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semantique
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Hi Andrei,
one solution for us might be the following:
As you can see in the picture below, some of the buttons do an icon and a small drop down arrow next to it.
Is it possible to customize the command that is executed if the user clicks on the drop down arrow?
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 07:53:40
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Andrei Smolin
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Hi Vincent,
semantique writes:
(i) place 2 buttons next to each other on installation
If this is critical, the easiest way is to use a custom toolbar. Otherwise, it requires a lot of research work with no guarantee of success. Specifically, you cannot be sure that the buttons will be shown together when your add-on starts for the first time.
semantique writes:
(ii) change button icons programmatically/dynamically
If this is critical, the easiest way is to use a custom toolbar. Otherwise, it requires a lot of research work with no guarantee of success.
semantique writes:
(iii) occupy the LEAST space possible
If this requirement is critical, you'd better use the built-in toolbar; we were unable to position a custom toolbar at the first start of the add-on except for using the NewRow constant.
As you see, there's no ideal solution for your requirements. I think, you'll have to sacrifice something.
Regards from Belarus (GMT+2),
Andrei Smolin
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 08:44:05
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Andrei Smolin
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Vincent,
That's the same area: intercepting controls on the built-in toolbar. This requires a lot of research work with no guarantee of success.
Regards from Belarus (GMT+2),
Andrei Smolin
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 08:45:22
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semantique
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Hi Andrei,
the last point, i.e.
still seems the most promising. Could you give us an indication of how much time/cost would be involved of finding a custom solution for this?
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:12:10
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Juan Carlos Ruiz Pacheco
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:15:18
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semantique
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Hi Juan,
thanks a lot for the link and for digging through our posts :D Very much appreciated. If you've got any other ideas on the topics we raised, we're also very happy to sub-contract.
Thanks and bests, |
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:24:19
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Andrei Smolin
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Hi Juan Carlos,
Have you tried this approach with other IE versions? Have you tried doing this in two add-ons? At Tool Button position, they express cautios scepticism...
Regards from Belarus (GMT+2),
Andrei Smolin
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:27:44
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Andrei Smolin
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Vincent,
semantique writes:
Could you give us an indication of how much time/cost would be involved of finding a custom solution for this?
Tomorrow, a responsible person will contact you on this matter.
Regards from Belarus (GMT+2),
Andrei Smolin
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:41:40
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Juan Carlos Ruiz Pacheco
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Hello Andrei,
you rigth, for sure if you use some of this things that are officially unsupported by microsoft you need to be carefull about the restrictions:
1- Microsoft could change this registry keys whenever they want, next IE versión, next IE8 Pacth etc
2- My example is just for IE8, in my case I could use it with no problems because my add-in will just packed with a IE8 personalized distribution, no way to use it with other IE versions.
3- As well not supported features like this are not recommended, is usual some software packages use this features on other Windows unsupported functions.
final note: this could be usefull and you can make very interesting things, but use it under your own responsability, only you can verify what kind of use or target your Add-in would have.
If your Add-in for corporate users, or your Add-in is just for a fixed IE version etc, you can have a little of trust in your component, other ways... may be not... only you can meassure it with your real bussiness requeriment restrictions.Juan Carlos Ruiz
Microsoft MVP Visual C#
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 09:45:14
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Dmitry Kostochko
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Hello Vincent,
Andrei Smolin wrote:
Tomorrow, a responsible person will contact you on this matter.
I will reply today. In order to do this, or more exactly in order to try to do this, a good C++ programmer is needed, which is missing in our custom development team. Why C++? Because the mentioned command bar is, in fact, the old good ToolbarWindow32 and it is better to communicate with it in its own language. Theoretically, it could be done in a .NET language but to communicate with Win32 components you need to know their properties, methods and so on, which our .NET developers, naturally, don't know well enough.
So, considering the above we cannot take on your project. Sorry for taking your time and thank you for understanding. |
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Posted 22 Jun, 2010 11:51:02
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