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I’m a newbie in office customization and i would ask if it is possible with this program to add a button to office 2007 (word) with a personal image and a standard function associated.

Thank you in advance

Hi,

I’m evaluating the ribbon for use in one of my company’s products.  I want the titlebar to look normal so after adding a ribbon to my form I remove the FormFrameSkinner.  Also I don’t want the Application Button or Quick Access Toolbar so I hide/disable these, however, an empty bar remains just above the ribbon and is just taking up space - how can I hide this?

Thanks,

Colin

With latest versions the ribbon without Application button and QAT looks like on the picture below, without an empty bar:

I have the same problem. In my project i have a secondary form and i don’t want to show application button (and its bar) but only ribbon menu.

Any news about it?

Thanks

Marco

Hi,

I’ve just downloaded the evaluation version of the ribbon and it looks great, however, I’d like to have the ribbon render using the system colors. The examples I’ve seen say that I should do the following:

SkinManager.LoadEmbeddedTheme(EmbeddedTheme.System)

But System doesn’t appear in the EmbeddedTheme enumeration, only Office2007Black, Office2007Blue and Office2007Silver.  How do I get it to use system colors?

Thanks,

Colin

Is there a way to access to color tables used in the ribbons?

I have other controls I am majking and would like to make them match theh ribbon when the ribbon thmese changes

I am adding buttons to a popup at runtime (baseds on available items in a collection). I want to include the name of an item, as well as a brief description about the item. Here is my code (roughly...)

         Elegant.Ui.Button button = new Elegant.Ui.Button()

         button.Text = "Text";

         button.DescriptionText = "description";

         button.DefaultSmallImage = Properties.Resources.FilterChainSmall;

         button.DefaultLargeImage = Properties.Resources.FilterChainLarge;

         m_filterChainPopup.Items.Add(button);

         button.InformativenessFixedLevel = "Elegant.Ui.ApplicationMenuButtonInformativenessLevel:LargeWithDescription";

However - the fixed informative level does not stick. button.InformativeNess is null... I have a workaround - I attach tot eh event IsPopupOpenChanged and do the work there. But there is a noticeable flash as they change. I tried IsPopupOpenChanging but that has no effect either. I have also tried setting the informativeness before adding it to the items collection. Please help!

Brandon

Hello,

Elegant Ribbon 3.1, vb2005.

I want to create a ButtonGroup with three ToggleButtons in the QAT with Code.

How can i do this?

This works not:

Dim btn As New Elegant.Ui.Button
Ribbon1.QuickAccessToolbarControls.Add(btn)

You should associate a command with a control in order to add it to the quick access toolbar.

For example:

Button b = new Button();
b.Command = new Elegant.Ui.Command("SomeCommand");
ribbon1.QuickAccessToolbarControls.Add(b); 

I wold lke to put my own context menus together for the ribbon. The default context menu seems to take over everything... Can I turn it off?

Brandon

WooHoo!! Gotta love reflection!

Thanks, works exactly as needed.

I am still having trouble with this.

I have a standard windows ContextMenuStrip context menu associated with a control on the ribbon (from within a drop down). When I activate the context menu I actually get both the standard ribbbon context menu, and the windows context menu. I don’t want to use the ribbon context menu because the content of the ribbon drop down is a plugin. And I don’t want to have to require plugin writers to have Elegant UI Libraries, nor do I want to go through the trouble of abstracting out menu commands. I would like to just disable the default context menu for the ribbons completely. Can I do this?

Brandon

The option you are looking for is not available through the public Elegant Ribbon program interface but we will add it in the next release. At the moment you can achieve this by using the following code:

InitializeComponent();     // Form initialization

// This code irreparably turns off default ribbon context menu
FieldInfo fi = ribbon1.GetType().GetField("_ContextMenuManager", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
IDisposable disp = fi.GetValue(ribbon1) as IDisposable;
if (disp != null)
disp.Dispose();

I would like to have a couple of toggle buttons on a PopupMenu drop down. I am using them in a pseud gallery type control and filter contents based on the checkpressed state of the toggle button. However, whenever the toggle button is pressed, the drop down closes. Is there a way to disable this behavior?

