Converting older XTP app to Office stype RibbonBar

 

I am a long time XTP programmer. I am converting our application to the Ribbon bar style. Following the direction of the MDI sample app. I have everything loading up ok and the ribbon bar appears and seems to work. I don't have a default new document creating as most default MDI apps do, my app starts with a blank workspace. For initial simplicity I brought over the FILE and EDIT group and much of the init code completely from the MDI sample for testing.

 

1. When I use the New command, it seems the menu merging behaviour happens when the new doc/view is created and my ribbon bar starts showing all the File|Edit|View|etc menu options from the old style menus and the Ribbon groups become empty. I have looked over the MDI sample. It still has the document menu resource, and I can't find any code that prevents the menu merge.

 

2. I have borrowed the shinygears.png for the command icon for now, but it seems to use that png AND also overlay my application icon onto the command button...I used pControlFile->SetIconId(IDB_GEAR).

 

Thanks,

Colin

Changing the windowing of our mature application is not really an option. The sample app I am following is MDI.

 

What do you mean by non-optimal? Are you referring to execution performance? usability?

 

Colin