[B.Hooijenga]

Hello Thomas,

In the VipExamples there is a ribbonMDIDemo.
It demonstrates the ribbon well.

I have a question.
In the TaskWindow package of the demo the TaskMenu.menu has gone.
But in the application a "pseudo-TaskWindow.menu" is visible.
It is not neccesary and I want to get rid of it.
If that is possible: what do I have to do?

Kind regards,

Ben

[B.Hooijenga]

Hello Thomas,

I might have found an answer to my question.
MDI can not be used if taskwindow has no menu.
In the RibbonMDIdemo this is solved by making a (task)menu with the help of:

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class predicates
    mkMenu : (layout Layout) -> menuItem* Menu.

Then we can use the menu in the program.
for instance:

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menuEnable(Cmd:menuTag, false)

In this way I can live with the (task)menu.

Greetings
Ben

[Thomas Linder Puls]

Thank you for answering your own question; it makes it much easier for me .

However, the mentioned restriction is only enforced by the vpi-library. Windows itself doesn't require menus on MDI applications. In next major release (i.e. vip 12) this restriction will be removed.

(PS there are no release plans for vip 12).

[B.Hooijenga]

Hello Thomas,


You are welcome.

For this moment your answer leaves me with the question.
How to make a new MDI project that uses the ribbonControl?

What I tried is this:
make a normal GUI (MDI) application.

Then
deleted the taskMenu.menu.
deleted the toolbar modules
replaced taskwindow.pro by the taskwindow from the MDIRibbonDemo
commenting in the taskwindow.pack: %#include @"pfc\vpi\vpiToolbar\vpiToolbar.ph"

I got a lot of complaints from the compiler during the process.
But by rebuilding_all several times it eventually seems to work.

It is a very ugly method but in awaiting version VIP12 I have to do something.
If you know of a more elegant way (apart of VIP12) I would be pleased to hear.

Kind greetings

Ben

[Thomas Linder Puls]

We have never made a template for this. And without this I think the simplest way to do it is by copying the demo program.

Notice that there is a "Copy and Open ..." option in the context menu on projects in the "welcome" dialog. (I hope it works; I have actually never tried it myself ).