How to set TActionClientItem.CommandProperties at runtime

[RobNorthcott]

I'm generating a TRibbon-based menu at runtime in Delphi 2010. It needs to be created in code at runtime because the menu can be completely different depending on which user logs in (menus are user-defined).

It's working nicely apart from the fact that I can't write to the CommandProperties of a TActionClientItem at runtime. It's allowing me to set the whole property by assigning it from an existing button, but not the parts of the property directly (I need to set CommandProperties.ButtonStyle and CommandProperties.ButtonSize). Even the code editor at design time claims those values are not visible, even though they can be seen and set through the object inspector.

Does anybody know why these properties are "invisible" to code, or how to set them without needing a dummy button to assign settings from?

Rob

 

[RobNorthcott]

Forget it - we've just noticed the license warning about having to conform to Microsoft's narrow-minded ideas about how we can use the ribbon control interface. How typically petty. Won't be using that then :/

Rob

 

[DjangMan]

DevExpress has their own implementation of the ribbon that might be of use. I tried Embarcadero's version once and had the whole bar corrupt as I was trying to sort out where the buttons would be placed and lost a day of work.