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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...

Hiding a ToolBar

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

To access the ToolBars via code, the CommandBars collection is used. The CommandBars collection is a collection of CommandBar objects. The collection will contain a CommandBar object for each toolbar that is created. The collection is a "1" based col...

Add a splitter popup button that doesn't disappear

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

If you have created a splitter popup button as shown below, it will disappear when the ‘Reset Toolbar’ button is clicked. pStandardBar->GetControls()->Add(xtpControlSplitButtonPopup, ID_BUTTON_POPUP); If you use Customizable toolbars ...

Handling ON_COMMAND and ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI messages

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

(Part I) using ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI:Command Bars supports the classic MFC updating mechanism using the ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI macro. For example, to make a menu or toolbar command item checked you would add the following code: BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainF...

Add controls inheritance to your application

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

If you need to add new functionality to standard Command Bar controls (CXTPControlButton, CXTPControlPopup, CXTPControlComboBox, CXTPControlEdit) you must create a new class inherited from one of these and override some virtual methods. This tutorial...

Office Style Toolbars and Menus

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

The following is a tutorial on how to create an MDI application using the Visual Studio 6.0 Application Wizard that will have Office style menus and toolbars. The same technique can be used for later versions of Visual Studio .NET as well. Create a ...

Office Style Toolbar and Menu Customization

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

The following is a tutorial on how to create add customization to your applications toolbars and menus to your application. This tutorial assumes that you have already created an application that uses office style toolbars and menus. For a tutorial o...

Create a custom theme for your application

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

You can create a custom theme for your application by deriving a class from any of the theme classes available in the toolkit. Create a double gripper theme similar to Visual Studio 6.0. Create a new class derived from one of the predefined theme...

Add intelligent menus

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

The following is a tutorial on how to add intelligent menus to your application. This tutorial assumes that you have already created an application that uses Office style toolbars and menus. For a tutorial on how to create an application that uses Of...

Add MDI Menus customization

by Kirk Stowell Visual C++ Created on 11/16/2007

Command Bars has three ways for developers to add MDI Menu customization menus. This tutorial assumes that you have already created an application with customization. Click here for more information about this. Standard MDI Menu customization: This...

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