[AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon

Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Tue Feb 10 15:11:14 CST 2009


I'll try anything at this point.  Thanks.  Can you send it to
rockysmolin at bchacc.com? 


Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
858-259-4334
www.e-z-mrp.com
www.bchacc.com
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon

Rocky, want to try my sample out and see if it works on your box?

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM, William Hindman
<wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
> "truly annoying to developers" jc
>
> ...they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams :(
>
> William
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:27 PM
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon
>
>> > Any ideas what's going on?
>>
>> Simple really, MS is DAMNED PROUD of their ribbon and is making sure 
>> that you see it!  They spent several million dollars on usability 
>> studies to make sure that the ribbon was useful to power users and 
>> spent about another 10 million or so to make sure that it was truly 
>> annoying to developers, and they aren't about to let their investment 
>> slip through their fingers!
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote:
>>> Stuart:
>>>
>>> Well, dang.  It doesn't work.  I put Call MinimizeRibbon in the 
>>> _Open event,
>>> but the ribbon ended up maximized anyway.   SO I moved it right at the
>>> end
>>> of the _Open event on the theory that maybe some of the housekeeping 
>>> (resizing the form, maximizing the form, etc.) was affecting the ribbon.
>>> But no soap.
>>>
>>> So I moved it to the _Activate event.  Same result.  So I put MsgBox 
>>> RibbonMinimized in the RibbonMinimized Function to see what the 
>>> value was on the call.  With the Call to MinimizeRibbon in the 
>>> Activate event, it gets called 3 times.  Each time the value of 
>>> RibbonMinimized is True and the ribbon is indeed minimized.
>>>
>>> Then right at the end of the opening process, the ribbon re-appears.
>>>
>>> Ctrl-F1 from the keyboard toggles the ribbon nicely.  And the code 
>>> looks like it should work.  And I stepped through it just to see 
>>> what it was doing.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what's going on?
>>>
>>>
>>> Rocky Smolin
>>> Beach Access Software
>>> 858-259-4334
>>> www.e-z-mrp.com
>>> www.bchacc.com
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