Re: How to use the office 2013 ribbon backstage style
Hi MartinIn my application's Application.xaml I have the the following: <Application x:Class="Application" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"...
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Thanks Dom I am trying it right now. Coming back in a couple of minutes.
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Thanks a lot Dom, this is the answer to our problem.The magic line missing was: ThemesMetroThemeCatalogRegistrar.Register() Is each theme needs to be register? Why it's not done by default?
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Hi MartinI honestly don't know the answer to that question, but I have gone on to add theme changing to an auto expander I added to the backstage and it seems to work quite nicely without my having had...
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Ok thanks Dom. I would like to see what Actipro could give us as information on this subject. This metro theme is really nice. We are playing with it and love it.
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Hi Martin,The themes in the Shared Library are able to register themselves by default as soon as ThemeManager is referenced (because they are defined in the same assembly) but the "Office*" and...
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Aaaaahhhhh. Thanks, now it's clear. The documentation is not covering that I think... no?
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Hi Martin,The first section in the Themes Getting Started documentation topic talks about having to call Register() for the Office and Metro themes.
View ArticleHow to add a logo in the backstage left column
Hi,We are trying to see if you can add a logo in the left column of the backstage (let say at the bottom) without changing the original Theme. Is it possible and how to do it if it's possible?...
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Hi Martin,We don't have a property for adding a logo image. So to do this, you would need to clone the Backstage default Style, update its Template, and put the revised Style as an implicit style in...
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I didn want to mention that you could put a logo image in the content area, faded in the background like this:<ribbon:Backstage x:Name="appMenu"><ribbon:Backstage.Background><ImageBrush...
View ArticleInconsistency between metro light and dark themes
Hi,I noticed a difference between the metro light and dark themes for the ribbon. In the light theme when the ribbon is minimized and you hover over a TabItem, only the tab text changes color. In the...
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Hi Bobby,Thanks for letting us know about this. We've fixed it for the next version. In the meantime, if you redefine these brush resources in your app's Resources (per the techniques described in...
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Hi,I've tried redefining it as you suggest but this also affects the maximized version of the ribbon, which is not what I wanted since now that looks pretty bad as well. Do you have an eta for the next...
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Hi Bobby,With that change above, it should be working the same as Metro Light does. Keeping the two hover resources as non-transparent was an oversight on our part for the Metro Dark theme. As far as...
View ArticleToolTip Visibility not working for PopupButton Content
I have been working with the Ribbon using the shared PopupButton control. I needed a double line tooltip, and I discovered that this can be done by embedding a StackPanel with two TextBlock controls...
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Hi Robert,If you collapse the visibility of the StackPanel, I would imagine that WPF would still show the ToolTip since it has content (the collapsed StackPanel), even though the content will arrange...
View ArticleUsing a three state ribbon checkbox in a ribbon popup button
I would like to have a popup button in my ribbon that contains checkboxes with IsThreeState enabled.I tried adding some simple xaml to one of my views and set IsTogged to null, but the visual for the...
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Hello,I tried the same sort of XAML in a sample app here and it worked fine for me. It started with an indeterminate state and then toggled through the three states as I clicked the CheckBox. This is...
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