How to apply Skins to Ribbon Bar

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   Hello CJ Team,

We have implemented Ribbon bar in our application previously we are using normal toolbar where we can apply different skin to the application (Code as follow).

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 switch (iStyleNo)

   {

   case None:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(_T(""), _T(""));          

      break;

   case Office2007Style:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Office2007.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI"));

      break;

   case WindowsVistaStyle:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Vista.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI"));

      break;

   case WindowsVistaStyleBlack:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Vista.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlack.INI"));

      break;

     case WindowsXPLunaStyle:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("WinXP.Luna.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI"));

      break;         

   case WindowsXPRoyalStyle:

      XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("WinXP.Royale.cjstyles"), _T("NormalRoyale.INI"));

      break;

}

XTPSkinManager()->SetApplyOptions(XTPSkinManager()->GetApplyOptions() | xtpSkinApplyMetrics);   

   XTPPaintManager()->RefreshMetrics();

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Now we have ribbon bar with the replacement of toolbar in that case we are not able to set the skin to the Ribon bar.

Is it possible to set the style to the Ribbon bar? if yes then How can we apply? 

-Mak

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Makarand Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 February 2007 Location: India Status: Offline Points: 140	Post Options Post Reply Quote Makarand Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to apply Skins to Ribbon Bar Posted: 31 March 2010 at 6:30am
	Hello CJ Team, We have implemented Ribbon bar in our application previously we are using normal toolbar where we can apply different skin to the application (Code as follow). ------------------------------------------------- switch (iStyleNo) { case None: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(_T(""), _T("")); break; case Office2007Style: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Office2007.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI")); break; case WindowsVistaStyle: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Vista.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI")); break; case WindowsVistaStyleBlack: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("Vista.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlack.INI")); break; case WindowsXPLunaStyle: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("WinXP.Luna.cjstyles"), _T("NormalBlue.INI")); break; case WindowsXPRoyalStyle: XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strStylesPath + _T("WinXP.Royale.cjstyles"), _T("NormalRoyale.INI")); break; } XTPSkinManager()->SetApplyOptions(XTPSkinManager()->GetApplyOptions() \| xtpSkinApplyMetrics); XTPPaintManager()->RefreshMetrics(); ------------------------------------------------------- Now we have ribbon bar with the replacement of toolbar in that case we are not able to set the skin to the Ribon bar. Is it possible to set the style to the Ribbon bar? if yes then How can we apply? -Mak

Smucker Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 156	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smucker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 March 2010 at 1:50pm
	If ribbons work the same as regular command bars, you just need set the style to NativeWinXP. The code below is copied from a routine I use to keep command bar themes, pane themes, and grid themes in synch, along with allowing for skins: if (XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(filename) ) { CXTPCommandBars* pbars = GetCommandBars(); // From main frame XTPPaintManager()->SetTheme(xtpThemeNativeWinXP); pbars->GetImageManager()->RefreshAll(); pbars->UpdateCommandBars(); pbars->RedrawCommandBars(); ApplySkin(); } ApplySkin() looks like this: void CMainFrame::ApplySkin() { DWORD options = xtpSkinApplyColors; XTPPaintManager()->RefreshMetrics(); if (m_skinning) { if (m_skinframe) options \|= xtpSkinApplyFrame; //\|xtpSkinApplyMetrics; XTPSkinManager()->SetApplyOptions(options); } XTPSkinManager()->SetAutoApplyNewWindows(TRUE); XTPSkinManager()->SetAutoApplyNewThreads(TRUE); XTPSkinManager()->EnableCurrentThread(); XTPSkinManager()->ApplyWindow(GetSafeHwnd()); XTPSkinManager()->RedrawAllControls(); ExcludeSkinModules(XTPSkinManager()); OnSysColorChange(); RedrawWindow(0, 0, RDW_INVALIDATE\|RDW_UPDATENOW\|RDW_ERASE\|RDW_ALLCHILDREN); } I'm probably doing some unnecessary repainting, but this isn't something that happens that often, so I'm not worried about it.
	Product: Xtreme Toolkit Pro version 13.2 (Unicode, static build) Platform: Windows 200x/XP/Vista/Win7 (32/64 bit) Language: Visual C++ 9.0 (Studio 2008)