Using Ribbon in Inspector window

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Hi,

Firstly let me thank you for your feedback in this group thus far. I

really appreciate it.

I managed to write a COM Add-in in C++ that has a toolbar with buttons

in every Explorer/Inspector window.

My architecture is as follows:

CAddin - implements _IDTExtensibility2, has handlers for

OnNewExplorer, OnNewInspector

CExplorerWrapper - wrapper class for explorer events

(OnSelectionChange, OnClose, ...)

CInspectorWrapper - wrapper class for inspector events (OnActivate,

OnClose)

CToolbarWrapper - wrapper class for the toolbar buttons

(OnButton1Click, SetEnabled, SetVisible, ...)

Now I decided to use ribbons for 2007+ versions of outlook.

Unfortunately I had to break my OO design here...

My CAddin class newly implements IRibbonExtensibility.

GetCustomUI gets fired and returns XML for the

"Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Read" Inspector window.

So far so good. I had to implement the OnRibbonButtonClick events

inside my CAddin (don't know how to do this inside CInspectorWrapper)

- this is a pain as it breaks my OO concept, but it works. I simply

cast the RibbonControl->GetContext() to Inspector type. If someone

knew how to do it inside the CInspectorWrapper then please advise - I

can post source code extracts if necessary.

But I don't know how to set the state of the ribbon buttons (enabled/

disabled) inside CInspector::OnActivate. The state of these buttons

can differ in every CInspectorWrapper instance - is there a special

event callback I need to implement or can I do it somehow using my

IRibbonUI pointer that I got from OnLoad handler?
 
I think I might have figured it out already ... The only think I am

really not happy about is the fact that all of the ribbon stuff gets

handled inside my CAddin class. It should really be the job of the

individual CInspectorWrappers. Is it possible to do it that way? Right

now I seem to have quite a lot of unnecessary nearly duplicate code

around in separate classes (once for toolbars and the other time for

ribbons) This could one day be a debugger's nightmare ...
 
The requirement from MS is that the interface handling and callbacks for the

ribbon must be in the same class as the class that implements the

IDTExtensibility interface. So OO design or not that's what you have to do.

What I do is implement a RibbonClicker() method in the Inspector wrapper

class. I call that method in the wrapper class to handle anything that is

specific to that Inspector, such as the states of toggle controls. In the

ribbon callback I identify which Inspector matches the Inspector in the

wrapper class and then I know which wrapper class to call to. Luckily

Outlook 2007 Inspectors can be compared directly using an equality test (==

or for VB using the Is operator), so finding the correct wrapper class is

easy.

I pass in any needed arguments from the ribbon callbacks to my

RibbonClicker() methods, so anything they need in the way of information is

available to them.

<tnemec78@googlemail.com> wrote in message

news:22b35ffd-2c3e-4277-98fe-26a09a9747aa@n8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
> I think I might have figured it out already ... The only think I am
> really not happy about is the fact that all of the ribbon stuff gets
> handled inside my CAddin class. It should really be the job of the
> individual CInspectorWrappers. Is it possible to do it that way? Right
> now I seem to have quite a lot of unnecessary nearly duplicate code
> around in separate classes (once for toolbars and the other time for
> ribbons) This could one day be a debugger's nightmare ...
 
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