How to handle different ribbons
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Topic: How to handle different ribbons
Posted By: Alex H.
Subject: How to handle different ribbons
Date Posted: 04 January 2013 at 4:33am
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If you have different kind of ribbons in one application like e.g. Outlook. What is the suggested way to handle this? Do i have to create a new ribbon control or is it better to change the one and only ribbon? Or can i create multiple ribbons and switch between them by showing only one of them at a time? Thanks |
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Posted By: Alex H.
Date Posted: 10 January 2013 at 4:34am
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Outlook 2010 uses multiple "Start" Tabs for different areas. You can see it in the customization dialog:  So it looks like Outlook creates al Tabs at once and then shows/hides them on demand. Question: The Caption "Start" has a different display in the cutomization dialog. How can I get the same behaviour? |
Posted By: rdhd
Date Posted: 01 February 2013 at 5:48pm
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We generally keep a single ribbon and empty it out and rebuild it when we switch document types or load a user's customized ribbon (UI layout). I have also created a separate ribbon and loaded it for automation purposes. I ran into a few issues with that. I actually created a new CommandBars object and added the ribbon to it. I had to call SetSite (myFrame), call pCommandBars->EnableDocking() (or I crashed where CJ accessed NULL dockbar pointers) and I called pCommandBars->SetTheme. Also I had a problem with both ribbons trying to display (pRibbonBar->SetVisible(FALSE) took care of that). I don't recall if I tried using the frame's CCommandBars object to create multiple ribbons but I wouldn't think that would be a problem. Generally I think you just have to know when to call SetVisible to undisplay one ribbon and display another. |
Posted By: Alex H.
Date Posted: 13 March 2013 at 5:25am
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Hello out there :-) Has anyone found a solution for that? @Codejock: If not: any plans to fix this problem in the next version? Thanks https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4854696?start=0&tstart=0 -
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