Office 2007 Style...

[lidds]

I was wondering if there are any plans to have office 2007 styles incorporated into the PDF-Xchange ActiveX. This would be a really nice touch as I (and probably others) are developing using this new style

Simon

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

According to voting on this forum most of the people don’t want to see Ribbon in PDF-XChange viewer. But still - if you developing your own application with Viewer ActiveX - you can make any UI what you want (or what your IDE allows you to do).

[lidds]

In the activex you can obviously call up all the menu bars and obviously clicking on the buttons execute commands for the button. If however I wanted to create my own buttons in office 2007 style is there anywhere that would tell me how to call the commands behind the buttons.

I hope that makes sense

Thanks

Simon

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

All needed information you can find in Help file or in Sample projects. There is a lot of stuff you can control without using Viewer UI, so I cannot write all of possible commands on this forum.

[lidds]

I understand that there is a huge amount of functionality within the activex / dll. The thing that I want to know is that even though the activex displays pre-defined menubars that offers a large amount of funtionality, what I want to do is create a office 2007 style button that will call the same code as the pre-defined menubars / buttons in the Activex.

I was wondering if there is a list of these?

Thanks in advance

Simon

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

No there is no such list. But samples which included in SDK fully show how you can control Viewer ActiveX without using its UI.

[lidds]

I understand that's some people do not want the Office 2007 style, which is fair enough. And I know that I can create a menubar in any style that I want, however 1. this is obviously a lot of work but also when I then open windows for example the bookmark, comments search window these are obviously in a different style to my application. Is there a way that I can skin your activex control, I have found various third party skin programs, but these have no effect on your activex?

Any help or advise would be apreshiated

Simon

[Corwin - Tracker Sup]

Nope, you cannot skin ActiveX component, however you can choose different colours for almost all AX UI elements. This may make AX fit better to the UI that you have designed.

[lidds]

I was wondering if anything has moved on with regards to being able to skin or make the ActiveX control be in Office 2007, 2010 or 2012 style?

Thanks

Simon

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Simon,

I am sorry but no - you still can't customize the Viewer AX. We are working on the Editor SDK - and there you should have greater control, but this SDK is going to be available later this year.

Best,
Stefan