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How do I catch a mouse click in a read-only text field in a ribbon bar?  I want it to act like a button and execute its command id.

Thanks,

Rob.

You should create your own CExtRibbonNode-derived class for your text field button and use it in ribbon’s command tree. Your ribbon node class should return run-time class information of your text field button class:

CRuntimeClass * CYourRibbonNodeClassNameHere::_OnRibbonGetButtonRTC()
{
      return RUNTIME_CLASS( CYourRibbonButtonClassNameHere );
}

Your text field button class should be derived from the CExtBarTextFieldButton class and it should implement the CExtBarTextFieldButton::OnClick virtual method. The CExtBarButton::GetStyle() method returns a set of TBBS_***() button styles. If the TBBS_DISABLED() style is present, then the button is disabled. So, your OnClick virtual method will know whether to act like a button or whether to invoke parent class method. There is one more very important thing: the ribbon/toolbar buttons are not clickable in disabled state by default. So, you will also need to override the CExtBarButton::CanBePressedInDisabledState() virtual method in your text field button class and simply return true from it.

Thanks, this set me down the right path, although I don’t think I would have ever got the details right without finding a complete sample, which I did here: www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/support-forum/about-ribbonbar-part5-58991.aspx

Rob.