I'm using the DockPanel Suite by Weifen Luo in a little project (webbrowser) and have managed to be able to create tabs and navigate the webbrowser element inside each tab.
But how am I able to change the tabs title/name when the page is navigating to another site?
Basically I just need to get into the current tabs form.
You can get the current tab by using DockPanel's ActiveContent method. For example:
Form myForm = myDockPanel.ActiveContent();
myForm.TabText = "Stack Overflow";
DockPanel.ActiveDocument and DockPanel.ActivePane can also be useful.
After having worked on this a few weeks (not 'till now though :P) I have to say, that this is currently not possible.
You can manage your own (assuming your Document Form is a specific class) by managing:
'FormClosing' and 'Activated' events
'Activated' set your own "active" document to 'this'.
'FormClosing' set your own "active" document to null.
FormClosing is just to catch the case where you are closing the last document. Activated is what manages everything else, like when a new document gets created and is made the active window, etc.
You can use a static global to manage focus. Then access it from anywhere else:
public partial class MyDocument : DockContent
{
public static MyDocument ActiveDocument { get; private set; }
I needed the ability to check which document was active, and set that document to active again after changing some UI elements that automatically reset the active tab, so I used some pieces from here and the DockPanel FAQ, and did some digging to figure out the answer to this problem:
public string GetActive()
{ //Verify if forms that dock in main window are already open
foreach (DockContent form in dockMain.Contents)
{
if (form.DockHandler.Pane.ActiveContent.DockHandler.Form.Name.ToString() == form.Name.ToString())
{
string formName = form.Name.ToString();
return formName;
}
}
return null;
}
And then in some other method you will call:
string activeForm = GetActive();
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I created a dialog class that inherited from JFace Dialog using Windows Builder. In that, I added some controls included a button and a JFace ListViewer. In widgetSelected() function of the button, I can get out the selected item in the ListViewer. But in `okPressed(), I cannot get this. I don't know why. Can you help me?
Thanks!
If you want to access UI elements in okPressed you must do so before calling super.okPressed() because that will close the dialog and dispose of the controls. So something like:
#Override
protected void okPressed()
{
IStructuredSelection sel = viewer.getStructuredSelection();
// TODO deal with selection
// Call super.okPressed() last
super.okPressed();
}
Alternatively save the selection when your widgetSelected is called.
I developed a VSTO 4 add-in for Excel. It works perfect, however, I have a button placed in the custom tab of its Ribbon control that is initially disabled.
After clicked other ribbon button in my custom tab, I need to enable the initially disabled button.
I tried with:
btnCancelar.Visible = true;
In the Click event of a button, but button is not shown. The strange thing is that when debugging, it still does not appear, but if a MessageBox is shown, the button get visible at last.
I don't understand this behaviour. How can I enable or disable a ribbon button dynamically by code?
I'm not sure what your language is used in your project, but I guess you can tranform it to your own language used. I'll show the example here in C#:
First you need to implement a so called Callback function in the RibbonXML definition:
<button id="buttonSomething" label="Content" size="large" getVisible="EnableControl"/>
then the next step is to implement the Callback function:
public bool EnableControl(IRibbonControl control)
{
return true; // visible ... false = invisible
}
VSTO will trigger the getVisible Callback and depending on the return value enable or disable the visible state (don't forget to remove any Visible property from the RibbonXML, otherwise the Callback is not triggered)
In case of the Ribbon Designer you need to make sure your Click signature is correct, the easies way to do that is by double clicking the button on the ribbon designer. This will create the Click method for you, for instance:
I created a Ribbon with the Ribbon designer and added two buttons. Double clicked the first button to get an empty method like below, and added the code.
private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
// Toggle button visibility and make sure the button is enabled
// Visible (obviously) makes it visible, while Enabled is grayed if
// false. You don't need this it is Enabled by default, so just for
// demo purposes
button2.Visible = !button2.Visible;
button2.Enabled = button2.Visible;
// Force Ribbon Invalidate ...
this.RibbonUI.Invalidate();
// Long running proces
}
This worked perfectly for me, so if it doesn't work for you please provide more details of your coding.
I have created a workaround to this.
It was simple. Just started the long running process in different thread. That way, cancel button is shown when it should and then hidden after the process ends.
