EnableActions() problem

Hello,

Immediately after creating the CommandBars object I call EnableActions.

I add several Actions, and several menu items referencing the actions.

However, when I disable an action the menu item referencing that action is still enabled. Nothing happens when the user clicks on the menu item, as expected, since the Action is disabled.

Are thee other steps I have to take to update the Enabled state of all controls that refer to an Action (when the state of the Action changes)?

Thanks for advice...

oleg wrote: Hi, All you need is to create actions before menu items.

This is very alarming. Are you saying that all actions must be created before menu items/toolbar controls?
That after actions are created and menu items reference them, no more actions can be added?
If so, this is a dreadful limitation.

I believe I am taking the same steps the ActionsSample program is taking:
-- Call EnableActions after creating the CommandBars control, before creating any Actions or controls.
-- Add an Action
-- Add a menu item referring to the Action

As far as I can tell, the only difference between the ActionsSample and my code is that the ActionsSample creates all the Actions before creating any menu items.
My code creates an Action, then the menu item referring to the Action; creates an Action, then a menu item; etc.

If its of any interest, I had just the same problem --- I was using a RibbonBar with the CommandBar and I could create actions without error - but unless I created them BEFORE the ribbonbar controls, none of the action properties were executed --- i.e. I could set Enabled etc. without error, but they made no difference to the state of the control.

As soon as I created the actions before the controls, I could then do everything as per the documentation.

Regards


--Andrew

Hi,