I have a ribbon with 3 tabs, Customer, Employer, Service Provider. Each of these tabs have bars for reports, queries, accounts and daily processing etc. I want the bar caption for each of the different bars to show the same caption. For example the customer and employer tabs must show the reports bar caption as Reports.
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AS15139
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Hello guys,
Thinking of this functionality, we now tend to disagree that duplicated toolbar captions are necessary. First, please note that our new Ribbon UI is built upon the older toolbar logic (found in earlier versions of the MS Office). That system doesn't allow you to duplicate toolbar captions … just try to create a new toolbar with the existing name in your MS Word. ExpressBars simply "inherits" this functionality and changing it in a maintenance update may break the existing applications. What is more, the TdxBarManager.BarByCaption method will definitely fail after implementing such a suggestion and we think that other customers will simply kill us :)
Keeping this in mind, we assume that duplicate captions are necessary only in the Ribbon UI. It seems that the best idea is to introduce captions for Ribbon Groups (TdxRibbonTabGroup). Once you have set a group's caption, it will override the caption of the linked toolbar. So, we have updated the subject of this report and we will work to implement a new property - TdxRibbonTabGroup.Caption - in the future.
Thanks,
Serge
WORKAROUND (from our user):
Just to mention a workaround for the time being: you could append spaces to the second caption. If the tab is big enough it is subtle enough.