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Hello.

We are evaluating Ribbon control and trying to find the way to include Gallery component into DropDown control insetad of regular ’context menu’ popup.

The behavior we need is very similar to Gallery in ’compressed’ mode, when it hides items and shows drop down control with specified fixed icon.

Is this possible?

When you place a gallery in a ribbon, it can have one of the following informativeness levels (see figure below):

a) DropDownSmallImage
b) DropDownLargeImage
c) Expanded



You can learn how to manage control informativeness from Adjusting Adaptive Layout.

If it is not what you want to know, please let us know.

Thanks in advance. Your unswer was helpful for me!

Leonid.

Thanks for the answer. There are few examples of what i’m looking for:

http://www.mangoorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/putting-the-powerful-excel-to-word-step-1.png
http://blogs.tamtam.nl/Ferry/content/binary/MarginGallery-9-21-2005.png

Thanks,
Leonid.

Thank you for your interest in Elegant Ribbon. In general, it is understandable what you are looking for. But would you send us a screenshot that illustrates what you mean? You can send it to support@prof-uis.com. Thank you.

Hi, I’ve downloaded an evalution version 2.2 of Elegant Ribbon. Among others there is a control named NavigationBar.
In its description it’s written: "Represents a control that allows the user to navigate between content sections".

Is there some more detailed of this control.
What I managed to do is to add buttons and separators between them - as I understood in such way the sections are created.
Is there some more functionality in this control. I actualy need a control which will provide sliding sections with some other controls in them.

Another QAT question: When I add a checkbox control to the QAT it will call the command OK, but I want to use the state of the checkbox to set a class level variable:

myBool = CheckboxTest.Checked;

This works fine when I check/uncheck the checkbox on the form, but when I check/uncheck the QAT checkbox, we get out of sync - that is the command appears to execute before checkbox on the form changes state. Any ideas?

Thanks

We will look into the problem and let you what is wrong as soon as possible. Meanwhile you can try another approach, which we believe is more preferable when using commands. Just subscribe to the Command.DataChanged event of the command associated with CheckboxTest if you want to be informed of data changing independently of any control. You can use the command’s Data property and cast it to a CheckState enum so you can determine if the user checked or cleared the check box.

Is it possible to make controls from a form other than the one that contains the ribbon available to the quick access toolbar? For example, on your RibbonUISample, there is an options form. Can the controls on the options form be added to the quick access toolbar on the main form?

Thanks

You can do this in code by adding a reference to a control to the Ribbon.QuickAccessToolbarControls collection. But there is no support for the Add to QAT item in the context menus for these controls. The full support for adding/removing controls to/from QAT is available for in-ribbon controls only.

Greetings. I Have two questions
1. - because with the version 2.1 if it recognizes my license, however when I install the version 2.2 it doesn’t recognize it to me?
Here I send them the code where I give of high the license.

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Data.OleDb


Public Class Form1
    Public Sub New()
    Elegant.Ui.RibbonLicenser.LicenseKey = "XXX..."
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub
End Class
2. - I am working with Visual Studio 2005. I read the I articulate on "Using Commands in time of design" and I followed the 10 steps. The problem is that I don’t see the commands in Commands Designer dialog, but I revised one of the example applications in vb (ribbon UI sample) and in that case if all the commands appear.
Not you if it is because I am using the version "Visual Studio 2005 ".
Here I send them the code that generates me when I believe I believe a new command.

’------------------------------------------------------------------------------
’ <auto-generated>
’ This code was generated by a tool.
’ Runtime Version:2.0.50727.42
’
’ Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
’ the code is regenerated.
’ </auto-generated>
’------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Option Strict Off
Option Explicit On

<Assembly: Elegant.Ui.CommandSourceAttribute("WindowsApplication1.ApplicationCommands")>
Namespace WindowsApplication1

’ This class is required for commands suppport.
’ Do not modify this code inside the editor.

Public Class ApplicationCommands

<System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("Microsoft.Usage", "CA2211:NonConstantFieldsShouldNotBeVisible")> Public Shared rrrr As Elegant.Ui.Command = New Elegant.Ui.Command("rrrr")
End Class

End Namespace

I just purchased the ribbon control and have been playing around with it. I was developing a form, and suddenly the ribbon disappeared. All the tab names were still there, and as long as I click on one of the tabs, the ribbon reappears, but as soon as I click on the form below it, the ribbon disappears again. I though maybe this was a property that you could set, to have it hide the ribbon when its not being used, but I cant seem to get it to come back...? Is this a bug, or is there a property Im missing?

