How to: Ribbon Toolbars from CommandBars Designer

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   I'm playing around with Ribbon toolbars that have been loaded in from CommandBars Designer projects and can currently switch between Ribbon bars at runtime which is nice. As I couldn't really find anything in the forum on how to do it I thought I'd post up my code to help others out. The sample applications only show how to load in from binary resources in your application but if like me you want to load different layouts at different times without having to recompile then the following will help.

CFile pFile(_T("res\\CamioMin.xcb"),CFile::modeRead);

CArchive ar1(&pFile,CArchive::load | CArchive::bNoFlushOnDelete);

pCommandBars->LoadDesignerBars(ar1);

ar1.Close();

The following brings my designer toolbars in for customisation, excellent :

void CMainFrame::ShowCustomizeDialog(int nSelectedPage)

{

     CXTPCustomizeSheet cs(GetCommandBars());

     CXTPCommandBars* pCommandBars = GetCommandBars();

     CXTPRibbonCustomizeQuickAccessPage pageQuickAccess(&cs);

     cs.AddPage(&pageQuickAccess);

     pageQuickAccess.AddCategories(pCommandBars->m_pDesignerControls);

     CXTPCustomizeKeyboardPage pageKeyboard(&cs);

     cs.AddPage(&pageKeyboard);     

     pageKeyboard.AddCategories(pCommandBars->m_pDesignerControls);

     CXTPCustomizeMenusPage pageMenus(&cs);

     cs.AddPage(&pageMenus);

     CXTPCustomizeOptionsPage pageOptions(&cs);

     cs.AddPage(&pageOptions);

     CXTPCustomizeCommandsPage* pCommands = cs.GetCommandsPage();

     pCommands->AddCategories(pCommandBars->m_pDesignerControls);

     cs.SetActivePage(nSelectedPage);

     cs.DoModal();

}

Just remember to export your resources from the CommandBars Designer so you can load them into your application. I Hope this helps some of those searching the forums.

Lewis