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Defining toolbar on Ribbon Bar in XML

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Topic: Defining toolbar on Ribbon Bar in XML

Posted By: JoeW
Subject: Defining toolbar on Ribbon Bar in XML
Date Posted: 10 November 2008 at 11:56am

We have decided to try and define our ribbon bars with XML so that we can update the UI with just a change to the XML file, and also it would give the customer flexibility as well to change it.

What I want to do is have a "Font" section sort of like how MS Word or Excel does it. So, it needs to be more of a toolbar layout in that particular Group.

Is there something I can define in the Group, ControlGroupOption, to make the buttons layout as a toolbar, i.e. left to right instead of vertically, 3-per column?

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 11 November 2008 at 1:12am

Him

Think its easy for you first create layout in code and then save it to XML file with DoPropExchange method.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: JoeW
Date Posted: 11 November 2008 at 1:06pm

Should I be doing anything other than this? Because it does not show anything useful. I am using ver 1202.

XTP_COMMANDBARS_PROPEXCHANGE_PARAM param;

param.bSerializeControls = TRUE;

CXTPPropExchangeXMLNode px(FALSE, NULL, _T("Settings"));

CXTPPropExchangeSection pxCommandBars(px.GetSection(_T("CommandBars")));

GetCommandBars()->DoPropExchange(&pxCommandBars, &param);

px.SaveToFile("c:\\users\\joe\\testout.xml");

Posted By: JoeW
Date Posted: 11 November 2008 at 3:24pm

I finally found the answer to my question by investigating the code. The answer is to add the following attribute to the Group:

ControlsGrouping="1"