How to force the Ribbon to update its controls

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   I use a SplitButtonPopup in a Ribbon and want to make the last clicked menu item the default for clicking the button itself.

To achieve that I reset the ID, Caption, Prompt and IconID of that control after it was clicked.
As the caption text of the different menu entries have different length, the button text get clipped when a longer text replaces a shorter text. Resizing the main window where the Ribbon lives in does redraw the button with its correct size.

I tried InvalidateRect(NULL, TRUE) on the mainframe and the ribbon but that did not redraw the window.
Only SetWindowPos with +1 width and SetWindowPos with the old width did update the buttons size.

Is there another method to force redrawing ribbon controls?

Resizing the main window just does not feel right...

Thanks,
Sven

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SvenC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 79	Post Options Post Reply Quote SvenC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to force the Ribbon to update its controls Posted: 18 April 2011 at 10:10am
	I use a SplitButtonPopup in a Ribbon and want to make the last clicked menu item the default for clicking the button itself. To achieve that I reset the ID, Caption, Prompt and IconID of that control after it was clicked. As the caption text of the different menu entries have different length, the button text get clipped when a longer text replaces a shorter text. Resizing the main window where the Ribbon lives in does redraw the button with its correct size. I tried InvalidateRect(NULL, TRUE) on the mainframe and the ribbon but that did not redraw the window. Only SetWindowPos with +1 width and SetWindowPos with the old width did update the buttons size. Is there another method to force redrawing ribbon controls? Resizing the main window just does not feel right... Thanks, Sven
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markr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 443	Post Options Post Reply Quote markr Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 April 2011 at 10:02pm
	Hi, have you tried: GetCommandBars()->RedrawCommandBars();

SvenC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 79	Post Options Post Reply Quote SvenC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 April 2011 at 1:32am
	Thanks mark, no I didn't find that method. And yes, it does redraw the popup control Thank you, Sven
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