There are a number of ways in which you can customize the Viewer control to make it a perfect fit for your Windows application. You can add and remove buttons from the toolbars, add and remove menu items, create custom dialogs, and call them from custom click events.

You can use the methods listed in the System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemCollection documentation on MSDN to customize each ToolStrip.

ToolStrip

TheToolStrip contains the following ToolStripItems by index number.

0 Toggle sidebar
1 Separator
2 Print
3 Galley mode
4 Separator
5 Copy
6 Find
7 Separator
8 Zoom out
9 Zoom In
10 Current Zoom
11 Separator
12 Fit width
13 Fit page
14 Separator
15 Single page
16 Continuous mode
17 Multipage mode
18 Separator
19 First page
20 Previous page
21 Current
22 Next page
23 Last page
24 Separator
25 History back
26 History forward
27 Separator
28 Back to parent
29 Separator
30 Refresh
31 Cancel button
32 Separator
33 Pan mode
34 Copy select
35 Snapshot
36 Separator
37 Annotations

You can access these ToolStripItems by index with the Insert and RemoveAt methods. Other methods, including Add and AddRange, are described in the System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemCollection documentation on MSDN.

Tool Click Implementation

When you add a new item to a ToolStrip, you need to add an ItemClicked event handler and an ItemClicked event for the ToolStrip with the new item. At run time, when a user clicks the new ToolStrip item, they raise the ItemClicked event of the ToolStrip containing the item

Add the event handler to the Load event of the Form that contains the Viewer control, and use the IntelliSense Generate Method Stub feature to create the related event. For examples of the code to create an event hander, see the Viewer.ViewerToolbar Class, the Customize the Viewer Control topic, and the Custom Preview sample that is located in ...\Documents\ComponentOne Samples\ActiveReports Developer 7\Section Reports\C#\CustomPreview.

How To

Customize the Viewer Control