I am working in excel VSTO add-in.
In excel, having built-in tabs, groups, and controls in the ribbon. I need to disable the built-in controls in the excel.
For example, under View tab and under window group have Split control. I need to disable that Split control.
In above image, View is a built-in tab and Split control is a built-in control. I need to disable this split control.
I tried by using the idmso property. I'm not sure what the value of idmso property for Split control is.
How to disable/enable the built-in controls in excel c#?
You are not allowed to disable/enable built-in ribbon controls. Instead, you may consider repurposing ribbon controls, see Temporarily Repurpose Commands on the Office Fluent Ribbon for more information.
Also you may re-build the ribbon UI from scratch. In that case you will be responsible to disable/enabled controls.
Related
I have created add-in for Visio but I have some problem related to Custom Panel. For implementing Custom Panel in Visio I used solution described in next link:
How can you add a Custom Panel in a Visio 2013 add-in?
My Custom Panel contain TextBoxes and Buttons. Buttons work correct and I can type text into any TextBox but I CAN'T insert text by using shortcut(Ctrl+V). When I type Ctrl+V my text is inserted in new shape of opened document. Another commands like Ctrl+X Ctrl+A etc do not work too.
How can I resolve this problem?
Visio intercepts many keyboard events before they reach your add-in. It provides "KeystrokeMessageForAddon" event though. You could check how it can be used in one of my Visio projects (it is specialized a bit for browser control but I hope it will give you an idea)
https://github.com/nbelyh/HtmlFormData/blob/master/HtmlFormData/HtmlFormData/ShortcutManager.cs
I've been crashing my head over this problem for far too long... but I can't find any confortable solution.
I need to hide contextual tabs (i.e. TabTableToolsDesignExcel) from my custom ribbon. For normal tabs it is sufficient to create a tab with the same idMso from the designer but, with contextual tabs, this doesn't work. So anytime a user enter a table over a worksheet the contextual menu is shown.
Although I know it would work exporting to xml and creating all callbacks manually I'd really appreciate to avoid this way cos it requires a lot of effort...
Is there any trick to hide a contextual tabset or, even, to catch the context change event?
Thx in advance for your help.
You can create a tab with the same IdMso value, but! instead of declaring the visible property use the getVisible callback. It is possible only with the custom UI XML markup, not designer. The callback will be called when the tab is going to be shown. In the handler you can return false to hide the tab. Hope it helps.
You can read more about the Ribbon UI in the Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers article in MSDN.
Is it possible to handle events for built-in controls in Outlook and/or query their values?
I'm coding for Outlook 2010 and 2013. I would like to know when a user changes a value of a control on the ribbon and on the File/Info pane when composing an email and get the values of these controls.
The only way to do anything with the built-in Ribbon controls is to repurpose them.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd944181(v=office.12).aspx
This seems to have been asked several times on here with no real answer:
Accessing Ribbon Controls Programatically in an XML Ribbon
Office Ribbon: How to access a control when the ribbon was created using XML
If a ribbon is created using ribbon xml, as far as I can tell, there is no programmatic exposure of the components defined in that xml. The only obvious limited way to change the state of these components is to use something like an onAction, getContent, getImage event, and the IRibbonControl element offers very little for manipulating the element in question (not to mention, most of those functions only run once, when first rendered).
So I'm trying to find a way to programmatically access those xml ribbon elements.
There is no way to programmatically access Ribbon elements when using Ribbon XML. If you want to change the state of the Ribbon controls - you need to use IRibbonUI.Invalidate() to force a new rendering of the layout (potentially using properties that trigger different behaviors at rendering time via callbacks). This can be a good thing as you have more control over when drawing occurs if you are changing multiple items' state.
See related SO post on updating Ribbon UI control state.
If you want programmatic access to Ribbon elements, you should use the Ribbon Designer. However, as stated on MSDN, the designer doesn't support all customizations. Some speculate that the designer just wraps the Ribbon XML up for you under the hood.
You just have to learn the callback mechanism utilized by the Ribbon XML - there is no control tree for you to gain access to.
I'm trying to dynamically customize the built-in Ribbon Controls on an Office2007 ribbon by adding C# objects such as RibbonTab, RibbonGroup, RibbonControl to the Ribbon. I have been unsuccessfull in disabeling any existing built-in controls, however I can add my own group. Now i'm thinking that disabling or hiding existing ones not be possible.
If anyone been able to hide a built-in control using code or the designer using .NET VSTO Office 2007 development, can you please post the code you used?
Thanks!
Here is a Stackoverflow question that talks about overriding built-in ribbon commands. Here is an MSDN video that shows it as well.