About the TextBox 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 as ...
TextBox Click the links below to learn about the TextBox tool: About the TextBox Tool Add a TextBox to a Toolbar
The Ribbon Application Menu In the upper-left corner of the Ribbon, you will find a round button. This button is the application menu for an application using the Ribbon, which is the default. Of course, if you’d like to use the standard File menu included with WinToolbarsManager™, you can hide this button by sett...
The Ribbon Now Supports Glass in Windows Vista Staying on the cutting edge of technology is important for application developers. Realizing this importance, we’ve added the ability for the Ribbon to display glass in the caption area when being viewed on a Windows® Vista™ system. The glass effect allows the Ribbon ...
Tool Orientation In previous versions of Ultimate UI for Windows Forms, when a toolbar is docked to the top or bottom (or floating), the tools are arranged from left to right with their text displaying horizontally. When a toolbar is docked to the left or right, the tools are arranged from top to bottom with their...
Tool StatusText When a tool is activated, text is automatically displayed in an AutoStatusText type panel of an UltraStatusBar on the same container as the WinToolbarsManager™. Previously, this value was based on the resolved ToolTip for the tool that was activated. You can set the StatusText property of each tool...
Transform a StateButtonTool into a Checkbox Prior to Ultimate UI for Windows Forms 2007 Volume 1, the only way to place a check box or option set on a toolbar was to use either the WinCheckEditor™ or WinOptionSet™ controls in a control container. On top of that, control containers weren’t even supported on the Rib...
Transform a StateButtonTool into a Radio Button In 2007 Volume 1, WinToolbarsManager™ gained the ability to display check boxes and radio buttons through the StateButtonTool , specifically, the ToolbarDisplayStyle property of the StateButtonTool. You can transform a StateButtonTool into a check box, or by setting ...
Understanding WinToolbarsManager This is a great place for you to start learning about the WinToolbarsManager™ component, and its key features and functionalities. The topics in this section will give you a better idea of why you would want to use WinToolbarsManager in your applications. Click the links below to g...
Use a Previously Created RibbonGroup as a MiniToolbar {Warning} Because standard toolbars, RibbonGroups, and the MiniToolbar all share the same object model, creating a MiniToolbar with the same content of a RibbonGroup is quite simple. When creating your RibbonGroup, just make sure that you add the tools by using...