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Topic: Quick Access Separators

Posted By: mrmathis
Subject: Quick Access Separators
Date Posted: 12 November 2008 at 9:55am

My designers would like a separator capability on the quick access toolbar. Something like this:

or this

I tried calling BeginGroup on a couple of controls, and got this.

That is servicable but not as aesthetically pleasing as I was hoping. Is there any way to add some spacing around the bar to give a more obvious separation? Is the second picture in my wish list even remotely possible?

Thanks.

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--Mike

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 13 November 2008 at 2:38am

Thanks, please patch our sources - insert

if (pControl->GetBeginGroup())
nLeft += 6;

in CXTPRibbonBar::Reposition

before "if (!bSpecial && (nLeft + szControl.cx > nRight))"

Its changed for next release too.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: mrmathis
Date Posted: 13 January 2009 at 11:08am

This is working out well for me. One question has been raised by my UI specialists. When docked above the ribbon, the separator is a couple of pixels too high, as shown below:

It looks fine when docked below the ribbon.

I think I've found the code that draws this in CXTPOffice2003Theme::DrawCommandBarSeparator.

...

else if (pBar->GetPosition() == xtpBarTop || pBar->GetPosition() == xtpBarBottom || bSkipWrapSeparators)
{
  if (!pControl->GetWrap())
  {
   Line(pDC, rcControl.left - 4, rcRow.top + 4, rcControl.left - 4, rcRow.bottom - 4, XPCOLOR_SEPARATOR);
   if (!m_bPlainSeparators) Line(pDC, rcControl.left - 3, rcRow.top + 5, rcControl.left - 3, rcRow.bottom - 3, COLOR_3DHIGHLIGHT);
  }
...

It looks like rcRow.top is what I want adjusted, but I don't see how to isolate the "above" case from the "below" case. Additionally, it looks like this function is used by popup menus as well, and I don't want to hose those up. Any suggestions for cleaning this up?

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--Mike

Posted By: mrmathis
Date Posted: 23 January 2009 at 11:46am

Any thoughts on this?

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--Mike