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Bug with Ribbon / Quick Access Toolbar Win7

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I have a customized Quick Access Toolbar with more than 20 items on it, and the Ribbon minimized (which makes it somewhat tolerable). Normally I can switch back and forth from the ribbon to the old menus without any problem. But this workflow causes a problem:

1. Delete an item from the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. Switch to normal menu.
3. Switch back to ribbon.

At this point, two problems occur:

1. The ribbon is no longer minimized.
2. EVERYTHING is gone from the Quick Access Toolbar.

I have reproduced this on Windows 7, but not on Windows 8.
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For what it's worth, I cannot reproduce this on Win7 (x64). When the ribbon is minimised and an item is removed from the quick access, switching to real menus, then back to the ribbon restores to the same state: the ribbon is minimised with all items in quick access except the deleted one.

I even put 20+ items in the quick-access bar to check. Tried multiple variations (delete the first item, last item, more than 1, etc), but none reproduce your result. :shrug:
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it works ok for me too!
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Re: Bug with Ribbon / Quick Access Toolbar Win7

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I've reproduced this on four machines now - two at work and two at home. It doesn't happen every time. I'll see if I can come up with a more specific workflow.
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Re: Bug with Ribbon / Quick Access Toolbar Win7

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Don't need 20+ items; I can reproduce with just 2.
Try this:
Manually remove all items from QAT.
Add two items.
Save as test layout.
Exit X2.
Start X2, open new window with the saved test layout.
Now try workflow as above.
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I'm sorry, but it still works as I would expect it to: the ribbon always comes back minimised with the remaining items in the quick-access. I must have switched back and forth 25 times (including the layouts, etc) and each one results in the same proper state.

Perhaps Nikos, or someone else, will have more "luck" reproducing it. (Otherwise I would suggest looking for commonly-installed applications you have on all the machines, AV, TSR's, etc, etc. Then again, that's what I'm supposed to suggest, so I'm out of ideas - I'll assume Nikos has not been swamped with similar reports - then again, as so few use the Ribbon, it's difficult to gauge.)
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now i can see it too
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the "trick" is to add a command that is not normally available in QAT and then remove it. It appears in win7. Now I tried on win8 and the problem isn't there. So it means it is a win7 bug which probably will never be fixed :(
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nikos wrote:the "trick" is to add a command that is not normally available in QAT
Actually, I can only recreate this using the x86 version of x2, and the QAT (not a good acronym) must be set to display "below" the ribbon. Only under those conditions is it repeatable (for me). Refuses to happen on x64 no matter what layout is used, or command added.

Weird. :shrug:

To ask the obvious, why is it "unfixable"? Just a generic fault with the Ribbon itself?
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unfixable because the problem is internal in the ribbon, and the ribbon keeps its guts to itself
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Kilmatead wrote:
nikos wrote:the "trick" is to add a command that is not normally available in QAT
Actually, I can only recreate this using the x86 version of x2, and the QAT (not a good acronym) must be set to display "below" the ribbon. Only under those conditions is it repeatable (for me). Refuses to happen on x64 no matter what layout is used, or command added.

Weird. :shrug:

To ask the obvious, why is it "unfixable"? Just a generic fault with the Ribbon itself?
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