Hello
We are developing a multilanguage application using Elegant Ribbon 3.1. The property "Localizable" is set to true in all forms in our project. Main form contains Ribbon control with several elegant ribbon’s buttons. We found, that designer stores values of "Text" property of all buttons in the FormaMain.resx file, in a such way:


<data name="button5.Text" xml:space="preserve">
<value>Select database</value>
</data>


So, there are not problems with localization of the button’s text - it’s enought to substitute a resources file with translated text.
On the contrary, the values of ScreenTip.Text properties are stored in FormMain.designer.cs file as


this.button5.Name = "button5";
this.button5.ScreenTip.Text = "Switch to another database";
this.button5.SmallImages.Images.AddRange(new Elegant.Ui.ControlImage[] {


It looks, like it’s not possible to localize text of tooltips using standard way through resources. Is it a bug or feature? Are you planing to change anything in the next versions of Elegant Ribbon?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

but when will there be a new Version, because we have to ship our Software very soon (in different languages)

Thanks

We plan to release a new version in late April or May. If you need the bug fix, please contact us via email so we can tell us how you can download it.

Thank you. The fix will be available in the next version

Thank you for reporting this bug. It will be fixed in the next release.

Hello,

We have purchased Elegant Ribbon some time ago and are applying it to a set of our new products. However, we mentioned that it does not have all system controls in the library. Currently we are missing Tabs, GroupBox, Multiline TexBox, ListBox (Checked ListBox). According to some posts on the forum we understood that many new controls will be available in the new version, however, new version release date is still not clear. Our major problem is that till now we relied on these controls to appear in the new version and we have our own release in October, so it’s very crutial for us to know when the new version will be released and what controls it will contain.

We sincerely hope to receive some feedback asap. Thank you very much for your time!

Regards,

Endre

Hi,

How can I change the display names for controls in the Customize Quick Access Toolbar dialog box? They currently appear as things such as "administrationRibbonTabPage" or "reportsRibbonTabPage", and I need this dialog to be far more user friendly than that.

Thanks,

James

Dear friends, I buy a 2 License Elegant Ribbon with 90 days of Tech support but in place of take a 195$ payment I receive 295$ charge into my credict account.

I great any notice about this.

Thanks for advanced.

Francisco J.

GIS Analyst.

Dear friends,

I’m trying to show one menu items in the Application Menu and if I haven’t any item after the first items, I cannot view the content of the Application menues:

I show the problem with some images. In time of design I have not problem, but If I execute my application I don’t see the last items of the menu.

If anybody have the same problem and can comment me I great you.

Cheers.

Francisco J.

GIS Analyst.

This issue is fixed. If you have a valid subscription, please request the update by email. Of course, this fix will also be available in v.3.2.

We will check this issue and, if confirmed, let you know how to workaround this as soon as possible.

I am facing the same problem. Please let me know the work around as well.

Thanks,

Achinth

I have installed the last version of Visual Studio 2008 and I ask before buy the tool Elegant Ribbon if it support this Visual Studio Version.

Another question is if my license when I purchase is permanent or is limit to any period of time.

Thanks.

Francisco J.

GIS Analyst.

Many thanks a lot of.

I purchase it this morning :D. I’m very great of the use. Is a few complicated but I wait to learn the use of this as soon possible.

Thanks new.

Francisco J.

GIS Analyst.

Thank you for your interest in Elegant Ribbon. VS 2008 is fully supported (see Supported IDEs, Frameworks and Languges). The license you purchase is permanent. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Hello,
ihave a few question and one big problem:

I want to compile ProfSkin static libary.

it failed at ProfSkin.h line 144

//#if (defined _AFXDLL) && (! defined __STATPROFUIS_WITH_DLLMFC__)
//    #if (defined __PROF_UIS_FOR_REGULAR_DLL)
        new CDynLinkLibrary( the_ProfSkin_ExtensionModule );//this line 144 why are lines before uncommed ?
//    #endif
//#endif

if i comment it out the lib will be compiled but the compiled exe crashed at runtime.

