How do I determine when a CXTPRibbonBar tab is changed?

Thanks,

Italo

I wasn’t able to find a wait to receive a tab change notification from the ribbon bar. So, I modified the XTP library as following. Please make these changes or implement a way to determine when a tab is changing and changed.

Add the following to XTPRibbonBar.h

protected:

      virtual BOOL OnBeforeTabChange(CXTPRibbonTab*) { return TRUE; }

      virtual void OnTabChanged(CXTPRibbonTab*) {}

Change SetCurSel in XTPRibbonBar.cpp

void CXTPRibbonBar::SetCurSel(int nIndex)

{

      CXTPTabManagerItem* pItem = m_pControlTab->GetItem(nIndex);

      if( pItem != NULL )

      {

             if( !OnBeforeTabChange( (CXTPRibbonTab*)pItem ) ) return;

             m_pControlTab->SetCurSel(nIndex);

             OnTabChanged( (CXTPRibbonTab*)pItem );

      }

}

Add the following to XTPRibbonControlTab.h

protected:

      BOOL OnBeforeItemClick(CXTPTabManagerItem* pItem);

      void OnItemClick(CXTPTabManagerItem* pItem);

Add the following to XTPRibbonControlTab.cpp

BOOL CXTPRibbonControlTab::OnBeforeItemClick(CXTPTabManagerItem* pItem)

{

      if( !GetRibbonBar()->OnBeforeTabChange( (CXTPRibbonTab*)pItem ) )

             return FALSE;

      return CXTPTabManager::OnBeforeItemClick(pItem);

}

void CXTPRibbonControlTab::OnItemClick(CXTPTabManagerItem* pItem)

{

      CXTPTabManager::OnItemClick(pItem);

      GetRibbonBar()->OnTabChanged( (CXTPRibbonTab*)pItem );

}

Instead of calling virtual methods you should send TCN_SELCHANGE and TCN_SELCHANGING notify messages to the owner.

What would be nice is to implement both methods, that way inheritors and owners can handle the notification. But, I was in a hurry and didn’t have the time to do it. Hopefully the XTP team will implement this.

Can someone from CodeJock please let me know if you're going to add something like this to the Ribbon bar?

Thanks,

Italo