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Topic: missing features

Posted By: Spyder
Subject: missing features
Date Posted: 18 November 2004 at 12:01am

I've been evaluating Xtreme Suite and while I am really impressed, there are a couple of things missing.

Icons on the status bar
The ability to open a menu from the status bar
A status bar panel that auto-sizes to the text inside it

I also think your "generate commandbars from code" process could use some more documentation. I spent a couple of hours importing all of my toolbar icons into the designer only to find that it's of almost no use to me if I want to generate my toolbars from code. Instead I must import the icons into an ImageManager on my form.

A way to import an XCB file into the ImageManager and have it load the Icons with their IDs would be awesome. Saves people like me what will now be another couple of hours re-importing the icons.

I still plan to stick with it; RTL menu text is important to me and none of the other toolbar controls I've seen offer that

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Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 18 November 2004 at 7:05am

Just a note about the ImageManager. You do not need to manually add them through the GUI. You can easily add them via code. If you look at the help for the ReportControl, there are a few good example on how to do this, and the Outlook 2003 sample shows how to do this as well.

About the status bar, submit this as a feature request.

Posted By: Spyder
Date Posted: 18 November 2004 at 5:06pm

SuperMario wrote:

Just a note about the ImageManager.� You do not need to manually
add them through the GUI.� You can easily add them via code.�
If you look at the help for the ReportControl, there are a few good
example on how to do this, and the Outlook 2003 sample shows how to do
this as well.

True, but I don't want to distribute 91 image files :P
(or 1 big image with the 91 images in it)

SuperMario wrote:

About the status bar, submit this as a feature request.

Thanks, I'll do that.

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 19 November 2004 at 7:21am

Something I forgot to mention.

The images that were added in the Designer Studio can be accessed via code and still have the IDs associated with them that were assigned in the Designer.

They are located in CommandBars.DesignerControls. There is no need to import the icons both times manually.

Posted By: Spyder
Date Posted: 21 November 2004 at 5:03pm

SuperMario wrote:

Something I forgot to mention.

The images that were added in the Designer Studio
can be accessed via code and still have the IDs associated with them
that were assigned in the Designer.

They are located in CommandBars.DesignerControls.�� There is no need to import the icons both times manually.

I guess that's one way around it - although I've already imported the icons into the IconManager and it's better for me since I have much easier control over the IDs.

I'm having second thoughts about using CommandBars though, it lacks some basic toolbar concepts like having one object to access all instances of a CommandBarControl.