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Create Ribbon control like Visual Styles combo box

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By Adam Nagy

You can use the RibbonGallery control to achieve that:

using System;         using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;    using Autodesk.Windows;          [assembly:CommandClass(typeof(TestProject.Commands))]         namespace TestProject    {      public class Commands      {        [CommandMethod("CreateMyGallery")]        public void CreateMyGallery()        {          RibbonControl ribbon = ComponentManager.Ribbon;               RibbonTab tab = new RibbonTab();          tab.Name = "MyTab";          tab.Title = "My Tab";          tab.Id = "MyTabId";          ribbon.Tabs.Add(tab);               RibbonPanelSource panelSrc = new RibbonPanelSource();          panelSrc.Name = "MyPanel";          panelSrc.Title = "My Panel";          panelSrc.Id = "MyPanelId";               RibbonGallery gallery = new RibbonGallery();          gallery.Name = "MyGallery";          gallery.Id = "MyGalleryId";               RibbonButton button1 = new RibbonButton();          button1.Name = "MyButton";          button1.Text = "My Button";          button1.Id = "MyButtonId";          gallery.Items.Add(button1);               RibbonButton button2 = new RibbonButton();          button2.Name = "MyOtherButton";          button2.Text = "My Other Button";          button2.Id = "MyOtherButtonId";          gallery.Items.Add(button2);               gallery.DisplayMode = GalleryDisplayMode.ComboBox;                panelSrc.Items.Add(gallery);                 RibbonPanel panel = new RibbonPanel();          panel.Source = panelSrc;               tab.Panels.Add(panel);        }      }    }

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8 responses to “Create Ribbon control like Visual Styles combo box”

  1. Anton Avatar
    Anton

    The ribbon variable should be tested for NULL to prevent AutoCAD 2013 to crash
    RibbonControl ribbon = ComponentManager.Ribbon;
    if (ribbon == null)
    {
    ed.WriteMessage(“\nNo Ribbon”);
    return;
    }

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  2. Adam Nagy Avatar
    Adam Nagy

    Thank you for the commment, Anton!

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  3. Veli V. Avatar
    Veli V.

    How can I populate RibbonCombo with text values using .NET API?
    I have not find working example yet…
    Private Sub InitRibbonCombo(ByRef cbo As Autodesk.Windows.RibbonCombo, ByVal lst As List(Of String))
    If cbo Is Nothing Then Return
    cbo.Items.Clear()
    If Not lst Is Nothing OrElse lst.Count > 0 Then
    For Each sName As String In lst
    cbo.Items.Add(CreateRibCboItem(sName, cbo.Items.Count))
    Next sName
    End If
    End Sub
    Private Function CreateRibCboItem(ByVal sItem As String, ByVal iIndex As Integer) As Autodesk.Windows.RibbonButton
    Dim ribCboBut01 As New Autodesk.Windows.RibbonButton
    ribCboBut01.Text = sItem
    ribCboBut01.Id = “Id_RibCboItem” + CStr(iIndex)
    ribCboBut01.ShowText = True
    Return ribCboBut01
    End Function

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  4. Adam Nagy Avatar
    Adam Nagy

    Hi there,
    As you can see in the above example you actually need to create a RibbonGallery with ComboBox display mode to create a control that looks and behave like a combo box. I seem to remember that it’s not suggested to use the ComboBox class, but I could be wrong.
    Any reason why you do not want to use the RibbonGallery control?
    Adam

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  5. Veli V. Avatar
    Veli V.

    Reason was that I try to put text value rows in RibbonCombo control using .NET API but I couldn´t find the way to do that. With ObjectARX I can do that using COM API but not using .NET API. I can also be wrong about that cause I have not yet found the way. =)
    -Veli

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  6. dba Avatar
    dba

    Hello Adam,
    I created some WPF Usercontrols (based on Fenton Webb’s Performance Gauges) and added successfully to my Project.
    In fact I need the tabs as sort of “contextual”, by using the impliedselectionchanged event (had no better idea to filter selection…) showing/hiding them
    The CUI-Loading in my case is suboptimal (although I have no other option by now)
    So the question is, how to get the registered Ribboncomponent (HKLM…\Ribboncontrols) programatically.
    Tried (with others):
    dim rci as new Ribboncompositeitem (“keyname as in resDic”)
    dim dt as windows.datatemplate (gettype (myUSERcontrol))
    ci.content= dt.loadcontent
    …
    this ci I was able to add to a PanelSource…
    actually I tried to rebuild the “XAML” construct. with no luck (not surprised)
    OK, I think the control shall be “loaded” anyway by the time I want to access it via my plugin so I needed to find a collection, where I could grab it from, or so.
    I may be complete wrong on this…:(
    I guess Acad is somewhere aware of the Components (since I can access them via CUI-Editor) I just did not find out the right way, to use them programatically (Fenton wrote in his Au-Paper (CP114-5, 2009) that “x:UID” shall used to get the control, but I had no luck so far).
    My goal was to create some Ribbontabs, containing Usercontrols which I can manipulate then in the way your Code does here with “standard items” (meaning objects provided by autodesk.Windows namespace)
    Thanks in advance!
    Daniel

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  7. Balaji Avatar
    Balaji

    Hi Daniel,
    Iam looking into this query and will get back to you soon.
    Regards,
    Balaji

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  8. Balaji Avatar
    Balaji

    Hi Daniel,
    Sorry for the delay. There was an issue posting comments in the blog.
    If you have access to the xaml file, then it can be directly loaded in the ribbon panel as one of the item.
    Here is a sample code :

    Uri uri = new Uri("/RibbonCustCtrlDataBinding;component/MyRibbonControl.xaml", System.UriKind.Relative);
    ResourceDictionary resDict = (ResourceDictionary)System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(uri);
    ribSourcePanel.Items.Add((RibbonItem)resDict["ribbonCompositeItemKey"]);

    In this code the “ribbonCompositeItemKey” is the value specified in your xaml file as x:Key.
    You can refer to the xaml file from the WPF webcast by my colleague Fenton Webb.
    Also, you may be interested in this Devblog post that explains the way to create a contextual ribbon tab using the ribbon runtime API.
    http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2012/04/displaying-a-contextual-tab-upon-entity-selection-using-ribbon-runtime-api.html
    Regards,
    Balaji

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