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I’ve added a Ribbon control to my form, and when I tried adding a control or two to the group box on the ribbon tab I found it impossible to arrange the control layout. For example, adding a Label control to the group box by dragging from the ToolBox window places the Label in the top center of the group box. It isn’t possible to drag the label to another location within the group box as I normally would using WinForms Designer within VS as every time I try to drag it to a new location (say, to the vertical center of the group box) it snaps back to its default placement. What is the concept behind the layout behavior and what is the proper way to go about arranging my controls the way I want in the ribbon group boxes? Is there a little article somewhere? Do I have alignment options? Thank you.

Otherwise, so far the Ribbon looks great! Very impressive.

-L

We will prepare a sample illustrating a custom arrangement of the controls inside the ribbon group. We will provide it in 24 hours. Stay tuned.

I’ve given up on the Panel approach and am trying to work with the Ribbon control the way it "wants" me to, but I’m still having a heck of a time. I see in your RibbonGUI demo that you have a group labeled "Font" when the "Home" tab has focus. In the Font group you have two Label controls with drop down list box controls right next to them. They appear to have their vertical centers aligned.

I’ve been trying for the last hour (!!!) to duplicate this simple arrangement and I cannot. First a drop a Label control onto the group and change its Text property to whatever. The Label is now centered in the upper portion of the group and cannot be moved or resized. I then drop a Textbox control onto the group and it appears centered directly beneath the Label control. It cannot be moved or repositioned. There is no (intuitive) way that I can see to move the Textbox such that it is to the right of the Label control.

I’m starting to think that I have some fundamental misunderstanding of how this control is meant to be used. Does this Ribbon control, in fact, allow for unique arrangements of controls on its surface? If so, how? If not, how does one know a priori what the permissible patterns are?

-L

Try the following sample

Custom panel-based container

It uses a custom container inherited from Elegant.Ui.Panel and allows you to arrange child controls arbitrary. Please let us know if id does not help.

I see now. I had actually tried to change the Back Color property of the Panel to Transparent earlier to improve appearance, but I was trying to do it through the property window and of course was unable to. I didn’t think to derive from the Panel class and SetStyle(...). This will do I believe.

Thanks for doing that!

-L

Any ribbon group is compliant with the layout presented in Microsoft Office applications. In order to manually arrange controls, just add a Panel to your ribbon group and use it as a container for your controls.

Hello all,

 

I’ve just downloaded an evaluation version of Elegant Ribbon. After installing it, I can see the Ribbon Controls in the Toolbox of Visual Studio Pro 2008, but I also have a copy of Visual C# Express 2008 and the Ribbon controls do not show up in the toolbox there. How do I get the tools in C# Express? Thanks in advance.

 

-L

Great! Thank you.

I put Elegant.Ui.ComboBox into Elegant.Ui.StatusBar, and fill ComboBox items dynamically in runtime. But ComboBox width size set automatically for first selection item. How I can set width size for ComboBox in StatusBar constantly?

Thanks.

I am using  a gallery on a usercontrol. The gallery in the ribbon looks fine but the gallery on the user control is not effected by the formframeskinner.

How can i use a formframeskinner on my user control ?

Thanks a lot,

Martin

An email is send to you.

The gallery control has some special appearance when used inside a ribbon group. The gallery appearance inside a UserControl is different, but it still depends on the selected theme. Your screenshot shows that the gallery is ok, it is supposed to look like that and there is no way to make it look the same as in the ribbon. Anyway you can play with the visiblity of certain gallery elements. Run the ControlsSample sample(it comes with the Elegant Ui installation) and selecte the "Gallery" tab page to see the ways you can customize it.

Is it possible to add predefined hint text to TextBox control when it is empty. This kind of TextBox is for example available in Internet Explorer in right top corner for search providers.

If it is not possible are you considering to implement this?

Regards,

macofaco

Thank you for your response. it would be really cool to have such control :)

I think I also found small rendering issue in application menu. Please see screenshot for details:

Thank you for reporting the issue. We’ll fix it in the next release.

How i can set drop down list items count in combo box ribbon element?

Hi. Show me please how i can active tab page programmatically. I try use Select() function but this function don’t work...

You cannot set the Count property. It is incremented when you add items. It is a get property. Or if you mean something else, please elaborate.

You can use the SelectedTabPage method of the tab control.

How i can set drop down list items count in combobox ribbon control?

hi. how i can set combobox ribbon for autosearch items with pressed symbol ? (such as standart combobox if i set dropdownstyle = dropdownlist)

Hi, i can create combobox with multicolumns?

How I can load image for Application Button dinamically?

Thanks.

Hi

I have a problem with putting a background image on my elegant Ribbon


I try this


System.Drawing.Image d = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(<Image path>)
this.ribbon1.BackgroundImage = d;’

It won’t show up the image in my ribbon.

I also tried to add it to the tabpage oor the ribbon-group but it won’t show an image? What am I doing wrong.

Thanks in advance

Roger

I upgraded from v3.1 to v3.3 lately but encountered two issues.

Issue 1: a context menu which is supposed to be show up when user right click shows up at my app’s startup which is weird

Issue 2: the font changed from Arial (which I set programmatically) to some other font which is even more weird.

Can you guys help me out here. What kind of change should I make when I upgrade?

We checked the issues you mentioned and found no problems. Could you create a very simple project that illustrates the problem and send it to us at support@prof-uis.com? Thank you.

PS: I’m using VS2008 Express + Win7 RC(Build 7100)

Dear,

i need to know how can i select a new tab. For Example at Ribbon UI Sample If the Home Tab is selected, how can i go to Page Layout tab, or View tab, or any other tab at the ribbon ?!!!

Expecting your reply

Thanks

Dear;

 

How  can i create an event on ribbon.HelpButton?!!

 

Thanks

Dear;

 

I have tried to use Elegant ribbon on Windows Vista but didn’t work!!!

how can i make it work?!!

 

Thanks

Sorry for being imprecise; i will try to describe in detail

 

i did the setup of Elegenat Ribbon on my PC, then took the EXE of ribbon sample and tried to open them on other PCs but didn’t work.

then i installed Elegant Ribbon on these PCs, some accomplished the installation process and some did not. there was an error " couldn’t complete installation becuase (mscoree.dll) was not found "

 

Is there any prerequisites to make EXE work on different PCs and different operating systems?

 

thanks

Thank you for the details. The only reason for what you have reported is that there is no Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 installed on the machines you tried to run Elegant Ribbon samples on. See for example this knowledge base article:

PRB: "Mscoree.dll Could Not Be Found" Error Message When You Try to Run a .NET Executable File

Please note Elegant Ribbon applications can run only on machines where .Net 2.0 is installed:

http://www.prof-uis.com/elegant-ribbon/tech-support/faq/distribution.aspx

You can download Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 from this location:

Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)

Thanks for reply

Actually i have tried this on multiple PCs one of them didn’t have .Net frame work and EXE worked well !!!!

Another one i tried to install Elegant but gave the error i mentioed before, when i tried to uninstall; couldn’t accomplish the uninstallation and crashed.

Another PC that contain .Net frame work. tried to setup Elegant and installation accomplished well. but when i tried to start the EXE crashed.

I dont know what is the problem, please support me with solutions for these scenarios

Thanks very muhc

The presence of .NET Framework is mandatory for using Elegant Ui. No component in our distribution package can work without .NET Framework. As for the application crash, please send us the error details, so we could help you efficiently.

Please also note that Windows Vista and Windows 7 comes with .NET Framework out of the box. So there is no need to install .NET Framework on these OSes. If an OS does not have .NET installed (e.g. Windows 2000 or Windows XP), you should install it manually as we described in the previous message.

You wrote Another PC that contain .Net frame work. tried to setup Elegant and installation accomplished well. but when i tried to start the EXE crashed.

Could you make a screenshot or provide more info about that?

Hi there!

Does any body knows way the validating event does not fire when a button in the ribbon is pressed? I have a user control on my form for editing the properties of an entity. I change something and when the validating event is fired I perform the same operation for that entity. Now if I change something in that editing form and press a button on the ribbon the validating event is not fired. Does any body knows a solution for this?

Best regards,

dexter

I’d like to have a look at the new Office2010 GUI, so I decided to update my 3.2 installation to 3.3.

Because of the fact that an update is not designated, the 3.3-setup asks me so uninstall 3.2 and install afterwards 3.3. This works fine. :)

But: When I compile the project (now with the new version 3.3), I get an error notifing me about a missing assembly-reference (Elegant.Ui was not found).

What do I have to do now? Which References do I have to delete/refresh? And do I have to delete the 3.2-items in the visual studio toolbox manually?

Thanks in advance

Thank you for your answer.

I deleted all references and added them again. This works perfectly now!

The toolbox wasn’t cleared automatically (I can’t remember that I’ve added them manually). OS: Windows 7 Professional x64, Visual Studio 2008 SP 1.

 

Thanks again for this great support.

Thank you for your kind words. By the way, are you sure that the items in the toolbox are of version 3.2 rather than 3.3? If they can be added onto the form then they should of the latest one.

Uh, I didn’t try to add them. Hovering the Items showed me Version 3.2.0. I was confused because both versions were listed (for example Button 3.2.0 & Button 3.3.0).

In shell dialog ,first entry of the dialog not selected directly, I am using shell dialog for open file.

 

 

Please see my above reply

This is a thread about Elegant Ribbon, a NET framework. The CExtShellDialogFile is an MFC Prof-UIS class. Please repost it to http://www.prof-uis.com/prof-uis/tech-support/general-forum.aspx.

CExtShellDialogFile dlgShellFile(NULL,CExtShellDialogFile::__EFDT_OPEN_SINGLE);

        dlgShellFile.m_comboFileTypes.SetFilter(

          filter

            );





        if( dlgShellFile.DoModal() == IDOK )

        {

            CString pathname;

            pathname = LPCTSTR(dlgShellFile.m_arrRetValNames[0]);

            OpenDocumentFile( pathname );

        }

This I check this code for Operating System " Vista "

Also I check the prof UI available  sample examples. (e.g AviFrames) I got the same action, first entry from dialog box is not selecting.

Any thing else please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

Dear

i am trying to use Gallery.SelectedItemChanged event, but the selectedItem property doesn’t differentiate between the different selected items

Can you help me to use this property properly ?!!

Regards,

Esraa

 

The output you are getting is completely correct. The fact is that in both cases you receive a reference to the object of the class GalleryItem that exposes all the properties for each gallery item. It is naturally for class objects that WriteLine method produces the object type name string. You can cast the e.OldValue or StyleGallery.SelectedItem to the type GalleryItem to access the item properties. You can also call StyleGallery.Items.IndexOf(e.OldValue) or StyleGallery.Items.IndexOf(StyleGallery.SelectedItem) in order to get the correspondent item index.

Thanks very much for reply, but unfortunately it did not work with me. I have tried the following code

private void StyleGallery_SelectedItemChanged(object sender, GallerySelectedItemChangedEventArgs e)

        {

            Console.WriteLine(">>"+StyleGallery.SelectedItem);

            Console.WriteLine(">>>"+e.OldValue);

        }

and the result was "Elegant.Ui.GalleryItem" for each time i select a new item which is unexpected, i’ve expected to find an index of the selected item or any other unique identifier

Waiting for reply, Thanks

 

We have just checked this. The SelectedItem property changes each time when you select a new item in the gallery. When you handle the Gallery.SelectedItemChanged event, you can get an old value from in the EventArgs. The new value is in the SelectedItem.

void gallery1_SelectedItemChanged(object sender, GallerySelectedItemChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            //gallery1.SelectedItem;
            //e.OldValue;
        }

So this should work. If not, please elaborate so send a test app to our support mail box.

Dear

I would like to know whether ElegantRibbon supports Docking feature or not, and if it does would you send to me a screenshot?!!

 

Regards

 

The Elegant Ui doesn’t support dockable containers yet. We are going to add support for these in version 3.4. Right now we are releasing version 3.3.

Do you mean the ribbon itself can be docked? No, the ribbon cannot be docked. It replaces the menu line, which is at the top. If you mean something else, please elaborate.