multiple ribbons but I wouldn't think that would be a problem. Generally I think you just have to know when to call SetVisible to undisplay one ribbon and display another.

Alex H. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 266	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alex H. Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 March 2013 at 5:25am
	Hello out there :-) Has anyone found a solution for that? @Codejock: If not: any plans to fix this problem in the next version? Thanks