Need the location of the ribbon button pressed

[David Thielen]

If you look in Word at Insert, Table it clearly is placing a dialog
box right under the button when it is pressed. I need to do the same
thing.

How can I determine the lower left corner of a ribbon button whe it is
pressed? It passes in IRibbonControl.Context but that is the window
holding the entire ribbon.

thanks - dave

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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Unfortunately, we cannot get the exact location of ribbon button pressed.
Currently, no Office APIs exposed for a ribbon control's position. And the
ribbon controls are drawn directly by Office application, so they are not
tranditional native window. We cannot get their positions by calling
Windows API either.

See my same discussions recently in MSDN forum,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/2c309a7a-8e7b-4035
-814c-7b0d5d70fd96


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[David Thielen]

Hello Dave,

Unfortunately, we cannot get the exact location of ribbon button pressed.
Currently, no Office APIs exposed for a ribbon control's position. And the
ribbon controls are drawn directly by Office application, so they are not
tranditional native window. We cannot get their positions by calling
Windows API either.

See my same discussions recently in MSDN forum,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/2c309a7a-8e7b-4035
-814c-7b0d5d70fd96

OW! Ok, we'll use the mouse position - but I'm not wild on that.

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
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me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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[Tony Jollans]

This can be done using the Accessibility Interface - see my website for a
basic example of using it in VBA. Once you get an IAccessible interface for
your control, you can use the accLocation method to get the location.

 

[David Thielen]

This can be done using the Accessibility Interface - see my website for a
basic example of using it in VBA. Once you get an IAccessible interface for
your control, you can use the accLocation method to get the location.

Ok, will try.

thanks - dave

david@[email protected]
Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com
me -- http://dave.thielen.com

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