I use Prof uis version is 2.63.

1 Question:

It is possible to use the skins static and have samoebody solve this problem ?

The Docu says "yes"
But starting from Prof-UIS 2.52, we introduced an easy way to enable the resource-dependent features in static builds.

2. Why there are so many libs delivered that not be able to compile (12 build errors) !

3. In fact what can i do static and what must be dynamic linked ?

Greats Dirk

Hello,

The document "2007 Microsoft Office Fluent UI Design Guidelines" contains description of optional "Mini Toolbar" feature.

"The Mini Toolbar appears next to the mouse cursor when you select text with the mouse. It provides quick and efficient access to the most useful text formatting controls"

As I understand, currently this feature is not implemented in Elegant Ribbon.
Are you planing to implement it?

Thanks in advance,
Sincerely,
Victor Derevyanko

Hi

I am using version 2.1 of Elegant Ribbon, I have entered the license key in the Form_load event as following:

        Elegant.Ui.RibbonLicenser.LicenseKey = "KEY"

But I am still getting evaluation popups. Please help me asap so I can get through this. I am using VB.NET 2008.

Regards,

Mujtaba Panjwani

Hi,

My application uses Elegant.Ribbon and ELegant.Common controls with System theme. By default, ribbon and common controls use Office2007Blue theme. I hadn’t find a way to change default settings to the system theme, so I switch theme programmatically after start of application before first using of ribbon controls.


[STAThread]
static void Main() {
Elegant.Ui.SkinManager.LoadEmbeddedTheme(Elegant.Ui.EmbeddedTheme.System, Elegant.Ui.Product.Ribbon);
Elegant.Ui.SkinManager.LoadEmbeddedTheme(Elegant.Ui.EmbeddedTheme.System, Elegant.Ui.Product.Common);
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
.... }


This approach worked fine on the trial version. Now, we have bought Elegant.Ribbon library, so i have modified the code above to:


[STAThread]
static void Main() {
Elegant.Ui.SkinManager.LoadEmbeddedTheme(Elegant.Ui.EmbeddedTheme.System, Elegant.Ui.Product.Ribbon);
Elegant.Ui.SkinManager.LoadEmbeddedTheme(Elegant.Ui.EmbeddedTheme.System, Elegant.Ui.Product.Common);
Elegant.Ui.RibbonLicenser.LicenseKey = "BLA-BLA-BLA";
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
...}


Now, my application doesn’t work without assembleis "Elegant.Ui.Common.Theme.Office2007Blue.dll" and "Elegant.Ui.Ribbon.Theme.Office2007Blue.dll" and i conldn’t find a way how to fix it. Of course, I don’t want to include these assembleis to setup - my applications doesn’t use them at all and thier size is approx 1.4 mb ...

Can anybody tell me how to avoid this problem?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Victor Derevyanko

Hello once more,

German words tend to be long. Very long. So long that it is worth hyphenating the label when the button is in LargeImage* display mode.

[Image]
Supercallifragilistic-
expialidocious

However, when the informativeness of a button changes from Large* to Small*, I suddenly have a hyphenated word in a single line, e.g. "Supercallifragilistic- expialidocious".

Is there anything built into ElegantRibbon that can solve this? Or do I have to hook the InformativenessLevelChanged event and muck about with the Text property?

Best regards,
Ben

Hello,

Elegant Ribbon 3.0, vb2005

I create a Gallary Control like this:   

With Me.Gallery1
....
	 .MaximumItemsInRowCount = 1
	 .MinimumItemsInRowCount = 1
	 .PopupMinimumItemsInRowCount = 1
End With

And add three Items

The Gallery show like this:

Item

Item

Item

When i add a Button to the Gallery Control the Gallery show like this:

Item Item Item

Button

I want to see:

Item

Item

Item

Button

Whats wrong?

Thanks

Gunter

Hello Support Team,

Thanks!

Gunter