I am thinking of implementing a ribbon GUI in one of my apps and of course want to adhere to the MS Guidelines so it feels like a normal ribbon, etc. But I'm trying to figure out how to solve a specific problem in dynamically changing the ribbon. I'm creating a concept game editor, please no question on why a ribbon as this is purely a ...
I am trying to work out a solution to share most of my VBA codebase across workbooks. This involves creating a .xlam file that would contain the shared modules & classes (+ their respective factories). I'm willing to use Office 2007's wonderful RibbonUI, and have that .xlam file declare a custom tab (Let us call it MyTab for the sake of...
If I recall correctly one of the limitations of the Office 2007 Ribbon UI was that you cannot use it to compete with other MS Office products like Word or Excel. Does this same restriction apply for the Windows 7 Ribbon UI? Thanx. ...
I'm interested on how to get the old menus back for Office 2007. I know you can buy add-ins that do this, but I'm more interested on how these are done? I want to implement this at home and just need to be pointed in the correct direction! Thanks! ...
When I use the custom layout template I created using Ribbon.SizeDefinitions, all buttons now have borders. Has anyone else had this problem? How do I get rid of the borders? Here is the XML. <!-- ***** Custom Template like ThreeButtonsAndOneCheckBox but with the checkbox on top ***** --> <Ribbon.SizeDefinitions> <SizeDefinition...
How can I have the pages in TRibbon right aligned? bidiModeRightToLeft has no effect ...
I have a handy little add-in that I developed for MS Office apps that I would love to use in Visual Studio 2008, which is not ribbon-based. Is there a way I can display my ribbon-based add-in interface inside of VS 2008? ...
Hello, I developed a plugin for outlook 2007 that adds a button to the office ribbon. I wanted to know if there is any possibility (programmatically) to not show the popup message when hoovering over the button with the mouse pointer. When I hover over the button, a little popup (tooltip) with the following text is displayed: MyAddinN...
Hi, I'm creating an application that uses Microsoft's Ribbon but I'm having issues with the RibbonContextualTabGroup. When this tab appears it changes the title text specified in the ribbon properties to "E.....", is there a way round this? Here's my code: <r:RibbonWindow x:Class="Sample.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.micros...
Hello i'm developing a sharepoint project and central admin pages (located in _layouts), and i want to use Ribbon bar. i have found this sample but i hope so, it is wrong.. http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/index.php/2009/10/creating-a-custom-ribbon-tab-in-sharepoint-2010/ page throw this error: Ribbon node must have...
Is there any way to change the size of the image in a ribbon control. It is autosizing my images smaller than I would prefer, is this changeable? ...
We are planning to implement Ribbon UI for our products. I am evaluating the use of Ribbon UI for our Network Manager Products. The result of this evaluation would decide Go or NO Go for Ribbon UI. Presently, Ribbon UI design guidelines do not talk Ribbon UI implementation for Enterprise Products. I am looking for is how suitable is Ri...
How to remove the recent document history in Excel Ribbon using VBA. I am using the code below, but it doesn't seems to work. Sub Button1_Click() For i = 1 To Application.RecentFiles.Count - 1 Application.RecentFiles(i).Delete Next i End Sub Thanks ... ...
Hi, I'm working in a ribbon project for Excel 2007, using Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO, I'm trying to make my ribbon's groups collapse into galleries when I resize the Excel window, this is a functionality that the other tabs in the ribbon have (the tabs that come with Excel). At first, I thought this wouldn't be that much difficult, I i...
We are using an IoC model for our WPF tools, and are quite happy with how it's all working out. Now we want to add a ribbon to a new tool we're creating, and I'm running into some design problems. I'm looking for guidance on how plugins in our tool can expose their interfaces to the main window's ribbon. We want to be able to continue ...
I'm trying to load prepopulate a CMFCToolBarImages instance with HBITMAPs and then pass this to a CMFCRibbonGallery but nothing shows up. I mean the gallery is on the ribbon, and it appears to be sizing itself appropriate but zero interaction or non-background coloured pixels in the central "gallery thumbnail" section. Thoughts anyone? ...
Hello! I've been looking on the site http://wpf.codeplex.com/ and found the Ribbon control finding my needs. I was wondering if it requires any Office licence things etc. on the machine, or this just needs the toolkit dll. Does it require Win-7 or is compatible on XP machine as well? ...
Hello, i noticed that the WPF Ribbon is bound to a XAML Usercontrol or window. Lets imagine i have a windws.xaml page with a WPF Ribbon at the top. I want to create an instance such that once i click on one of the WPF Buttons, i am taken to a different XAML UserControl or "page". How do i do this? Will this new page have the WPF Ribb...
Hi, I want to disable KeyTips displayed on the Office 2007 ribbon theme Menus. How can i do that? Thanks in advance, NK ...
Hi, I'm storing the urls to the images in a sql ce 3.5 database as strings. I want to retrieve the urls and display them in the main application window. Here is the code: DataSet myDataSet; private void OnInit(object sender, EventArgs e) { string connString = Properties.Settings.Default.SystemicsAnalystDBCo...