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Issue adding ribbon buttons directly to quick access toolbar

I am trying to add a Ribbon Button directly to the Quick Access Toolbar by using the CanAddToQuickAccessToolBarDirectly property. I have read in order to do this a command must be enabled on the button from this source (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/llobo/archive/2010/08/06/wpf-ribbon-basics.aspx#comments). When I add a command to the button i...

Change custom Office ribbon size on window resize

In our Office add-in we need the ribbon buttons to behave the same way as regular Office ribbon buttons do when you resize the form: as the form becomes smaller, some images also become smaller, then disappear altogether. I have no idea how to do the same for our custom ribbon group, the buttons always stay the same. Please note, this i...

Default/Common Ribbon Icons

I'm starting in WPF Ribbon development and it is very nice! My problem is to find (FREE) basic icons (like file save/open/etc, cut/paste/etc). Have you got some suggestion? ...

WPF/Ribbon: Any control like color picker? How to create a simple 1?

what control can i use to allow users to select color. or else how would a simple one be created. since this is just a practice project ...

WPF: Data binding & Display member path

i have created a RibbonGallery/ComboBox to display a list of installed fonts. but sometimes after entering say "V" this is what i get look at the text in the menu. [Font Family: Name=... why is that happening. code // xaml <ribbon:RibbonComboBox Label="Gallery"> <ribbon:RibbonGallery SelectedValue="ABC" SelectedValuePat...

RibbonComboBox MouseLeave Event doesnt fire

I cant get mouseleave to fire inside a ribboncombobox inside a ribboncontrolgroup inside ribbon tab inside a ribbon. I have a behavior that on mouse enter opens the dropdown and should close it on mouseleave except mouseleave doesnt fire I verified this using snoop and by setting a breakpoint on the event. Any ideas or workarounds? ...

WPF Ribbon - Auto Collapse when Height is Less than 250

Salam, Can any one help me please with the WPF Ribbon, I noticed that when you give the window that contains the ribbon control height less than 250 the ribbon auto collapse. after it auto collapses if you explicitly set it's visibility to Visible only the title bar is shown without the tabs. Any means to stop this behavior? ...

Microsoft Ribbon for WPF vs Infragistics Ribbon

Microsoft released Microsoft Ribbon for WPF (you can download it here). At the moment I am using Infragistics Ribbon. And question is: which one is better? Infragistics Ribbon control has resource washing (wchich I am using) and I don't think that WPF Ribbon has it. Also I heard that WPF Ribbon has some bugs. But probably WPF Ribbon...

Office 2007/2010 Custom Ribbon Export

I've gone through the tutorials on how to create a custom ribbon with Visual Studio. I see that you can export your Ribbon XML. Is it possible to utilize this ribbon with another document? Do you have to use Visual Studio at that point or is there a way to embed the custom ribbons into another document? (without VSTO) ...

[VB.Net for Office] Word fails to save document to PDF

Hi all, I'm programming a Microsoft Word plugin in VB.Net, and I have a code that calls a function to save the document as PDF (Office 2007). I use two functions: Public Sub SaveLandscape_CallBack(ByVal Control As Office.IRibbonControl) SaveEbook(True) End Sub And Public Sub SaveEbook(ByVal ForceLandscape As Boolean) Try ...

Error when trying to find Ribbon Control Resource Dictionary - Office2007Blue

I keep getting an error #6 (An error occurred while finding the resource dictionary "/RibbonControlsLibrary;component/Themes/Office2007Blue.xaml") when I try an load the Office2007Blue resource dictionary that is supposed to come with the WPF RibbonControlLibrary. Has anyone seen this problem and found a fix? I'm using version 3.5.4072...

WPF/RibbonGallery: Need help understanding binding and events

i need some help understanding the example posted by Lester's Blog: Using RibbonGallery Control. i am relatively new to WPF and not really familiar with MVVM i dont really understand how the ribbon gallery in the sample is bound and how to handle events like click/selection change to switch the font or color. ...

RibbonWindow transparent fonts

I create RibbonWindow with Ribbon toolbar. When I deploy my app and start it, all fonts in all nested controls dont shows. When I insert Ribbon toolbar in simple Window class, fonts shows, but toolbar work not correctly. What I need do to solve this problem? ...

hide, or disable, the RibbonWindow icon

.net 4 wpf, microsoft ribbon control library, how do I hide, or disable, the RibbonWindow icon so that users can't double click it to close the window/application? I handle the window closing event, but if the end user double clicks the icon it closes the window even if I set cancel to true within the closing event handler. ...

WPF: Styles not applied

i have a setup like <ribbon:RibbonGallery> <ribbon:RibbonGallery.Resources> <Style TargetType="ribbon:RibbonGalleryItem"> <Setter Property="Width" Value="24" /> <Setter Property="Padding" Value="0" /> </Style> <Style TargetType="Rectangle"> <Setter Property="Width" Value="1...

Does Ribbon dynamic tabs exist in Delphi 2010?

I am writing an application with ribbon in Delphi. I don't know what are these tabs called technically, but is there any way that I can have tabs that are added when a condition is met and have a different color? Just like the one when you insert a shape in Word 2007 ("Format" tab) that comes at the end of all the tabs and is dynamic (a...

How to change RibbonStatusBarPane text color ?

Hi My application is using MFC Ribbon(VS2008 + Feature pack9). I'm not able to change RibbonStatus Bar Pane text color.I override the virtual int DrawPaneText(CDC* pDC, const CString& strText, CRect rectText, UINT uiDTFlags) function but things are not working. In non Ribbon Status Bar there is a function void SetPaneTextColor(int nInd...

Office Ribbon control: how to get the reference of a control in a custom tab

Hi, I created a custom ribbon tab for PowerPoint 2007. The tab contains a dropdown box and a button. In the button's callback (onAction) I would like to execute different codes depending on which item is selected in the dropdown. However I do not know how to get a reference to the dropdown control from the button's callback. Is there...

Adding new line to button's title/description in outlook 2007 ribbon

Hi I am developing an add-in for Outlook ribbon 2007 using ATL/C++. The ribbon tab contains a dynamic menu which has a list of buttons generated at run-time. I would like to add new line to the button's label and/or description but not sure how. I tried adding newline character ("\n") to the button's label and description but it looks l...

MS Ribbon for WPF - How can I change the skin

Hi All, I'm using the latest version of MS Ribbon for WPF (3.5.40729.1). Downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2BFC3187-74AA-4154-A670-76EF8BC2A0B4&amp;displaylang=en and want to change the skin of ribbon. How can I change the skin ? Is microsoft planning to provide any skins in the next release? ...