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Topic: Grouping Controls on a Ribbon

Posted By: Danlar
Subject: Grouping Controls on a Ribbon
Date Posted: 05 May 2008 at 3:58pm

Hello,

I recently discovered the SetControlsGrouping function on CXTPRibbonGroup. For any unfamiliar readers, this function provides two alternative ways to "group" various controls within a single CXTPRibbonGroup. Here is an example from the RibbonSample of two different groups: The one and on the left has ControlsGrouping set to False, and the one on the right has it set to True.

I noticed a ribbon group in Microsoft Excel 2007 that appears to be combining both of these styles within a single CXTPRibbonGroup. Is it possible with CodeJock to make a ribbon group appear like this one from excel? Note that the right half of this Ribbon Group is denoted with a separator, whereas the left half uses ControlsGrouping. I couldn't find a way to use separators when ControlsGrouping is True.

Here is a mock-up of what we would most like our ribbon group to look like; is this possible? Notice how the far left control appears to be "ungrouped," and we have a separator in there, yet some controls are still "grouped" together (below the left combobox and in the top-right corner).

Thanks,
Dan Fike

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Posted By: cpehonk
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 12:56am

Hi Dan,

did you already try to use "BeginGroup( TRUE)" on the first added control of the "sub-group" ? Didn't try this myself but it might work for you.

It works perfectly for inserting separators so far ...

Greetings,

Chris

Posted By: Danlar
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 10:44am

Consider the following group:

This group was constructed with the following code:

CXTPRibbonTab* tab = pRibbonBar->AddTab(_T("TestTab"));

CXTPRibbonGroup* group = tab->AddGroup(_T("TestGroup"));



group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE)->SetBeginGroup(TRUE);

     

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE)->SetBeginGroup(TRUE);

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE);

     

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE)->SetBeginGroup(TRUE);

     

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE)->SetBeginGroup(TRUE);

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE);

     

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE)->SetBeginGroup(TRUE);

group->Add(xtpControlButton, ID_EDIT_PASTE);



group->SetControlsGrouping(FALSE);

Now, if I change that very last line of code to read as group->SetControlsGrouping(TRUE), the group will look like this instead:

The CXTPControl::SetBeginGroup function has different results if you change the argument to CXTPRibbonGroup::SetControlsGrouping. You don't get separators anymore. I'm trying to find a way to blend both results in a single group, the way Microsoft Excel 2007 appears to be doing it in the screenshot of my previous post.

Furthermore, I added calls to CXTPControl::SetStyle to the last two controls in the above code, using xtpButtonIconAndCaption and xtpButtonIconAndCaptionBelow as arguments, and this was the result.

That seems a bit odd.

It doesn't seem that CodeJock is capable of making a ribbon group that looks like the Excel image or the desired mock-up in my original post. I'm just looking to confirm this before I move on.

-Dan

Posted By: cpehonk
Date Posted: 06 May 2008 at 12:51pm

Understood and agreed ...

Maybe this is a job for Oleg again ...

Greetings,

Chris