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Resolved RibbonBar - how to trigger the menu on a LargeButton to dropdown

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  1. Steen Jakobsen
    Steen Jakobsen
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  3. Sunday, 4 April 2021 08:34 AM UTC

Hi my great fellow PB-champs :-)

 

Does anyone know if it is possible to trigger the dropdown menu associated with at "LargeButton" to dropdown from a script (programmatically). 

I'm using 2019R3

(I want to do that because the used needs to make a choice from the menu before continuering.)

 

Thanks for any feedback in advance.

 

//Steen

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John Fauss
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  1. Monday, 5 April 2021 13:10 PM UTC
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Greetings, Steen - 

Call me old school, but wouldn't a modal (i.e., response) window be a more appropriate way to ensure the user makes a selection or cancels the operation before continuing?

Best regards, John

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Steen Jakobsen
  1. Steen Jakobsen
  2. Tuesday, 6 April 2021 09:13 AM UTC
Hi John,



Thanks for giving me feedback :-)

I already open a msgbox to tele the user he must make a choice. The functionality I want, is to visually then after the user clicks OK in the msgbox to dropdown the menu in the appropriate "LargeButton" in the RibbonBar.



That would be really elegant. But I dont know how ?



//Steen

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John Fauss
  1. John Fauss
  2. Tuesday, 6 April 2021 13:47 PM UTC
Although a MessageBox is yes, technically a modal/response window, I was suggesting providing a custom response window that both contains the prompting message and the drop-down mechanism. Then the user is not only notified of the condition, but can also take the necessary action, all in one step. That, to me at least, is a simpler, cleaner user interface than a two-step process whereby you are trying to coerce modality out of a mechanism (the RibbonBar) that is not designed with modal responses in mind.



Best wishes and good luck!
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Steen Jakobsen
  1. Steen Jakobsen
  2. Thursday, 8 April 2021 03:47 AM UTC
Thanks John,

I understand your point. But I want the user to choose from the dropdown menu. That is why I want to force it to drop.

Any idea?
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Bruce Armstrong
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  1. Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:02 PM UTC
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I'd argue that all the LargeButton event should be doing is calling an event/function on the main window.  So rather than try to trigger that event, simply call the same event/function on the window.

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Steen Jakobsen
  1. Steen Jakobsen
  2. Thursday, 8 April 2021 03:46 AM UTC
Hi Bruse,

You are right. But I want the user to choose from the dropdown menu. That is why I want to force it to drop.

Any idea?
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Bruce Armstrong
  1. Bruce Armstrong
  2. Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:04 PM UTC
Ah, I see. I don't know any way to do that.



For that matter though, what would prevent the user from clicking on something else (e.g., some other button) after you've dropped the menu?
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Steen Jakobsen
  1. Steen Jakobsen
  2. Friday, 9 April 2021 15:14 PM UTC
Nothing prevents him for doing that. It just a suggestion I want to make based on the previous actions the user did.
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