Hi Marc,
There's nothing else you can do with the current codebase. We have updated the code for the next maintenance release to invalidate the measure on the containing StackPanel in this scenario. That seems to resolve the issue.
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Re: WPF Localization Extension with actipro Ribbon
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Re: Closing the backstage
I decided to use the RecentDocumentMenu and Manager. Since it needed to look quite different from the default one I changed the template as needed. I have only one more thing to do. I like the pinning functionality but I would like to capture that event in my ViewModel. From the xaml I see that it the pin button executes
<Setter Property="Command" Value="{x:Static Input:RibbonCommands.TogglePin}" />.
I cannot change that, but I would like to register for a document pinned event so that I can do some processing. I have no clue on how to do that. Any suggestion?
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Re: WPF Localization Extension with actipro Ribbon
Thanks again. When do you expect the next maintenance release?
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Re: Closing the backstage
We don't have an event for that but you could make an attached behavior. Basically make an attached property and set that property in a Setter of that pin button. Then in the property changed handler for the attached property attach to the click event of the target button and do your processing there.
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Re: WPF Localization Extension with actipro Ribbon
Hi Marc,
It should be out in the next several weeks.
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ApplicationMenu binding ItemsSource and using ItemTemplateSelector
I have an ApplicationMenu that I'm binding the ItemsSource to an ObservableCollection and I know that the binding is happening correctly because I see an item in the menu for each item in the list however it seems that setting the ItemTemplateSelector is having no effect.
<ribbon:ApplicationMenu ItemsSource="{Binding MenuItems}"
ItemTemplateSelector="{StaticResource AppMenuTemplateSelector}"/>The breakpoint in the template selector is never hit.
Ben
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Re: ApplicationMenu binding ItemsSource and using ItemTemplateSelector
Does ItemTemplateSelector not work for ApplicationMenu items?
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Re: ApplicationMenu binding ItemsSource and using ItemTemplateSelector
Hi Ben,
Sorry but ItemTemplateSelector won't work here. You'd need to set the ItemsSource directly to the list of controls to put in the app menu.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
Is there also a feature to do what Adam showed in his first screenshot? That is, display a custom backstage-like fullscreen menu that is only used when you first open the application. Kind of like a quick start page.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
Hi Scott,
Sorry but nothing is built-in for that as of yet.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
We're also quite interested in the "backstage splash" or "cold open screen" or whatever it might be called. We're currently dumping users into the backstage "open" screen on cold open, but that doesn't quite match all the usage scenarios we have. I can see the motivation for this initial launch screen.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. How ideally would you like this additional open screen to work? It is a different size from the normal backstage in terms of the left gutter width. And I'm not sure of what object model you'd want in the API.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
For us, setting some kind of dependency property would be enough. We'd only use it on a cold startup, where the user accesses the app from its icon, instead of from a recent document or shell verb. This appears to be how Office apps use this screen, as well. We'd probably check how the app was starting and the backing view model would set a property which we'd bind to this DP on the UI.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
Same as Rory on the usage scenario.
I'm probably going to implement this in our app for now, as it's an important part of our "first 15 minutes with the app" story. I'll update this thread with any important design considerations I discover through the implementation, but here's what I have in mind for how you would implement it:
- Ribbon Window (or maybe Backstage) node would accept a new child node of type BackstageSplash.
- BackstageSplash would probably have a few DPs that control default presentation scenarios, but the core one is to show itself on startup and close itself on button click.
- BackstageSplash would expose two parts for templating: LeftPanel and RightPanel.
- Most people would put a header and the recent documents list in left panel, but this obviously would be up to them.
- Most people would put a WrapPanel or something similar to what Excel and Word use in the Right Panel.
- It would be useful if you also had a premade sample where a button in BackstageSplash switched you over to the regular Backstage (like Excel and Word have).
Any further customization would happen by overriding the whole template for BackstageSplash, but the core things you'd be doing for us would be:
- Handling the screen sizing, user interaction, and default theming
- Allowing us to define the visuals in context of the existing Backstage/Ribbon nodes without having to go down AP and Behaviors route for simple sceanrios.
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Re: Office 2013 ribbon theme
Right, as to content model, I was imagining the entire thing would just be a ContentControl where I could provide the template and draw it how I need in an app specific way. If the Headered Left/Headered Right template were to be adopted in the control itself, at least let me replace the entire ControlTemplate so I can manage the layout as needed (meaning even removing the split if needed).
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Overlay for ribbon window
Hi,
we are trying to create an overlay that takes the whole ribbon window and makes it impossible to use any of the controls in the underlying ribbon window. I added some code below to illustrate what we have done. If we do it like this, the overlay will just take the client area. In the title bar there are still controls that should not be used as long as the overlay is active, e.g. in the quick access toolbar.
Is there an easy way to have the overlay capture the whole ribbon window?
Thanks for any ideas
Marc
<ribbon:RibbonWindow xmlns:ribbon="http://schemas.actiprosoftware.com/winfx/xaml/ribbon">
<Grid>
<Border x:Name="Overlay" BorderThickness="0" Background="#20000000" Visibility="Visible" />
</Grid>
</ribbon:RibbonWindow>
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Re: Overlay for ribbon window
Hi Marc,
You could set Ribbon.QuickAccessToolBarLocation = None while that overlay is displayed. That will hide it.
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Re: Overlay for ribbon window
Thanks for your answer. This works, but we would prefer a solution with the overlay effect capturing the whole window und not just the client area. Is it possible to extend to overlay to make the title bar look grey as well?
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Re: Overlay for ribbon window
Hi Marc,
You could make an Adorner and put your element in that. We have an AdorneryDecorator right at the root of RibbonWindow's template, so it will cover the non-client area too.
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Re: Overlay for ribbon window
Thanks again, this led to a solution. After finding the "outerGrid" I am able to capture the whole window.
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