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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();

If you still have any questions, just contact us.

You can assign a custom context menu for any control or modify the default context menu on the fly (use the ContextMenu.ContextMenuShowing event). You can learn more about this from Context Menus.