Re: CMFCRibbon Menu Buttons

From:
"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:18:11 -0600
Message-ID:
<uuJ$HPDEJHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Thanks Chris. I haven't seen that example but will take a look.

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Jonathan Wood
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"ChrisN" <chrisn303@nospam.googlemail.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:48:48 -0600, "Jonathan Wood"
<jwood@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

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