.NET Customisation
User Guide
.NET Customisation : Menu and Command Bar Customisation : Edit an UIC File
The content of a UIC file is created using the CAF based applications’ built-in interactive user interface customisation tool available from the Customize window. Click 
to display the Customize window.
to display the Customize window.
The customization system supports the concept of multiple configuration files. Any number of levels of customization file can be defined either using the module customization configuration file or the CommandBarManager. AddUICustomizationFile() method, and they are layered on-top of each other in the order they appear in the list.
The Customize Explorer is populated with a representation of the active customization. It shows CommandBars and their contents, Menubars and their entries, Context Menus and their entries and Ribbons and their contents defined in all of the configuration files above and including the currently selected file. It also contains a list of the currently loaded resource files.
When a node in the customize explorer is selected, the property grid is updated with the corresponding object so that its properties can be edited. Only objects which are defined in the currently Active Customization File can have their properties modified.
If the selected node represents a resource file, the Resource Editor will be displayed instead of the property grid.
Use the right-click menu available from the List of Command Tools pane of the Customize window to delete, create a tool or get an image from the clipboard.
Delete - Deletes the currently selected tool, if the selected tool is not editable then the delete operation is disabled. If the tool has been used then a warning message is displayed to confirm that the delete should be carried out.
New - use the displayed menu to create a new menu tool, create a new tool of the required type with a unique default name (Tool<N>) and add it to the list. New tools can also be created using the icons on the left side of the command tool pane.
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If required, the command property can be modified, click . . . in the Command field to display the Command window. By default the command type is set to Command, other command types available for selection are Macro and Command Class, refer to Macro and Command Class for further information.
Use the functionality available from the Command window, to select a command class from populated list:
The ribbon section of the explorer enables the creation of tools; application menus, contextual tab groups and tabs, the creation, modification, deletion or group order is identical to that previously described. Refer to Edit an UIC File for further information.
Use of the resource editor enables each of the currently loaded resource sets to be edited. It supports String, Icon and Bitmap resources. Each resource set can comprise a number of resource files, with an Invariant Language resource file and any number of locale specific resource files. When a resource file is selected, the Resource Editor is activated.
When active, the resource editor command bar contains the following operations; Save, Copy Resources, Paste Resources, Delete or Add New Resource File.
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Use the Edit Formatted Text window to edit existing resource(s), right click the required string resource in the property grid, from the displayed menu select Formatted Text Editor.
Use the localisable resources functionality to customize a locale specific resource file or add a new locale specific resource file to the resource file set (this can then be selected for editing). Refer to Resource Manager for further information.
Use the standard functionality available for selection from the View Style menu to change how information is displayed in the resource file editor.
