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Add or Remove CommandBar MDI Buttons

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/23/2008

You can add or remove MDI buttons that control the child windows in a MDI application. The CommandBars.SetFlags method is used to apply one of the flags from the XTPMenuBarFlags enumeration. Menu bar with the system MDI popup added Menu bar with th...

Add Multi-Language Support to your CommandBars

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/23/2008

Command Bars supports up to 32 different languages. CommandBars multi-language support will translate all static strings that the developer can not change such as the text on the customize dialog. All editable strings will not be translated as they c...

Removing ToolBars from the Context Menu

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/07/2008

When you right-click on any area of the CommandBars a Context Menu is displayed with the name of all the ToolBars that have been added. This menu allows you to hide or display a toolbar. By default, all ToolBars are added to this menu. To remove a To...

Setting the Size of ToolBar Icons when using Large Icons

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/03/2008

You can specify which size icon should be used when the CommandBars.Options.LargeIcon property is set to True. To do this, use the CommandBars.Options.SetIconSize method. Passing in a value of True for the first parameter specifies that the specified...

Displaying Text Below ToolBar Icons

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/03/2008

You can specify that the Caption of each ToolBar button be displayed under the ToolBar icon by setting the CommandBars.Options.ShowTextBelowIcons property to True. This will be applied to all toolbars. You also have the option of individually setting...

Hiding the ActiveMenuBar (Menu at the Top)

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/02/2008

The ActiveMenuBar is the only CommandBar that is displayed by default, even if no items are added. There might be times when only toolbars are needed, in these cases the ActiveMenuBar can be hidden. The CommandBars contains a separate property to gai...

Changing the Popup Menu Icon Size

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 02/02/2008

You can change the size of the icons that appear in popup menus independently from the toolbar icon size. To do this the SetPopupIconSize method is used. You simply specify the width and height of the icon size you wish to use in the popup menus. The...

Changing Popup Menu Animation Style

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 01/31/2008

You can configure how your menus will be displayed using animation effects. You can choose from one of several predefined effects that include Random, Unfold, Slide, Fade and None. The code below will apply the Unfold animation the the menus when th...

Creating an Intelligent Menu

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 01/31/2008

An Intelligent Menu is a menu that has "Infrequently used Commands" that remain hidden when the popup menu is displayed. The infrequently used commands will remain hidden for a short delay or until the user clicks on the chevron button at the bottom...

Disabling Luna Colors When using the Office 2003 Theme

by Mike Palmatier Visual Basic 6 Created on 01/31/2008

By default, when the Office 2003 theme is used the Luna Colors for the currently set system theme will be used to color the Commandbars. Luna colors are the Blue, Silver, and Olive themes used in Windows XP. If you application is running on Windows X...

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