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I am writing code for a custom tab in the ribbon interface that contains buttons and tools only relevant for a map window.

I notice that if the map window is floating, then it has three tabs, "table", "map", "spatial". Is it possible to set my custom tab to appear on the floating map window?

Hi Nick,

I wanted to give this a go myself and came up with the following.

You have to first get the IWindowInfo object for the floating window.  I did this by retrieving the list of all windows, then looping through until I found the first document window - see below.  This assumes you already have the MapInfo object stored in global variable thisMIObject_g.

Dim nWinCounter As Integer

Dim nWinCount As Integer

Dim bContinue As Logical

Dim thisWindowList As This

Dim thisWindow As This

' Get the list of windows within MapInfo:

thisWindowList = GetWindows(thisMIObject_g)

' Set up the loop

nWinCounter = 0

nWinCount = GetWinListCount(thisWindowList)

bContinue = True

' Loop through all windows

Do While nWinCounter < nWinCount And bContinue

     ' Retrieve the current window

    thisWindow = GetWinListItem(thisWindowList, nWinCounter)

     If GetWinInfoIsDocumentWindow(thisWindow) Then

          ' This is a document window - get its ribbon

           thisRibbon = MIProGetFltingWindowRibbon(thisMIObject_g, thisWindow)

           bContinue = False

     End If

     nWinCounter = nWinCounter + 1

 Loop?

Alternatively, if you know the WindowID of the floating window, you could call the WinListFromId function rather than looping through each window:

thisWindow = WinListFromId(thisWindowList, nWindowID)

You can then continue as you normally would with the usual ribbon - i.e. retrieve the tab collection for the ribbon:

thisRibbonTabColl = GetTabsColl(thisRibbon)

I hope this helps.

James.

?There is a sample app (.net) that shows how to do this that comes with mapbasic.

FloatingWindowRibbon sample.