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Topic: Combobox in menu bar?

Posted By: brianh
Subject: Combobox in menu bar?
Date Posted: 22 February 2008 at 10:31am

Hi, is it possible to add a combobox to the menu bar as a top level item, preferably on the far right hand side away from the other menu items?

Thanks.

Brian

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Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 22 February 2008 at 11:44am

Yes

Posted By: brianh
Date Posted: 25 February 2008 at 8:24am

I can't find any sample projects that have a combo in the menu bar (as shown in your bitmap), but it doesn't matter, I figured out how to do it myself.

Thanks.

Posted By: SunIron
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:24am

try this example
\Codejock Software\MFC\Xtreme ToolkitPro v11.2.2\Samples\CommandBars\DynamicPopups\

Posted By: Onur
Date Posted: 01 June 2008 at 1:06am

Hello, is there a sample for ActiveX?
I'm not using MFC..

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 12.0.1
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 2
Language: Visual C# .NET

Posted By: steven123
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 3:39am

brianh wrote:

I can't find any sample projects that have a combo in the menu bar (as shown in your bitmap), but it doesn't matter, I figured out how to do it myself.

Thanks.

Hi brianh, i have the same question to you. But i have not figured out it. Can you share you idea with? thank you .

Posted By: brianh
Date Posted: 19 October 2009 at 4:31am

Hi steven123, I used the following code to add a combo to the r/h side of the menu bar:

CXTPCommandBars* pCommandBars = GetCommandBars() ;

CXTPMenuBar* pMenuBar = pCommandBars->GetMenuBar() ;

// now add combo control to r/h side of menu

CXTPControls* pCtrls = pMenuBar->GetControls() ;

ASSERT( NULL == pCtrls->FindControl(ID_MYCOMBO) ) ; // should NOT already exist!

CXTPControlComboBox* pMyCB = (CXTPControlComboBox*)pCtrls->Add( xtpControlComboBox, ID_MYCOMBO, NULL, -1, TRUE ) ;

pMyCB->SetCaption(_T("My Combo"));

pMyCB->SetWidth(180);

pMyCB->SetDropDownListStyle( FALSE ) ; // dropdown list mode (no edit)

pMyCB->SetFlags( xtpFlagManualUpdate | xtpFlagNoMovable | xtpFlagRightAlign ) ;

In my case I need to switch menus on the fly so I placed this code where I switch the menus, but I expect you will probably want to put it in OnCreate() or wherever you initialize the command bars.

NB: The last parameter to the CXTPControls::Add() method call is bTemporary, which I have set to TRUE, but I can't remember what this actually does, so you may need to experiment with it or check out the source code to see if you need to set it differently.

I don't know if this is the recommended method to use, but it works for me. :)

brian

Posted By: steven123
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 10:53pm

Hi brianh, first of all , thanks for you share of the idea.

yes, as you said i have figured out the how to add a control in right-side of the command bar.

Just by adding a menu item at the end of the main meunbar, and set it's ID like ID_MYCOMBO, I initialize the menubar in mainframe.cpp:

int CMainFrame::OnCreateControl(LPCREATECONTROLSTRUCT lpCreateControl)

{

......

if(lpCreateControl->nID == ID_MYCOMBO)

{

CXTPControlComboBox* pComboBox = new CXTPControlComboBox();

pComboBox ->SetDropDownListStyle(TRUE);

pComboBox ->SetWidth(180);

pComboBox ->SetID(ID_MYCOMBO);

pComboBox ->SetFlags(xtpFlagManualUpdate | xtpFlagRightAlign);

pComboBox ->SetEditHint(_T("some strings"));

lpCreateControl->pControl = pComboBox ;

return TRUE;

}

.............

}

I needn't to switch menus on the fly .