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Topic: Is it possible to put ribbon bar on a dialog

Posted By: vijaymahajan
Subject: Is it possible to put ribbon bar on a dialog
Date Posted: 16 June 2008 at 5:23am

Hello,

I want to put the ribbon bar on a dialog,as my application is dialog based.

Is it possible to implement ribbon bar on a dialog?

I have implemented the ribbon bar in a MDI application,now i also have to put the ribbon bar in a dialog based application.But there is no sample code available to refer.

Please help me if anyone have any idea about implementing a ribbon bar in a dialog based application.

Thanks And Regards,

Vijay Mahajan.

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 17 June 2008 at 12:41am

Hello,

Yes, its possible. See how DialogSample added Toolbars - use same way to add Ribbon.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Synapse
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 8:34am

Hi,
I'm trying to add a ribbon to a dialog.
In the DialogSample project, in OnInitDialog(), I've added the following lines :


CXTPRibbonBar* pRibbonBar = (CXTPRibbonBar*)pCommandBars->Add(_T("The Ribbon"), xtpBarTop, RUNTIME_CLASS(CXTPRibbonBar));
    if (!pRibbonBar)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
pRibbonBar->EnableDocking(0);

I have also commented the lines that were adding the menu and the toolbar.

The code compiles and launches, but the ribbon doesn't display in the dialog.
I thought that maybe it was because my ribbon was empty, so I've added an empty tab :

CXTPRibbonTab* pTabHome = pRibbonBar->AddTab("MyTab");

And now I have a crash on this line.

Thank you

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Codejock Xtrem Skin Framework 2007 11.1.3
Windows XP SP2

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 9:30am

Hi,

You also need add Ribbon bitmaps to resources:

#include "Styles\Office2007Blue\Office2007Blue.rc"

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Synapse
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 9:52am

I added this line to DialogSample.rc2 but it doesn't works. Do I need at list a tab in the ribbon to see something ?

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Codejock Xtrem Skin Framework 2007 11.1.3
Windows XP SP2

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 June 2008 at 3:11pm

Try also add pRibbon->SetMinimumVisibleWidth(0);

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Synapse
Date Posted: 25 June 2008 at 3:29am

It still doesn't work. Here's my entire OnInitDialog() function


BOOL CDialogSampleDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
    CDialogSampleDlgBase::OnInitDialog();

    // Add "About..." menu item to system menu.

    // IDM_ABOUTBOX must be in the system command range.
    ASSERT((IDM_ABOUTBOX & 0xFFF0) == IDM_ABOUTBOX);
    ASSERT(IDM_ABOUTBOX < 0xF000);

    CMenu* pSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
    if (pSysMenu != NULL)
    {
        CString strAboutMenu;
        strAboutMenu.LoadString(IDS_ABOUTBOX);
        if (!strAboutMenu.IsEmpty())
        {
            pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR);
            pSysMenu->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, IDM_ABOUTBOX, strAboutMenu);
        }
    }

    // Set the icon for this dialog.  The framework does this automatically
    //  when the application's main window is not a dialog
    SetIcon(m_hIcon, TRUE);         // Set big icon
    SetIcon(m_hIcon, FALSE);        // Set small icon

    if (!m_wndStatusBar.Create(this) ||
        !m_wndStatusBar.SetIndicators(indicators,
        sizeof(indicators)/sizeof(UINT)))
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create status bar\n");
        return -1;      // fail to create
    }
    m_wndStatusBar.SetPaneInfo(0, ID_SEPARATOR, SBPS_STRETCH, 100);

    VERIFY(InitCommandBars());

    OnTheme(ID_THEME_WHIDBEY);


    CXTPCommandBars* pCommandBars = GetCommandBars();
    
    XTPImageManager()->SetIcons(IDR_MAINFRAME);
    pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->ShowKeyboardCues(xtpKeyboardCuesShowWindowsDefault);
    pCommandBars->GetToolTipContext()->SetStyle(xtpToolTipOffice);
    pCommandBars->GetShortcutManager()->SetAccelerators(IDR_ACCELERATOR);

    CXTPRibbonBar* pRibbonBar = (CXTPRibbonBar*)pCommandBars->Add(_T("The Ribbon"), xtpBarTop, RUNTIME_CLASS(CXTPRibbonBar));
    if (!pRibbonBar)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
    
    CXTPRibbonTab* pTabHome = pRibbonBar->AddTab("MyTab");
    pRibbonBar->SetMinimumVisibleWidth(0);
    pRibbonBar->EnableDocking(0);


    LoadCommandBars(_T("CommandBars"));

    m_bInitDone = TRUE;

    return TRUE;  // return TRUE  unless you set the focus to a control
}

1) Why does the AddTab call crash ?
2) Do I need to add any ribbon operations outside of the OnInitDialog() function ?

Thank you.

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Codejock Xtrem Skin Framework 2007 11.1.3
Windows XP SP2

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 June 2008 at 4:17am

Hi,

Attach whole changed project.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Synapse
Date Posted: 25 June 2008 at 4:35am

Here it is :
http://synapse.maintenance.free.fr/pub/DialogSample.rar - http://synapse.maintenance.free.fr/pub/DialogSample.rar
I use Visual Studio 8.

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Codejock Xtrem Skin Framework 2007 11.1.3
Windows XP SP2

Posted By: lanlamer
Date Posted: 13 September 2008 at 8:13am

Is the problem sovled or not? I also have the same problem.

Posted By: lemongrass
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 2:38pm

Hello,

I've the same issueand one more:

If I create several tabs, than I can see only controls I added to the first
tab, all the other tabs show nothing at all. If I change the order of the tabs, than always the first one shows controls, the others not. What can I do, I really need ribbons in dialog based application.

Thanks a lot
Mario

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 2:27am

Hi,

Here modified working sample:

http://forum.codejock.com/uploads/20080917_022718_ds.zip - ds.zip

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: lemongrass
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 1:02pm

Hi Oleg, thanks a LOT!

Posted By: lemongrass
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 2:01pm

Hello Oleg

I found an issue with listboxes used in your dialog sample:

when I change back to MyTab, the Listbox remains

    CXTPRibbonTab* pTabHome = pRibbonBar->AddTab("MyTab");
    pTabHome->AddGroup("Group");

    CXTPRibbonTab* pTab2= pRibbonBar->AddTab("Tab2");
    CXTPRibbonGroup* pGroup = pTab2->AddGroup("Group2");

    CXTPControlListBox* pListMemory = new CXTPControlListBox();
    pGroup->Add(pListMemory, IDC_LIST);

    CXTPControlComboBox* pComboMemory = new CXTPControlComboBox();
    pGroup->Add(pComboMemory, IDC_COMBO);

Thanks
Mario

Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 7:44am

Looks like the necessary WS_CLIPCHILDREN/WS_CLIPSIBLINGS-styles are missing. Correct?

Posted By: lemongrass
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 3:14pm

thanks, but adding

    CXTPControlListBox* pListMemory = new CXTPControlListBox();
    CListBox* pListBox = pListMemory->GetListCtrl();
    pListBox->ModifyStyle(0,WS_CLIPCHILDREN | WS_CLIPSIBLINGS);

doesn't solve this issue. But maybe I am doing something wrong here as well.

thanks a lot
mario

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 22 September 2008 at 5:40am

Hello,

No, you are right :( CXTPControlListBox has problem in our code.

Please use Galleries instead. CXTPControlListBox was designed to be used for Popup menus only.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS