Month: September 2009

You may find that you need to dynamically change the text in a header or item. This is a bit tricky in the currently public release, but is made much simpler in the next release.

In the current release, 2.0.111, you need to add a few lines of code to make this work. First of all you need to declare a group in your procedure data embed:

TskI GROUP(POB:TaskInfo)
     End

This declares a group that you then need modify.

 TskI = Outlookbar1.GetTaskInfo(OutlookBar1.Outlookpanel,0)
 TskI.Title = 'Changed Outlookbar Title'
 Outlookbar1.SetTaskInfo(OutlookBar1.Outlookpanel,|
                         0,|
                         TskI)

The first line loads the local group, TaskInfo, with the data from the header or item. The second line sets the title in the group and the third line updates the the header or item. Since this is rather awkward we decided to simplify this down to:

OutlookBar1.SetTitle(OutlookBar1.Outlookpanel,|
                     0,|
                     'Changed Outlookbar Title')

To download version 2.0.112, which includes the new SetTitle method, please go to Download Icetips Outlookbar 2.0.112

Arnor Baldvinsson

Sometimes it is necessary to update and refresh controls on the toolbar. In order to do so you need to know the control IDs. You can find those in the templates (see the "ID" field in these screenshots) or you can open the source for the procedure in the embeditor (right click on procedure and select "Source" from the popup menu) and locate declaration of the toolbar class (search for "POToolbarClass"). The IDs will be declared rigth above it and the control IDs start in a number range of 10,000.

Here is an example on how to update couple of entry fields and a checkbox button:

 loc:query     = SEA:Terms
 MinAsk        = SEA:MinAsk
 MaxAsk        = SEA:MaxAsk
 Toolbar30.SetText    (ID30_SearchEntry, loc:Query)
 Toolbar30.SetText    (ID30_MnPrice,     MinAsk)
 Toolbar30.SetText    (ID30_MxPrice,     MaxAsk)
 Toolbar30.SetChecked (ID30_Haspic,      Sea:HasImage)
 Toolbar30.Refresh(True)

Note that in order to make sure that everything is updated correctly you need to use Refresh(True) rather than just Refresh()

Arnor Baldvinsson