How to add commandbar popup to a commandbar popup

Question

I am making word 2003 shared add-in. pls tell me how can i add a commandbarpopup to a commandbarpopup????

Answer 1

Only VSTO add-ins, not Shared Add-ins, are supported in the VSTO forum. For resources for non-VSTO questions, please consult the fourm's Please Read First message.

FWIW, a CommandBarPopup type of control has a CommandBar property. You assign this to a CommandBar object, then you can add controls to that, same as to a toolbar. You'll find a code example in the VSTO documentation on MSDN. You won't be able to use the full example, as it bases on the VSTO technology. But the part about managing CommandBars applies, see for example the procedure AddMenuBar. All you need to do is specify the correct control type. Note that the same approach applies whether you're adding a popup to the menu bar, a toolbar, or a shortcut menu.

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Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP

Answer 2

Thanks, but as you have told we can add commandbarpopup to a commandbar, but my question was different..i want to add a commandbarpopup to a commandbarpopup object to have 3rd level of submenu. Please tell the solution?

Answer 3

Hello,

As code example Cindy posted, we just made a slight change with this code, mainly the Controls.Add method. In this method, define the first parameter as Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup. In my side, I have made a test, and finally see the third level of menu. For test, I get the New commandPopup which ID is 30037 from File menu, code like this.

        private Office.CommandBarPopup newMenuBar;
        private Office.CommandBarButton buttonOne;
        private string menuTag = "A unique tag";
        Outlook.Explorer explorer;
        Outlook.Inspectors inspectors;

        private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            RemoveMenubar();
            AddMenuBar();
        }

        private void AddMenuBar()
        {
            try
            {               
                Office.CommandBarPopup cbc = (Office.CommandBarPopup)
                    this.Application.ActiveExplorer().CommandBars.FindControl
                    (Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup, 30037, missing, missing);
                Office.CommandBarPopup combarPo;
                if (cbc != null)
                {

                    combarPo = (Office.CommandBarPopup)cbc.Controls.
                                  Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup, missing,missing, 1, true);                    
                    combarPo.Caption = "Button One";
                    combarPo.Tag = "c123";
                    if (combarPo != null)
                    {

                        buttonOne = (Office.CommandBarButton)combarPo.Controls.
                                     Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton, missing,missing, 1, true);
                        buttonOne.Style = Office.MsoButtonStyle.
                            msoButtonIconAndCaption;
                        buttonOne.Caption = "Button One";
                        buttonOne.FaceId = 65;
                        buttonOne.Tag = "c123";
                        //buttonOne.Click += new Office._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(buttonOne_Click);

                    }
                }
          }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }

Best regards,
Bessie

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