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I need to add an edit mask to a RibbonEditBox. I see from the documentation that it's not supported. Has anyone found a workaround? Also, are there any plans to add this functionality by ComponentOne?

 Thanks in advance.

We plan to add the RibbonMaskedEditBox component in the next version.
With the current version you can embed the standard MaskedTextBox
control into the RibbonControlHost.

Regards,

-Andrey

Andrey:

Thanks for the quick response. I'm not familiar with the RibbonControlHost. I searched online help and the forums and found only an example in VB. Can you point me to any documentation and some C# sample code.

 

Thanks in advance. 

You may download a C# sample using the following link:

http://download3.componentone.com/pub/Net/c1ribbon/misc/ControlHostDemo.zip

Here is an except from the readme file about RibbonControlHost:

=======================================================
Ribbon Build Number [2.0.20082.84] Released: [March 25, 2008]
=======================================================

- Added the RibbonControlHost element. It allows to embed
an arbitrary control into the C1Ribbon.

For example, let's add the TextBox control to a ribbon
group. We have to define the following class:

VB:

Public Class TextBoxHost
Inherits C1.Win.C1Ribbon.RibbonControlHost

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New(New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox())
End Sub

End Class

C#:

public class TextBoxHost : C1.Win.C1Ribbon.RibbonControlHost
{
public TextBoxHost()
: base(new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox())
{
}
}

Now we should build the project and open a form with the
C1Ribbon control in the designer.

Open the action floatie for the RibbonGroup, then select
"Add ControlHost". This will open a dialog box where you
should type the class name of our control host, such as
"RibbonApplication1.TextBoxHost". When you click the OK
button the control will be added to the ribbon group.

Next time, when you want to add the TextBoxHost element
you don't have to type its name. The name of this class
can be selected from the drop-down list in the "Adding
RibbonControlHost" dialog box.

The RibbonControlHost class publishes the standard
properties and events of the hosted control. To access
other properties, methods, and events of the hosted
control use the RibbonControlHost.Control property.

It is also possible to override methods such as
RibbonControlHost.OnSubscribeControlEvents to handle
events raised by the hosted control. You can put custom
functionality into properties to enhance the hosted control.
=======================================================

Hope it will help.

Regards,

-Andrey

 Hello,

I have C1Ribbon 2.0.20082.93, VS2005, .NET 2.x. When I do Add ControlHost from the RibbonGroup level, it crashes my VS2005.

This happens in the ControlHostDemo solution. When I go and try to debug when I get this message it says that "one of the types could not be loaded". 

Any idea what may be going wrong?

Thanks.

Regards,

Georgi 

Hi Georgi,

Thank you for reporting this problem. It must be fixed in the next build of C1Ribbon:

http://download3.componentone.com/pub/Net/c1ribbon/misc/C1Ribbon.2_2.0.20082.101.zip

Please let me know if this won't help.

Regards,

-Andrey

 Hi Andrey,

Thanks, that worked!

If I don't use the web browser control in the ControlHostDemo, would I need AxInterop.SHDocVw.DLL and Interop.SHDocVw.DLL as part of my deployment? Does the ControlHost functionality in C1Ribbon depend on any of these DLLs?

Thanks.

Regards,

Georgi 

> Does the ControlHost functionality in C1Ribbon depend on any of these DLLs?

No. It does not depend on these dlls. They are used by the SHDocVw control.
C1.Win.C1Ribbon.2.dll is the only dll that is required at runtime.

Regards,

-Andrey

 Hi Andrey,

Using the Add ControlHost, is it possible to create a RibbonControlHost control that inherits the same painting behaviour as the current default paint (smooth animation of the current visual style stretched image as a background of a ribbon TAB). Right now, whatever the background of the custom RibbonControlHost control is, that's what's shown on the Ribbon Tab.

 I am just looking for a way to plug-in custom Ribbon Tabs and abstract certain Tabs that are common for a Ribbon. In particular, we have a Search Ribbon that consists of 2 Tabs - Search Control and Search Criteria. I'd like to keep the Search Control common for all our screens/forms and only plug in custom Search Criteria Tabs into a Ribbon. What's the best way to do something like this?

I suppose I can have a UserControl that holds a default SearchRibbon that has an empty protected Search Criteria Tab and a private Search Control Tab and extend that as concrete ribbons with concrete Search Criteria added to the respected Tab? Any thoughts?

Thanks. I appreciate your time.

Regards,

Georgi
 

Hi Georgi,

> Using the Add ControlHost, is it possible to create a RibbonControlHost control that inherits
> the same painting behaviour as the current default paint (smooth animation of the current visual
> style stretched image as a background of a ribbon TAB). Right now, whatever the background
> of the custom RibbonControlHost control is, that's what's shown on the Ribbon Tab.

There are problems with smooth animation. It would be better to set the HotTransitionEffect
property of C1Ribbon to False. The correct background appears if you set the BackColor
of the user control to Transparent. See the attached sample for example.

> I am just looking for a way to plug-in custom Ribbon Tabs and abstract certain Tabs that are
> common for a Ribbon. In particular, we have a Search Ribbon that consists of 2 Tabs - Search
> Control and Search Criteria. I'd like to keep the Search Control common for all our
> screens/forms and only plug in custom Search Criteria Tabs into a Ribbon. What's the best
> way to do something like this?

In this case I would rather avoid using a UserControl. It may be more convenient to create
the Search Criteria tab programmatically from a virtual method that will be overridden in
derived forms. The Search Control tab can also be created programmatically for easy
maintenance in the future.

Regards,

-Andrey