[AccessD] A2007 - Programmatically Minimize Ribbon

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 16:10:39 CST 2009


Sent.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> 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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