I used this code to launch the process in the Ribbon.cs code:
btnCancelar.Visible = true;
Action action = () => {
Formatter.GenerateNewSheet(Formatter.TargetType.ImpresionEtiquetas, frm.CustomerID, workbook, btnCancelar);
};
System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew(action);
And inside the process method I have this code:
public static bool GenerateNewSheet(TargetType type, string customerID, Excel.Workbook workbook, Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonButton btnCancelar)
{
try
{
_cancelled = false;
InfoLog.ClearLog();
switch (type)
{
case TargetType.ImpresionEtiquetas:
return GenerateTagPrinting(customerID, workbook);
}
return false;
}
finally
{
btnCancelar.Visible = false;
}
}
The interesting thing here I have discovered is that Excel is thread safe, so it was not necessary to add a synchronization mechanism neither when adding rows in the new sheet nor when setting Visible property to false again.
Regards
Jaime
this is the first time I'm posting a question here; I have searched and searched and searched here and other places and I cannot seem to get any results. I'm using VISUAL BASIC 2015 in Visual Studio 2015. QUESTION: I need to have a modal window/popup from a particular website remain INSIDE the web browser control/window on my form (WebBrowser1); when a particular link is clicked, the modal window/popup jumps out of the form and directly to the user on their screen. I have to keep this popup inside because there are other links to be clicked on that popup, but if it jumps out of the web browser control, no code will work since it's outside WebBrowser1. What I have found is code for older versions, and not 2015; if anything I can even add WebBrowser2 to have the popups/modal windows appear there if possible, just as long as I can code them to keep clicking inside the form. PLEASE HELP! THANK YOU!
window.open (and a click on <a target="_blank"> etc) can be handled via the NewWindow2 event. Hans already pointed out how to do that in comments. NewWindow3 works too, but need at least Windows XP SP2.
As for window.showModalDialog, it is a bit tricky. IE has IDispatchEx (wrapped as IExpando in .Net) implemented on scripting objects so you replace the methods and properties with your own implementation. But window.showModalDialog shows a dialog that has arguments and return values, you need to override those properties in the modal dialog you create too. The code looks roughly like tis:
void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
//skip events from frames
if(WebBrowserReadyState.Complete!=webBrowser1.ReadyState) return;
if(FindLoginFormOnPage()) {DoLogin();return;}
if(IsWelcomePage()){NavigateToPage1();return;}
if(IsPage1()){SubmitFormOnPage1();return;}
if(IsPage1FormResult()){
var document=webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument as mshtml.ITMLDocument2;
var expando =(IExpando)document.parentWindow;
expando.RemoveMember(expando.GetMethod("showModalDialog"
,BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public);
expando.AddMethod("showModalDialog"
,new ShowModalDialogDelegate(this.MyShowModalDialog));
}
......
}
object MyShowModalDialog(string url, object varArgIn, object options)
{
using(FromMyShowModalDialog myShowModalDialog
=new MyShowModalDialog())
{
myShowModalDialog.StartupUrl=url;
myShowModalDialog.DialogArguments=varArgIn;
//omit the code to parse options
//and set dialog height/width/topleft location etc
if(myShowModalDialog.ShowDialog()==DialogResult.OK)
{
//do something on the return value before passing to the scripts
......
return myShowModalDialog.ReturnValue;
}
return null;
}
}
and in the Load event handler of MyShowModalDialog you call something like webBrowser1.Navigate to show the page requested by the parent page.
Now you need to pass the arguments to the webbrowser control on the new form. Do the same as above but replace another property this time.
expando.RemoveProperty("dialogArguments");
expando.AddProperty("dialogArguments")
.SetValue(expando,this.DialogArguments);
This will let the web page access the value passed from MyShowModalDialog and stored in this.DialogArguments.
The earliest you can access the DOM is in webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted. By that time the scipts on the page that read window.dialogArguments are probably already executed and got nothing. After overriding window.dialogArguments, you need to study the script on the page to find out how to revert that. for example, if the page has
<head>
<script>
var oMyObject = window.dialogArguments;
var sFirstName = oMyObject.firstName;
var sLastName = oMyObject.lastName;
</script>
...
<span style="color: 00ff7f">
<script>
document.write(sFirstName);
</script>
</span>
you need to change the values of sFirstName and sLastName then change the innerText property of the span, probably identify via its relationship with a named div or table cell. You can write the necessary changes in a script and call it via HtmlDocument.InvokeScript.
If the page returns a value to its parent, you need to pass it on to your parent form too. Override window.returnValue so when the script writes to window.returnValue it writes to a variable you provided
......
expando.RemoveProperty("returnValue");
expando.AddProperty("returnValue").SetValue(expando,this.ReturnValue);
The medical company I work for has a EMR system setup to keep digital copies of patient files so they are searchable as well as quick to access. A new request has come through to be able to save e-mail to the EMR system, however it does not display .msg files very nicely. It does display files nicely as .htm, so was hoping i could figure out a way to save email messages to a specific folder in a .htm format with the user just hitting a single button.
