Adding a glyph to backstage or ribbon UI is not a great user experience

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Adding a glyph to backstage or ribbon UI is not a great user experience
How many times must one give permission? 
bobcalco




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Every time I add a glyph to a UI component in the backstage or ribbon, I have to give permission multiple times to apply the property to a slew of subcomponents. Right now I'm counting about 20+ times I have to click Yes to a popup, for each image I add. This is terribly annoying.

At the end of it, I get a System.Drawing popup error "Property cannot be null: font" - I have no idea of what component this setting is supposedly null. It goes away, but is yet another popup I have to click.

This is in the latest VS2022 on the latest AddInExpress version.

Any advice?
Posted 13 Mar, 2022 10:54:46 Top
bobcalco




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OK I just went through this again adding a Glyph to a BackstageTaskFormTaskGroup, had to click like 30 times, and then the IDE crashed and I lost that work. No bueno! Help!
Posted 13 Mar, 2022 13:05:15 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Bob,

We are solving internal difficulties trying to create a test environment and reproduce the issue.

Once I have news from our guys I'll let you know.

Regards from Poland (CET),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 15 Mar, 2022 03:01:45 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Bob,

We've reproduced the issue. I'll send you a note when I have a fix.

Regards from Poland (CET),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 15 Mar, 2022 09:03:51 Top
bobcalco




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Any progress on this one yet?

I've stripped my backstage to bare bones in the meanwhile.
Posted 06 Apr, 2022 11:25:18 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Bob,

I expect to have some news this week.

Regards from Poland (CET),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 11 Apr, 2022 05:06:04 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Bob,

I've got these links on an intermediate build that fixes this issue for us. Please let me know if that build fixes the issue for you. In my case the issue was reproducible when assigning a new value to the Glyph property by importing a new icon.

Standard:
https://add-in-express.com/files/adx10netsetup/adxnet-v1001-b4704-vs-std.zip

Professional:
https://add-in-express.com/files/adx10netsetup/adxnet-v1001-b4704-vs-pro.zip

Premium:
https://add-in-express.com/files/adx10netsetup/adxnet-v1001-b4704-vs-pre.zip

Regards from Poland (CEST),

Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 19 Apr, 2022 03:33:59 Top
bobcalco




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Thanks, Andrei!

As soon as I get our V1 out the door I will review the pre-build binaries. The UX I ended up with for V1 on the backstage was... vastly pared down but workable so I'll see if I can get fancier in the next release. :)

- Bob
Posted 20 Apr, 2022 07:14:09 Top