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SplitButtonPopup enabling & disabling

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Topic: SplitButtonPopup enabling & disabling

Posted By: mrmathis
Subject: SplitButtonPopup enabling & disabling
Date Posted: 16 October 2008 at 5:18pm

I have several xtpControlSplitButtonPopup controls on my ribbon bar. It seems that the enabled state of the droplist half of the control (the little down-arrow) is tied to the enabled state of the button half of the control. I would like to separate this linkage, since I have cases in which the command tied to the button is disabled, but one or more of the commands on the droplist are valid/enabled. In those cases, my users can't get to the enabled commands, since the entire control is disabled and the list won't drop. Is there any way to get around this?

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--Mike

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Posted By: mrmathis
Date Posted: 16 October 2008 at 5:21pm

Whoops, hit Post too quickly. What I would like to see would be the droplist control disabled only if all the commands on it are disabled, independent of whether the button half of the control is enabled or disabled. Is that possible?

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--Mike

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 2:40am

Hi,

Here non documented workaround :)

void CRibbonSampleView::OnUpdateCharUnderline(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
pCmdUI->m_bEnableChanged = 1;

CXTPControl* pControl = CXTPControl::FromUI(pCmdUI);
if (pControl && pControl->GetType() == xtpControlSplitButtonPopup)
{
pControl->SetEnabled(TRUE_SPLITDROPDOWN);
}

}

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: mrmathis
Date Posted: 08 January 2009 at 6:04pm

Maybe it was implied, but I didn't catch that and had to add this to get exactly what I wanted:

{

BOOL bDisableButton = (...my code...) ? TRUE : FALSE;
pControl->SetEnabled(bDisableButton ? TRUE_SPLITDROPDOWN : TRUE);

}

Without the bDisableButton check, my button was always disabled. Sorry if I was dense, but thanks for putting me on the right track.

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--Mike

Posted By: luizturmina
Date Posted: 05 March 2009 at 2:40pm

i have the same problem, but i work in VB6.
Any help?