Ribbon Groups {Warning} Each tab, whether normal or contextual, contains groups. Use groups to keep similar tools together. In a word processing application, you may want to group all tools involving the font of a selection, including tools such as bold, italics, and underline. A group’s tools can be laid out eith...
Ribbon Tabs {Warning} There are two types of Ribbon tabs: normal and contextual. A normal tab (referred to as simply tab), is always visible (unless you set its Visible property to False). A contextual tab is visible only in specific situations. For example, you may need an Image tab to show whenever an image is s...
Ribbon Microsoft® Office 2007 includes several new and exciting styles. Microsoft completely redesigned their entire UI scheme to make items on toolbars and menus more accessible and easier to locate. Infragistics has adapted this new UI metaphor into our very own Ribbon. Using the Ribbon, there is no need for a m...
Saving and Loading a Navigation History Before You Begin Saving and loading a user’s settings is a standard task that most developers need to handle in an application. The Navigation toolbar exposes a navigation history, which keeps track of the end user’s actions. WinToolbarsManager™ does not expose functionality...
Scenic Ribbon Look and Feel This topic highlights the style changes in the WinToolBarsManager™ component, when using the Scenic Ribbon style. The new style can be applied by setting the Style property to ScenicRibbon either at design time or through code. In Visual Basic: In C#: Application Menu: The Application M...
Set Shortcut (Mnemonic) Keys for a Tool Shortcut and mnemonic keys can be used to access a tool via the keyboard instead of clicking on the tool with the mouse. Shortcut keys will be displayed in the drop down of a PopupMenuTool . At Design Time In the Customize editor in the Tools tab select one of your tools and...
Show the MiniToolbar Programmatically {Warning} The MiniToolbar isn’t called mini for its size, but for its portability. You can place any tool in the MiniToolbar and achieve the same effect as a standard toolbar. Just think of the MiniToolbar as floating toolbar that you can have pop up anytime or anywhere. Creat...
Show the MiniToolbar with a Context Menu {Warning} You can show the MiniToolbar automatically whenever the WinToolbarsManager context menu is shown. To do this, you need to set the MiniToolbar’s AutoShow property to OnContextMenuClick (which is the default setting). You need to set the Context Menu by using WinToo...
WinToolbarsManager Smart Tag In Visual Studio 2005 (.NET Framework 2.0), each Ultimate UI for Windows Forms control/component is equipped with a Smart Tag. By simply selecting the control/component, a Smart Tag anchor appears. When you click this anchor, a pop-up panel appears, providing you with quick and easy ac...
Specify a Different Appearance for a Tool on the Toolbar and Menu You can have the same tool displayed on a toolbar and on a menu at the same time, and give each instance of the tool a different appearance. You do this through the AppearanceOnToolBar , and AppearanceOnMenu properties. The HotTrackAppearanceOnToolB...