Not able to expand tool button in Acrobat 9.0

Question

I have implemented a plugin which contain two Tool buttons using Acrobat SDK 7.0.
I created a "Flyout" using function AVToolBarNewFlyout(). I am adding those two tool buttons into this Flyout using function
AVToolBarAddButton() and at last I am doing AVToolButtonSetFlyout().
When I load this Plugin into Acrobat version 7 and 8 the flyout is working fine (where I can expand tool button) with or without opening any document in Acrobat window.
The problem is when I load the same Plugin into Acrobat version 9 the Flyout is working fine (where I can expand tool button) only when the document is opened in Acrobat window.
I am not able to expand tool button if active document is not present.
Please help me..

Answer 1

Hi Leonard,
Please find the below Source code:
Creating toolbar using AVToolBarNew function.
AVToolBarPositionRec positionRec;
memset(&positionRec, 0, sizeof(AVToolBarPositionRec));
positionRec.size = sizeof(AVToolBarPositionRec);
positionRec.inDoc = true;
positionRec.dockPosition = kAVToolBarDockTop;
positionRec.stackNum = 1;
positionRec.offset= ASMAXInt32;
positionRec.order = ASMAXInt32;
positionRec.hidden = false;
CreateButtonsFromDescriptors (toolBar);
AVAppRegisterToolBarPosition("Our Plugin Toolbar", false, &positionRec);
//This is the function to create flyout for toolbutton.
static void CreateButtonsFromDescriptors (AVToolBar target)
PIButtonDesc *buttonInfo = gButtonInfo;
ASInt32 *buttonOrder = gButtonOrder;
AVExecuteProc commonExecCallback;
AVComputeEnabledProc commonEnableCallback;
// Create our toolbuttons.
while (*buttonOrder != 0)
// Create the main toolbutton.
AVToolButton toolButton = AVToolButtonNew (ASAtomFromString("Button 1")/*(buttonInfo->buttonName)*/, NULL, false, false);
// Creating our common callbacks.
AVToolButtonSetHelpText (toolButton, "Button 1");
buttonInfo++;
// Create the rest of the buttons in the section on a flyout toolbar.
if (*buttonOrder > 1)
AVToolBar flyout = AVToolBarNewFlyout();
for (ASInt32 i = 1; i < *buttonOrder; i++)
AVToolButton tButton = AVToolButtonNew (ASAtomFromString( "Button 2"/*buttonInfo->buttonName*/), NULL, false, false);
//Creating our common callbacks.
AVToolButtonSetHelpText (tButton,"Button 2");
AVToolBarAddButton (flyout, tButton, false, NULL);
buttonInfo++;
// Add flyout to button.
AVToolButtonSetFlyout (toolButton, flyout);
// Finally, add button to target toolbar.
AVToolBarAddButton (target, toolButton, true, NULL);
buttonOrder++;
With the above Source code I am creating a Plugin.When I added this Plugin into Acrobat 7 and 8 I am able to expand the ToolButton( i.e flyout ) with or without active document.
But when I load the same Plugin into Acrobat 9 I am able to expand Toolbutton( i.e Flyout ) only when the active document is Present.If active document is not present in Acrobat window I am not able to expand the Tool Button( i.e Flyout ).
Thank you,
Santhosh