How to Add a Dialog Launcher to the Ribbon Tab Group at Design Time

• Aug 02, 2022

The following example demonstrates how to add a dialog launcher button to the Ribbon tab group, at design-time.

Follow the steps below:

1. If necessary, create a new Ribbon tab group. To learn how to create a Ribbon tab group, refer to the How to Create a Ribbon Control at Design-Time help topic.

2. Click the Ribbon tab group’s title to select a toolbar associated with the group.

1. In the Object Inspector , click the ellipsis button next to the bar’s CaptionButtons property to open the collection editor.

1. Using the collection editor, create a dialog launcher button, and specify a KeyTip and ScreenTip for it (if necessary).

1. Handle the button’s OnClick event to respond to the button click. In the following example, the event handler initializes the Font dialog:

// ...
begin
  FontDialog.Font.Assign(Editor.SelAttributes);
  if FontDialog.Execute then
    Editor.SelAttributes.Assign(FontDialog.Font);
end;

The following image shows the code execution result after the button has been clicked:

See Also

TdxRibbonTabGroup

How to Add a Dialog Launcher to the Ribbon Tab Group in Code