Commandbar ribbons with Taskpanel

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   When you use the taskpanel with VB's standard menu's and toolbars it behaves perfectly, resizes to the right size and doesn't cover the menu's up. I tried to use it with commandbar ribbons on a MDI parent form and it covers the entire form including the control box. 

I tried attaching it to a dialogbar in commandbars with the code below and it contains it correctly until you click on one of the groups in the taskpanel then it resizes back to the entire height of the form, covering the ribbon and control box of the form.

Is there a way of making it stay in the right place or do you have to manually size it in Form_Resize? Note this is on a MDI parent form and I have the Taskpanel align set to "alignright"

Dim DialogBar As DialogBar
    Set DialogBar = CommandBars.AddDialogBar("Actions", xtpBarRight)
    DialogBar.ChildHandle = Task1.hWnd

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wakerunner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 29 September 2007 Status: Offline Points: 85	Post Options Post Reply Quote wakerunner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Commandbar ribbons with Taskpanel Posted: 01 November 2007 at 12:21am
	When you use the taskpanel with VB's standard menu's and toolbars it behaves perfectly, resizes to the right size and doesn't cover the menu's up. I tried to use it with commandbar ribbons on a MDI parent form and it covers the entire form including the control box. I tried attaching it to a dialogbar in commandbars with the code below and it contains it correctly until you click on one of the groups in the taskpanel then it resizes back to the entire height of the form, covering the ribbon and control box of the form. Is there a way of making it stay in the right place or do you have to manually size it in Form_Resize? Note this is on a MDI parent form and I have the Taskpanel align set to "alignright" Dim DialogBar As DialogBar Set DialogBar = CommandBars.AddDialogBar("Actions", xtpBarRight) DialogBar.ChildHandle = Task1.hWnd

wakerunner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 29 September 2007 Status: Offline Points: 85	Post Options Post Reply Quote wakerunner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 November 2007 at 2:54pm
	I found a way to get the taskpanel to behave, I put it in another non mdi form and then set "dialogbar.childhandle = form with panel.hwnd" I have another question. Is there a way to make the dialogbar height fill in where the ribbonbar is when that part of the ribbon bar is not being used? In the picture below is there a way to make the "Actions" dialog bar go to right under the about button?

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 November 2007 at 3:00pm
	Hello, No, there is no way.
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS