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How to add a custom control to a Ribbon group

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Topic: How to add a custom control to a Ribbon group

Posted By: fernando
Subject: How to add a custom control to a Ribbon group
Date Posted: 06 November 2008 at 10:26am

Hi,

I'd like to add a custom control to a RibbonBar group. How ca I do this?

I was expecting to fin a Handle property in the CommandBarControlCustom as in the TaskPanelGroupItem, but couldn't find any.

Thanks in advance

Replies:

Posted By: fernando
Date Posted: 06 November 2008 at 10:58am

Got it, nevermind.

Posted By: fernando
Date Posted: 06 November 2008 at 11:07am

Hi,

I have managed to add the custom control using the Handle property, but now I'm having a very odd issue: the custom control appears out of the RibbonBar group until I click on the group. Then it gets docked.

How can I have it docked from the beginning???

Here's the code I'm using:
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Dim rGroup As RibbonGroup
Dim rItem As XtremeCommandBars.CommandBarControlCustom

Set rTab = m_rRibbon.Tab(2)

Set rGroup = rTab.Groups.AddGroup("Creating Resumes", 45)

Set rItem = rGroup.Add(xtpControlCustom, eResumesComboItem, rcString(eResumesComboItem))
rItem.Handle = m_rView.ResumeCombo.WindowHandle

After thsi code runs, the custom control (ResumeCombo) isn't docked and is displayed out of the ribbonbar. How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Fernando
PS I'musing VB6 and version 10.4.2

Posted By: ijwelch
Date Posted: 07 November 2008 at 7:57pm

I think it'll work if you put the m_rView.ResumeCombo in a PictureBox first, then use rItem.Handle = PictureBox.hWnd

Posted By: TShriver
Date Posted: 06 March 2009 at 12:26pm

I'm having the opposite effect. I've added a xtpControlCustom item the DateTimePicker and it shows up in the RibbonBar until I click it. Then it shows up as a button.

   Dim TabAdvanced As RibbonTab
   Set TabAdvanced = RibbonBar.InsertTab(7, "&Advanced")
   TabAdvanced.Id = ID_TAB_ADVANCED

   Set ViewGroup = TabAdvanced.Groups.AddGroup("&Advanced Controls", ID_GROUP_ADVANCED)
   ViewGroup.ControlsCentering = True

   Dim ItemCustom As XtremeCommandBars.CommandBarControlCustom

Set ItemCustom = ViewGroup.Add(xtpControlCustom, 777, "Time", False, False)
ItemCustom.Handle = TimePicker.hWnd

Before Click:

After Click:

Any ideas???

Thanks,

Tim