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Moving ribbon tabs, groups and controls

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Topic: Moving ribbon tabs, groups and controls

Posted By: rdhd
Subject: Moving ribbon tabs, groups and controls
Date Posted: 05 December 2009 at 12:44pm

I am working on customization of our ribbon.

How do I move a ribbon tab?

How do I move a group?

How do I move a control?

I have not found any methods that support this. Calling the Remove methods so I can then call an insert method causes deletion of the control.

Should I just call the "get at" method, addref the item and then call remove and insert or is there direct support for this that I have missed?

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Posted By: rdhd
Date Posted: 05 December 2009 at 5:31pm

I found I can easily move a tab by getting the tab manager from the tab and calling the MoveItem method of the tab manager.

Moving a group was not so easy (or cheap). I had to get the groups object. Insert a new object at the desired location. Then call the Copy method on the new group I just inserted passing in the group I originally wanted to move. Then I deleted the original group.

I could not find a way to just move the original group. I tried addreffing the original group and calling Remove but the group deleted all the controls and I ended up with an empy group when I reinserted it where I wanted it. So I have to suffer having all the controls cloned and the original controls deleted (along with the original group).

It sure would have been great if there was a bit of symmetry and the groups object, like the tab manager, had a MoveItem method.

I have not yet got to moving a control. I sure hope there is an easy (and cheap) way to move a control.