Please Verify - is there any way to tell if a tab is visible

[David Thielen]

Can one of the MSFT support people please ask the Word dev team the following:

I have to sit on a very expensive Word event when my Ribbon tab is visible
(to enable/disable buttons based on the caret position). Is there a way to
get a call from Word when my tab is displayed and another call when it is
hidden?

Even if it is a hack. For example in Word 2000/2002/2003 I sit on the Word
window message pumps and look for mouse clicks where the menu is and in that
case then enable/disable.

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[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Unfortunately, the tab in ribbon did not provide the event that you could
handle.

I am not sure why you want to handle this event. My suggestion is that you
could use the getVisable callback function to dynamically show or hidden
the tab.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[David Thielen]

The problem is we have to call that every time the caret moves in Word so we
would be doing that a lot.

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[Cindy M.]

Hi Dave,

Have you considered using a custom task pane, instead? With a toggle button
somewhere in a standard Ribbon tab that turns it on. The event could be
on/off with the visibility of the ctp...

I have to sit on a very expensive Word event when my Ribbon tab is visible
(to enable/disable buttons based on the caret position). Is there a way to
get a call from Word when my tab is displayed and another call when it is
hidden?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[David Thielen]

That's a possibility. I will keep that in mind.

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