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   Hi,

Whenever a popup is displayed with no controls in it a square shaped button like item (a guess the default popup window with no item) pops up. I would expect it to show nothing if there is no item in the popup bar. CAn anybody tell me is there any way to disable this behavior so that no popup is displayed when there is no controls in the popup bar.

The image with the most might show the problem.

Thanks in advence

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iftekhar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 25 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote iftekhar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: blank popup window Posted: 23 February 2010 at 11:26am
	Hi, Whenever a popup is displayed with no controls in it a square shaped button like item (a guess the default popup window with no item) pops up. I would expect it to show nothing if there is no item in the popup bar. CAn anybody tell me is there any way to disable this behavior so that no popup is displayed when there is no controls in the popup bar. The image with the most might show the problem. Thanks in advence
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moe188 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 March 2006 Status: Offline Points: 220	Post Options Post Reply Quote moe188 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 February 2010 at 10:00am
	Hi, check your code. You are using something similar to: Set control = .Add(xtpControlPopup, 0, "Icons") you may want to change xtpControlPopup to xtpControlButton good luck
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jpbro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 January 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1355	Post Options Post Reply Quote jpbro Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 February 2010 at 12:46pm
	Or if you want it to be a popup that is only populate with items sometimes, you should set the Enabled property for the Popup Control to FALSE before you have added items to it, and set it to TRUE after you have added items to it. You could even check the status in the InitCommandsPopup event by testing for the ID of your View control, and then set the Enabled status of your Icons control accordingly.
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Aaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 29 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Aaron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 February 2010 at 2:01pm
	Hi, I'm not that familiar with Commandbars but I would expect that .AutoHideUnusedPopups = True would hide these kind of popups but it didn't. I looked in HELP file and found: Remarks When AutoHideUnusedPopups is TRUE, the popup menus behave similar to the Windows Start menu. If all controls in a popup control are hidden, then the entire popup control will be hidden as well. So I was close... but not satisfied... So I tried something else: Dim popupCommandbar As CommandBar Dim commandBarControl As CommandBarControl Me.CommandBars.OPTIONS.AutoHideUnusedPopups = True Set popupCommandbar = CommandBars.Add("PopupTest", xtpBarPopup) Set commandBarControl = popupCommandbar.Controls.Add(xtpControlButtonPopup, 1, "Control Item") commandBarControl.CommandBar.Controls.Add xtpControlButton, 2, "Popup Item" commandBarControl.HideFlags = xtpHideWrap If you comment commandBarControl.HideFlags = xtpHideWrap popup will show empty popupitem but with it, it doesn't. As I said before I'm not that familiar with Commandbars so there's definitely a solution without "workarounds" Maybe there's a Commandbars GURU in this forum who actually knows how to solve this...
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jpbro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 January 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1355	Post Options Post Reply Quote jpbro Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 February 2010 at 5:10pm
	I still think changing the enabled status based on whether or not there are children is the way to go - why trick the user into thinking there are some nice icons to see when there aren't? They will point to the menu item, nothing will appear and they will think the app is broken. I supposed an AutoDisableEmptyPopups option would be nice to automate the process.
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Aaron Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 29 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 2192	Post Options Post Reply Quote Aaron Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 February 2010 at 3:33am
	Hi Jason, You are right about that, would be nice option to have and @iftekhar forget what I replied, I was totally wrong about this
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jpbro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 January 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1355	Post Options Post Reply Quote jpbro Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 February 2010 at 12:46pm
	Here's a small demo of what I was suggesting: uploads/20100227_124629_CmdBarDynamicEn.zip
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