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I have a script that will enable and disable custom tool buttons in a new tab and buttons I built in the ribbon interface.

Using one tool will enable the next tool button. But the tool button remains disabled until I click on it, at which point it becomes enabled. The tool button also becomes enabled if I do something else that refreshes the interface.

Can I, in the script, deliberately refresh the ribbon?

Hi Nick.

The interface should update the enabled/disabled state of the custom tool buttons without anything like forcing a refresh of the entire ribbon, so we should probably try to understand that better.

Could you describe the button definition and implementation a bit more?

How are you invoking the enable/disable state toggle? I assume something similar to:

Call SetRbnItemEnabled(button1, True) ?

-john

Hi John,

Call SetRbnToolBtnCtrlEnabled(button1e,TRUE)

I have two tool buttons in a row. The first tool button lets the user select a point (on a polyline). This then enables the second tool button which lets the user select a second point (on the same polyline).

I solved it.

I had not set a Draw Mode.

I used this line below to fix my code

Call SetRbnToolBtnCtrlDrawMode(button1d,DM_CUSTOM_POINT)

This told MapInfo that a single click finished the operation, and then the ribbon updated appropriately