Thank you for the test project and screenshots. It looks like you set the Ribbon.Minimized property to true, so it appears minimized. You can restore the normal look by setting this property to false.

Hello,

I want to select a ComboBoxItem by finding the string in the item. The following code works for the standard windows forms combobox but not with the Elegant Ribbon ComboBox:

ComboBox1.SelectedItem = ComboBox1.Items.Item(ComboBox1.FindStringExact("ItemtoFind"))

It always selects the first item. Does FindStringExact work with the Elegant Ribbon ComboBox?

Thank you

Balazs

We are sorry but we failed to reproduce this bug. We added several items to the combo box and used the following code:

comboBox1.SelectedItem = comboBox1.Items[comboBox1.FindStringExact("Item 5")];

Item 5 was successfully selected. Would you send us a test project that reproduces the problem? Thank you.

Hi, is there any support (planned) for high contrast Windows scheme. Currently the Ribbon resizes correctly to the bigger font, but uses the same color scheme as with non-high contrast settings. Thanks. Joerg

Thank you for the details. Yes, when the user turns on the high contrast mode, this event can be caught up and processed in a way that instead of a regular theme, a high contrast theme can be used instead. Of course, this contrast theme should be painted by the ribbon itself. So the Windows only lets Elegant Ribbon know that the high contrast mode is on.

Thanks, actually my request was not about a high contrast "theme", but the support of the built-in Windows high-contrast mode (e.g. press left Shift + left Alt + PrintScreen). Particularly this means simply painting the ribbon with system control/menu/whatever colors (as you probably do with system font sizes currently). Just turn the high-contrast on and start up Word 2007 under these settings. That would surely be enough already.
Most of the ribbon products I evaluated and looked at have absolutely no support even for bigger system fonts (not only for visually-impaired people), let alone the high-contrast mode (when menu items become white on white background etc. etc)

Hello,

Elegant Ribbon 2.2, vb2005

i want to set up an Image and an Screentip for an combobox item (Like office Ribbon XML)

<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">
<ribbon startFromScratch="false">
<tabs>
<tab id="MyTab" label="My Tab">
<group id="MyGroup" label="My Group">
<labelControl id="myLabel1" label="Sample:" />
<labelControl id="myLabel2" label="Combobox" />

<comboBox id="Combo1" label="ComboBox"
onChange="MyComboBoxCallbackOnChange">
<item id="item1" label="one" imageMso="_1" screentip="First" />
<item id="item2" label="two" imageMso="_2" screentip="Second"/>
<item id="item3" label="three" imageMso="_3" />
</comboBox>
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>

see also:http://www.accessribbon.de/en/?Access_-_Ribbons:Ribbon_XML___Controls:Combobox

How can i do this?

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

At the moment, there is no way to set screentips for combo box items. You cannot set images for combo box items in a simple way either. We will add these features in the next release. Thanks for the request.

Hello,

Elegant.Ribbon2.2, vb2005

I have 4 tabs

how can i select the tab 3 to see the tab in the Ribbon with code?.

Ribbon1.TabPages(2).Select() and
Ribbon1.TabPages(2).Focus()

dont work

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

You can do this with the code like

Ribbon1.CurrentTabPage = Ribbon1.TabPages(2)

Hello,

VB 2005, RibbonControl 2.1

1. How can i change the Caption from "Recent Documents" to an other Text?

2. I have add the following Code to add Items to the Recent Documents.

recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("First.docx")
recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("Second.docx")
recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("Next.docx")
ApplicationMenu1.RightPaneControl = recentDocumentsControl

How can i get the text of the Control when i click on a Button eg: "Second.docx"

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

Hello,

Great! Thanks

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

Here is the code you are looking for

Public Sub New()
   InitializeComponent()

   Dim recentDocumentsControl As RecentDocumentsControl = New RecentDocumentsControl()

   recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("1")
   recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("2")

   AddHandler recentDocumentsControl.ItemClick, AddressOf RecentDocumentsControl_ItemClick
End Sub

Private Sub RecentDocumentsControl_ItemClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RecentDocumentsControlItemClickEventArgs)
   Dim s As String = TryCast(e.Item, String) ’ clicked item
End Sub

Hello,

thanks for the reply.

Can you giv eme a sample code (vb2005) for:

I have add the following Code to add Items to the Recent Documents.

recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("First.docx")
recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("Second.docx")
recentDocumentsControl.Items.Add("Next.docx")
ApplicationMenu1.RightPaneControl = recentDocumentsControl

How can i get the text of the Control when i click on a Button eg: "Second.docx"

Thanks
Gunter Avenius

Unfortunately, you cannot change the caption at the moment. But in the new version, the Caption property is added to the RecentDocumentsControl class. The new version should be released tomorrow.

Hello everybody;

I am a senior software engineer .I decided to use ribbon gui in my next project. Unfortunately i neeed it to support C++ /CLI .net because i both use c# and C++/CLI .net on my projects.Is there a support for C++ /CLI .net .if there is not ,do you think to add such a support. C++/CLI .net is commonly used and It is the perfect way to add .net support to previous codes in C++.So I think there should be such a support.Moreover, since managed .dll is ready it is a matter of producing some .h files ...Will you add such a support in near future?

Thanks;

Hi, sorry for my English.

We are using Elegant Ribbon in an MFC Document / View Model. The Ribbon is inside an Docking Toolbar hooked to the top of the MainFrame. The Docking contains a CWinFormsView hosting the Ribbon.

Is this use correct or exist another way to implement the ribbon using c++/cli? Can I find examples?

Thanks

Hello,

I have a hard to find in the doc if there is an event raised when a tab is selected. I need this kind of event because I want to display different type of control in the client area of my form when tab pages are selected. For example, if there is two tab pages, one for "edit" and one for "view", if the current tab is "view", then my code needs to be notified when the tab page "edit" is selected and vise versa. Is there any event doing that and if yes what is its method invocation?

Many thanks for your help
Didier

Hi, does Elegant have docking windows/pane controls? If not, is this feature going to be included in future? Also do you have a toolbar control such that I can add toolbar to a control and it has the same "skin" and colour scheme as the rest of my form? Thanks.

Hi,

How do I get a group box to display a scrollbar when the number of controls exceeds its width, I do not want to reduce or increase informaivness of the contained control, I need the controls to overflow the group but then be brought into view using a scrollbar or something of that sort. The functionality I am looking for is similar to the sample where the informativeness and various controls is displayed in a sidebar below the ribbon to the left and can be scrolled from the top to the bottom.

Samuel

Hi,

I want to disable customization of the Quick Access Toolbar (ie) I don’t want the dropdown that allows users to reposition the toolbar or add commands to it, how do I hide this feature. I want the QAT to display only the commands I add at design time.

Samuel

No, you cannot do this in the current version but we will support this feature in the next release, which is coming soon.

That isn’t good enough for me, I don’t want the user to add or remove controls but still need to place some funtionality on the title bar. Is there a way I can overide teh QAT to disable this functionality alone ?

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way I could customize how the background of a ribbon was rendered? I attempted to subclass RibbonTabPage and override it’s OnPaintChildren, however I get exceptions thrown when I try to add this class to the ribbon using this->ribbon1->TabPages->AddRange(...)

What I would like to do is add a watermark to the background of the panel that contains our company logo.

Any help appreciated,
Craig.

Hello,

VB2005

How can i use a Image from a ImageList in a Ribbon Control (Button)?

Thanks

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

Hello,

thanks!

Best Regards
Gunter

Hello,

how can i change the size of a Ribbon Control (Button)

ribbonButton.Informativeness.MinimumLevel = ??

Best regards
Gunter Avenius

Hello,

thanks for the reply.

I will change the size (Button RibbonGroupButtonInformativeness.FixedLevel.LargeImageWithText")
To: RibbonGroupButtonInformativeness.FixedLevel.SmallImageWithText with Code.

And:

How can I add an "SmallImageWithText" - Button with Code

I have (this adds an Button on the Group):
..
ribbonButton.Text = "Button " & intControlsZaehler.ToString
ribbonButton.Name = "ctl" & intControlsZaehler.ToString
ribbongroup.Controls.Add(ribbonButton)

Thanks

Best Regards
Gunter