Comments on: Sharing RibbonX controls across application-level (XLAM) add-ins http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/08/28/sharing-ribbonx-controls-across-application-level-xlam-add-ins/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: headtoadie http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/08/28/sharing-ribbonx-controls-across-application-level-xlam-add-ins/#comment-39174 headtoadie Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:34:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1492#comment-39174 <p>Question...I have two addins, an xll and an xlam. The xll is a third-party commercial application that adds a custom tab to the ribbon to control the functions contained in the xll addin. What I want to do is hide that xll created tab and write my own in via xlam.</p> <p>Using a hex editor I can clearly read the entire xml ribbon schema in the xll, so I have all the id's. What I can't figure out is how to tell my xlam addin to to set the xll ribbon tab to visible="false". Is this even possible?</p> Question…I have two addins, an xll and an xlam. The xll is a third-party commercial application that adds a custom tab to the ribbon to control the functions contained in the xll addin. What I want to do is hide that xll created tab and write my own in via xlam.

Using a hex editor I can clearly read the entire xml ribbon schema in the xll, so I have all the id’s. What I can’t figure out is how to tell my xlam addin to to set the xll ribbon tab to visible=”false”. Is this even possible?

]]> By: sam http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/08/28/sharing-ribbonx-controls-across-application-level-xlam-add-ins/#comment-20790 sam Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:10:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1492#comment-20790 <p>Hello Tushar.</p> <p>Great Post...most of it went straingt above ....:-)</p> <p>I cannot belive that a simple task of Adding a menu or a button now requires you to be an MVP :-)</p> <p>The more I read about Excel 12.... the more I am convinced that I should wait for Excel 20<br> by which time things like customisation of menus and toolbards will be upgraded to what it is today :-)</p> <p>Regards<br> Sam</p> Hello Tushar.

Great Post…most of it went straingt above ….:-)

I cannot belive that a simple task of Adding a menu or a button now requires you to be an MVP :-)

The more I read about Excel 12…. the more I am convinced that I should wait for Excel 20
by which time things like customisation of menus and toolbards will be upgraded to what it is today :-)

Regards
Sam

]]> By: Mike Alexander http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2006/08/28/sharing-ribbonx-controls-across-application-level-xlam-add-ins/#comment-20783 Mike Alexander Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:16:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1492#comment-20783 <p>Hi Tushar, </p> <p>>>I thought of building an utility myself but in addition to the various technical issues >>involved, it would be something that no one would use once Microsoft came up with its own >>capability.</p> <p>That's *IF* Microsoft comes up this its own capability. </p> <p>I have built my own Custom UI Builder(link below)to suite my needs. It's not elegant, but it does the simple task of building groups based on entries in a table.</p> <p>I encourage you or anyone else smarter than I am to take my utility apart and build on top of it to make a tool that allows for some of the more advanced UI tasks you are writing about. I can garauntee that it will be worth the time, as people will definately use it. </p> <p><a href="http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/Custom_UI_Builder.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/Custom_UI_Builder.zip</a></p> Hi Tushar,

>>I thought of building an utility myself but in addition to the various technical issues >>involved, it would be something that no one would use once Microsoft came up with its own >>capability.

That’s *IF* Microsoft comes up this its own capability.

I have built my own Custom UI Builder(link below)to suite my needs. It’s not elegant, but it does the simple task of building groups based on entries in a table.

I encourage you or anyone else smarter than I am to take my utility apart and build on top of it to make a tool that allows for some of the more advanced UI tasks you are writing about. I can garauntee that it will be worth the time, as people will definately use it.

http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/Custom_UI_Builder.zip

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