Show / hide toolbars using popup menu

[andrey_yazhuk]

Hello,

We are developing an application that uses wxAuiManager and wxAuiToolbars.
We expect to have a relatively large number of toolbars and so we need to allow users to decide what toolbars should be visible. Similarly to MS Office apps we want to implement a popup menu that will list all available toolbars, user will be able show / hide toolbars by setting / clearing checkmarks in the menu. The menu should be shown when a user right clicks in the “toolbar area” of the frame window.
What is the best way to implement this in AUI?

Andrey Yazhuk

[Ben]

Hi,

You should be able to do that with wxAUI's events alone, along with wxToolBar. If you want to use wxAuiToolBar, you are more than welcome to do so. I haven't had the few extra hours I've needed to put out wxAuiToolBar just yet, but you can expect it soon.

All the best,
Ben

[andrey_yazhuk]

Hello Ben,

Currently we are using wxToolBar, but I would be interested to try wxAuiToolBar.
What wxAUI events and in what class should I handle in order to get a right click in the "toolbar area". Do you think that special support for this popup menu could be added to wxAUI? (I am willing to contribute my time, but will need guidance).

Andrey

[Ben]

Hi,

I was mistaken. The wxAuiManager doesn't have events for this. Fortunately, it might still be possible to do this without modifying wxAUI. Since wxAUI draws directly onto the frame window, all you need to do it intercept EVT_RIGHT_UP on your frame window. Once you have this, you need to find out if the right-click happened in the toolbar area.

Give this a try, and let me know.

We'll have to add a set of more comprehensive events to do this more elegantly.

All the best,
Ben

[Julian Smart]

I didn't know wxAuiToolBar was available yet.

Anyhoo, two things come to mind. My Ctrl-Tab switcher menu thing for showing an AUI (or other) pane is here:

http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/switcher.jpg
http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/switcher.zip

and I've written a simple toolbar customisation system here:

http://www.anthemion.co.uk/wxwin/toolbarcust.zip

This allows the user to pick a toolbar from a drop-down box and switch the toolbar (and its tools) on or off. This works with any wxToolBarBase-derived toolbar and requires you to store tool information in data classes rather than create the toolbars directly.

Regards,

Julian