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Topic: Composite Control & Embeded Commandbar

Posted By: pavold
Subject: Composite Control & Embeded Commandbar
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 5:43am

Hi,

I have a situation, where I want to group several controls together in the commandbar/ribbonbar.

In this case, it's a combobox and several buttons.

It is important, that these controls retail the fixed layout (in respect to each other) all the times. In other words, they should act like a single control.
Yet they should retain all the functionality of a distinct controls.

I tried to embed a commandbar to CXTPControlCustom, but I was not successful.

Can you give me some hints how to achieve this?

Thanks,
Pavol.

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 9:02am

Hi,

You can call

pGroup->SetControlsGrouping(); and controls will acts like Paragraph/Font group of RibbonSample.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: pavold
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 9:35am

Nice, this is almost what I need.

But I need to enable it only for several controls from the ribbon group.
Something like this:

-----------------------------------------------
| ########## | < X | Combo | Y > |
| # Large # | < X | Combo | Y > | .. some other controls
| # Button # | < X | Combo | Y > |
| ########## | |
-------------------------------------------------

So I have here a ribbon group, that has one large button, then a group of
3 *composites* (button-combo-button) and other controls group.

I'd like to see *composites* grouped just like SetControlsGrouping(), but the rest to be grouped in the normal way.

Would this be possible to get?

Best regards,
Pavol.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 12:04am

Sorry, no :(

only whole group can be set.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: pavold
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 2:04am

And what would you suggest to solve the original problem?

Pavol

Posted By: pavold
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 8:24am

BTW: I spotted, that excel 2007 can arrange the buttons in the way I have described. It would be nice to have it supported in ToolkitPro.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 12 July 2007 at 1:27am

Hi,

You can try override CXTPRibbonGroup, its OnCalcDynamicSize and manually position buttons inside this group.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS