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From: Jonathan Wood on 5 Sep 2008 12:48 Did anyone ever figure out how to add a drop-down menu button to the new MFC ribbon bar, so I can have a button on the ribbon that drops down a menu? And while I'm at it, did anyone ever find a good source of documentation for the new classes? Apparently, Microsoft feels it's job is done as long as it documents every class, method and property even if the terse descriptions provide little more than the object names themselves. And how they decided that the best way to describe a ribbon component is sans an image completely eludes me. Thanks. -- Jonathan Wood SoftCircuits Programming http://www.softcircuits.com
From: ChrisN on 6 Sep 2008 07:17 On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:48:48 -0600, "Jonathan Wood" <jwood(a)softcircuits.com> wrote: Hi Jonathan, >Did anyone ever figure out how to add a drop-down menu button to the new MFC >ribbon bar, so I can have a button on the ribbon that drops down a menu? Have you looked at the RibbonGadgets sample application? There's a button named Menu Button on the Buttons tab. Is this what you mean? In the source code, see CMainFrame::Add_Category1() and the IDR_RIBBON_MENU_1 resource. >And while I'm at it, did anyone ever find a good source of documentation for >the new classes? Apparently, Microsoft feels it's job is done as long as it >documents every class, method and property even if the terse descriptions >provide little more than the object names themselves. And how they decided >that the best way to describe a ribbon component is sans an image completely >eludes me. I agree. The MFC Feature Pack documentation is awful, and nowhere near Microsoft's usual standard. Chris
From: Jonathan Wood on 6 Sep 2008 11:18 Thanks Chris. I haven't seen that example but will take a look. -- Jonathan Wood SoftCircuits Programming http://www.softcircuits.com "ChrisN" <chrisn303(a)nospam.googlemail.com> wrote in message news:93o4c4tqvokmfl75p9s315csj7vfjn4uqk(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:48:48 -0600, "Jonathan Wood" > <jwood(a)softcircuits.com> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > >>Did anyone ever figure out how to add a drop-down menu button to the new >>MFC >>ribbon bar, so I can have a button on the ribbon that drops down a menu? > > Have you looked at the RibbonGadgets sample application? There's a > button named Menu Button on the Buttons tab. Is this what you mean? > > In the source code, see CMainFrame::Add_Category1() and the > IDR_RIBBON_MENU_1 resource. > >>And while I'm at it, did anyone ever find a good source of documentation >>for >>the new classes? Apparently, Microsoft feels it's job is done as long as >>it >>documents every class, method and property even if the terse descriptions >>provide little more than the object names themselves. And how they decided >>that the best way to describe a ribbon component is sans an image >>completely >>eludes me. > > I agree. The MFC Feature Pack documentation is awful, and nowhere near > Microsoft's usual standard. > > Chris
From: Jonathan Wood on 6 Sep 2008 11:37 Okay, I give up. Searching for RibbonGadgets leads me to a Microsoft page that describes (very briefly) this sample. There's no download button but there is a link. If I click the link, it takes me to a page where I again need to drill down to what I want. I end up with a button to download a C++ example collection--apparently I need to download the entire thing or nothing at all. So I download it, run the installation that seems to simply copy a zip file to some deep, hard-to-find folder. I finally found the folder but spent 5 minutes searching for RibbonGadgets (the Windows search never works quite right for me so I had to just browse) and I don't see it. Microsoft has some major usability issues with their documentation and that includes the samples. So what's the secret. How do I find this example? Sheesh! -- Jonathan Wood SoftCircuits Programming http://www.softcircuits.com "ChrisN" <chrisn303(a)nospam.googlemail.com> wrote in message news:93o4c4tqvokmfl75p9s315csj7vfjn4uqk(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:48:48 -0600, "Jonathan Wood" > <jwood(a)softcircuits.com> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > >>Did anyone ever figure out how to add a drop-down menu button to the new >>MFC >>ribbon bar, so I can have a button on the ribbon that drops down a menu? > > Have you looked at the RibbonGadgets sample application? There's a > button named Menu Button on the Buttons tab. Is this what you mean? > > In the source code, see CMainFrame::Add_Category1() and the > IDR_RIBBON_MENU_1 resource. > >>And while I'm at it, did anyone ever find a good source of documentation >>for >>the new classes? Apparently, Microsoft feels it's job is done as long as >>it >>documents every class, method and property even if the terse descriptions >>provide little more than the object names themselves. And how they decided >>that the best way to describe a ribbon component is sans an image >>completely >>eludes me. > > I agree. The MFC Feature Pack documentation is awful, and nowhere near > Microsoft's usual standard. > > Chris
From: ChrisN on 6 Sep 2008 16:38 On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:37:06 -0600, "Jonathan Wood" <jwood(a)softcircuits.com> wrote: >So what's the secret. How do I find this example? Hmm, this is odd. I originally found the samples after installing the MFC Feature Pack for VS2008. The samples were in a zip file named AllVCLanguageSamples.zip here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Samples\1033 Inside this zip file was a folder that contained all the Feature Pack samples: C++\MFC\Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack I've since uninstalled the Feature Pack and VS2008 and reinstalled VS2008 + SP1, and found that this zip file no longer contains the Feature Pack samples. Anyway, I found that the samples can be downloaded separately here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9761BB57-F066-4B70-9318-3965C5E68AAD > Sheesh! You're not wrong! Chris
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