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Topic: How to disable an item in toolbar?

Posted By: lexicon
Subject: How to disable an item in toolbar?
Date Posted: 12 December 2007 at 8:28am

How to disable an item in toolbar?

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

Hi,

Please start learning from our samples. They have a lot of such things.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: lexicon
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 2:39am

Sorry but even if i'm seeing you doing it in your samples, i still don't understand how you are doing it

Posted By: ijwelch
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 7:36am

It will usually be in the CommandBars_Update event.

Posted By: lexicon
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 7:46am

And how can i refer to the spesific item in Toolbar?

Posted By: jcollier
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:01pm

Set up a boolean variable for each button that you want to enable/disable.

In your CommandBars_Update event, set the enabled property for each button to the value of the corresponding variable, like so (or you could specify each button exactly instead of using Select Case):

Private Sub CommandBars_Update(ByVal Control As XtremeCommandBars.ICommandBarControl)

    Select Case Control.ID
        Case ID_FIRSTPAGEOFDOCUMENT
            Control.Checked = blnFirstPageOfDocument

        Case ID_SUPERVISORCHECK
            Control.Checked = blnSupervisorCheck
            Control.Enabled = blnSupervisorCheckEnable

        Case ID_PAGEDOWNNEXTDOCUMENT
            Control.Checked = blnPageDownToNextDocument

        Case ID_SPELLCHECKTOGGLE
            Control.Checked = blnSpellCheck

        Case ID_HOMEANDENDKEYENDOFLINETOGGLE
            Control.Checked = blnHomeAndEndKey

        Case ID_ENTERKEYPAGEDOWN
            Control.Checked = blnEnterKeyPageDown

        Case ID_SUPERVISORCHECKNOTES
            Control.Enabled = blnSupervisorCheckComments
    End Select

End Sub

When you want to change the enabled state of a button, you simply set the value of the corresponding boolean variable to the desired value. The update event will then take over and enable/disable the button for you.

Posted By: lexicon
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:40pm

The Update event happens all the time

I want the program to start with a button disabled (which i can do with Update event) and then after a button clicked to disable another one

Lets say you have a New button and a Save Button

The Save button will be disabled and when the New button clicked, the New button will be disabled and the Save button will be enabled

Thank you very much for your help

Posted By: jcollier
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 1:48pm

Right. What I would do there is set up boolean variables in the General Declaration of the form for each of your 2 buttons.

In Form_Load set the booleans to the disable/enable values you want.

In CommandBars_Update set the enabled property of each button to the boolean value

In the click event of each button, set the boolean values to the desired state.

That should do it.

Posted By: lexicon
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 2:34pm

Thanks a lot, that's what i want

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 3:03pm

Jason, Thanks for help. :-)

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS