Prevent the Creation of Multiple Tool Instances By default, the user can create as many instance tools from a single root tool as they want. This behavior can be changed for a specific tool so that the tool cannot be instantiated more than one time in the WinToolbarsManager™ component. You can do this for as many ...
Prevent Toolbar Merging The WinToolbarsManager™ control supports the automatic merging of toolbars for MDI parent and child forms. So when a MDI child form that also contains an UltraToolbarsManager element is activated, its toolbars are merged with the UltraToolBarsManager element on the MDI parent form. It is po...
Process ToolClick Events This topic demonstrates how to process ToolClick events for a tool on an MDI child form. Even though an MDI child form’s toolbars and tools can be set to merge into the MDI parent form’s toolbars, the ToolClick events for tools that originated from the child will be fired on the MDI child ...
About the ProgressBar Tool In WinToolbarsManager™, tools are the basic building blocks of all toolbars and menus. Tools are analogous to MenuItems in standard .NET menus or Commands in Microsoft Office menus and toolbars. There are over 15 native tool types available in WinToolbarsManager. Each tool type can exist...
ProgressBar Tool With the new ProgressBarTool class, you can now display a progress bar within a toolbar or menu. This tool exposes several properties for controlling the appearance and style of the progress area. Although there is no edit mode for the ProgressBar tool, you can still click and double-click on the ...
ProgressBar Click the links below to learn about the ProgressBar tool: About the ProgressBar Tool Add a ProgressBar Tool to a Toolbar
Quick Access Toolbar The Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) is a toolbar that is always visible so the end user can quickly click more frequently used tools. By clicking the drop-down arrow on the right side of the QAT, the end user has the option to display the QAT below the Ribbon as well. You can also set this feature ...
Replace a Control’s Context Menu with a PopupMenu Tool The WinToolbarsManager™ component has the functionality to display a PopupMenuTool as the context menu for any other control on the form. This can be done by setting the ContextMenuUltra property. At Design-Time Add a PopupMenuTool to the Tools collection, and...
WinToolbarsManager Resource Strings Reference This topic provides a list of the WinToolbarsManager assembly resource strings that can be used to customize the internally-defined text elements of the WinToolbarsManager control. Resource strings include items such as dialog box captions, warning messages, alerts, et...
About the Ribbon The Ribbon is a unique user interface component that is so intuitive it can take as little as two mouse clicks to perform any task associated with the Ribbon. The first click involves a RibbonTab . These tabs contain RibbonGroups , which in turn contain tools. You may already be familiar with thes...