Should i be looking at making an add-in using vs 2010 to do this simple task? Or would there be a better way to do this?
I've explored making an Add-In breifly over the past few days using command bars but have hit numerous problems with adding the menu item to mail items, as well as losing event handlers or having them fire quite a few times, so i'm wondering if i'm barking up the wrong tree.
Edit: Looking at ribbon bar customization as well, may have to upgrade some users that are still using 2003, but seems like it might be the better option than command bars going forward.
Ribbon bar was the best path i found, however i had trouble finding a great how-to for the start-to-finish project, so i'll make a small write up here.
To add a button to the ribbon for only existing mail messages including a image for the button.
Using VS 2010
New project, Office, select "Outlook 2007 add in", enter a name for your project.
To your newly created project, Add a new item "Ribbon (XML)" name it however you want, i'll call it CustomRibbon
open your newly created CustomRibbon.xml file and change the tab node to have the following
<tab idMso="TabReadMessage">
<group insertBeforeMso="GroupActions" id="CustomGroup" label="GroupNameThatShowsInOutlook">
<button id="btnCustomButton"
label = "Text For The Custom Button"
supertip="tip for the button hover"
onAction ="ButtonClicked"
size="large"
getImage="GetCustomButtonImage" />
</group>
</tab>
This then has 2 callback functions to the CustomRibbon.cs file, one called GetCustomButtonImage, the other ButtonClicked.
open CustomRibbon.cs to fill this in, in the Ribbon Callbacks region add the following
public void ButtonClicked(Office.IRibbonControl Control)
{
//Do work here
}
also add the following in the same section
public stdole.IPictureDisp GetCustomButtonImage(Office.IRibbonControl control)
{
System.Drawing.Image myImage;
myImage = OutlookAddIn.Properties.Resources.ImageName;
return AxHostConverter.ImageToPictureDisp(myImage);
}
this will then show there is a class missing, we'll get to that shortly, but first we are going to add in the last part we need in CustomRibbon.cs. In the IRibbonExtensibility Members region, in GetCustomUI change the existing code
public string GetCustomUI(string ribbonID)
{
if (ribbonID == "Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Read")
{
return GetResourceText("OutlookAddIn.CustomRibbon.xml");
}
else
{
return "";
}
}
Add a new class to your project call it AxHostConverter, add add this to the top
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
Then change the class to have the following code
class AxHostConverter : AxHost
{
private AxHostConverter() : base("") { }
static public stdole.IPictureDisp ImageToPictureDisp(Image image)
{
return (stdole.IPictureDisp)GetIPictureDispFromPicture(image);
}
static public Image PictureDispToImage(stdole.IPictureDisp pictureDisp)
{
return GetPictureFromIPicture(pictureDisp);
}
}
Add your image for your button to the project, and change the GetCustomButtonImage function to use that resource. I used a PNG and had good luck with transparencies displaying well.
And finally, all that should be left is to add the following to ThisAddIn.cs
protected override Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonExtensibility CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject()
{
return new CustomRibbon();
}
Add whatever code you are wanting to ButtonClicked and you are set.
Deploy using Clickonce and installation is fairly straightforward.
I'm trying to speed up my windows phone 7 page load times. I have a 'static' page that has a dynamically created in a Panorama control - static meaning that the content never changes.
On the first load I look at my config file, create the individual PanoramaItem controls and add them to the main Panorama control. I'm trying to keep a List in a static place so that the initial creation would only happen once and I could just add a fully rendered version to my Panorama control when the page was rendered.
Works fine on first load, but when I try to add the cached PanoramaItems to the Panorama control I get the message "Element is already the child of another element". This makes sense since I already added before. But I can see a way to disconnect the PanoramaItems with the first Panorama control...
I could be going about the control caching thing all wrong as well... Let me know if there's another way to do this.
You can use Panorama.Items.Remove(pivotItem) for this
As an example
With the following page fields
PanoramaItem pi;
bool blahShown = false;
On the press of this button, the control is first instantiated and displayed and on subsequent presses removed and readded without instantiation.
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (pi == null) {
pi = new PanoramaItem();
pi.Header = "blah";
}
if (blahShown) {
Pano.Items.Remove(pi);
blahShown = false;
} else {
Pano.Items.Add(pi);
blahShown = true;
}
}