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Next Recommended Reading. Net Core 6. Create A. Understanding Thread Starvation in. NET Core Applications. Exploring Numeric Streams In Java. What Is The Metaverse. Provides class handling for the TouchUp routed event that occurs when a touch is released inside this element. Called when the VisualCollection of the visual object is modified. Invoked when the parent of this element in the visual tree is changed.

Supports incremental layout implementations in specialized subclasses of FrameworkElement. ParentLayoutInvalidated UIElement is invoked when a child element has invalidated a property that is marked in metadata as affecting the parent's measure or arrange passes during layout.

Converts a Point in screen coordinates into a Point that represents the current coordinate system of the Visual. Converts a Point that represents the current coordinate system of the Visual into a Point in screen coordinates. Determines the next element that would receive focus relative to this element for a provided focus movement direction, but does not actually move the focus.

Raises a specific routed event. The RoutedEvent to be raised is identified within the RoutedEventArgs instance that is provided as the RoutedEvent property of that event data. Provides an accessor that simplifies access to the NameScope registration method. Removes the provided object from this element's logical tree.

FrameworkElement updates the affected logical tree parent pointers to keep in sync with this deletion. Attaches a binding to this element, based on the provided source property name as a path qualification to the data source. Searches for a resource with the specified name and sets up a resource reference to it for the specified property. Sets the local value of a read-only dependency property, specified by the DependencyPropertyKey identifier of the dependency property.

Returns a value that indicates whether to apply the style from the ItemContainerStyle or ItemContainerStyleSelector property to the container element of the specified item. Returns whether serialization processes should serialize the contents of the CommandBindings property on instances of this class. Returns a value that indicates whether serialization processes should serialize the effective value of the GroupStyle property.

Returns whether serialization processes should serialize the contents of the InputBindings property on instances of this class.

Returns a value that indicates whether serialization processes should serialize the effective value of the Items property. Returns a value that indicates whether serialization processes should serialize the value for the provided dependency property.

Returns whether serialization processes should serialize the contents of the Resources property. Returns whether serialization processes should serialize the contents of the Style property.

Returns whether serialization processes should serialize the contents of the Triggers property. Provides a string representation of the ItemsControl object. Returns a transform that can be used to transform coordinates from the Visual to the specified Visual ancestor of the visual object.

Returns a transform that can be used to transform coordinates from the Visual to the specified Visual3D ancestor of the visual object. Returns a transform that can be used to transform coordinates from the Visual to the specified visual object descendant. Returns a transform that can be used to transform coordinates from the Visual to the specified visual object.

Translates a point relative to this element to coordinates that are relative to the specified element. Simplifies access to the NameScope de-registration method. Reapplies the default style to the current FrameworkElement. Enforces that the calling thread has access to this DispatcherObject. Occurs when the IsCollapsed property is changed to true and the Ribbon is collapsed. Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the drag target.

Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the drag origin. Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag event with this element as the potential drop target. Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drop event with this element as the drop target. Occurs when the IsCollapsed property is changed to false and the Ribbon is expanded. Occurs when the value of the Focusable property changes.

Occurs when the input system reports an underlying drag-and-drop event that involves this element. Occurs when this FrameworkElement is initialized. This event coincides with cases where the value of the IsInitialized property changes from false or undefined to true. Occurs when the value of the IsEnabled property on this element changes. Occurs when the value of the IsHitTestVisible dependency property changes on this element.

Occurs when the value of the IsKeyboardFocused property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsKeyboardFocusWithin property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsMouseCaptured property changes on this element.

Occurs when the value of the IsMouseDirectlyOver property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsStylusCaptured property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsStylusCaptureWithin property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsStylusDirectlyOver property changes on this element. Occurs when the value of the IsVisible property changes on this element. Occurs when the layout of the various visual elements associated with the current Dispatcher changes.

Occurs when a manipulation and inertia on the UIElement object is complete. Occurs when the input device loses contact with the UIElement object during a manipulation and inertia begins. Occurs when an input device begins a manipulation on the UIElement object. Occurs when there is a change in the keyboard or mouse button state during a drag-and-drop operation.

Occurs when the stylus moves while over the element. The stylus must move while being detected by the digitizer to raise this event, otherwise, PreviewStylusInAirMove is raised instead.

Occurs when the cursor is requested to display. This event is raised on an element each time that the mouse pointer moves to a new location, which means the cursor object might need to be changed based on its new position.

Occurs when BringIntoView Rect is called on this element. Occurs when the selection of a Selector changes. Occurs when either the ActualHeight or the ActualWidth properties change value on this element. Occurs when the stylus moves over this element. The stylus must move while on the digitizer to raise this event. Otherwise, StylusInAirMove is raised instead. This member supports the Windows Presentation Foundation WPF infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Ribbon Class Reference Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Namespace: System. Ribbon Assembly: System. In this article. Gets the rendered height of this element. Inherited from FrameworkElement. Gets the rendered width of this element. Inherited from UIElement. Inherited from ItemsControl. Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is captured to this element.

Gets a value that indicates whether at least one touch is pressed over this element. Gets or sets a brush that describes the background of a control. Inherited from Control. Gets or sets a brush that describes the border background of a control. Gets or sets the border thickness of a control. Gets or sets the cursor that displays when the mouse pointer is over this element. Gets or sets the data context for an element when it participates in data binding.

Inherited from DependencyObject. Gets the size that this element computed during the measure pass of the layout process. Inherited from DispatcherObject. Gets or sets the font family of the control. Gets or sets the font size. Gets or sets the degree to which a font is condensed or expanded on the screen. Gets or sets the font style. Gets or sets the weight or thickness of the specified font. Gets or sets a brush that describes the foreground color. Gets a value that indicates whether a control supports scrolling.

Gets a value indicating whether this element has any animated properties. Gets or sets the suggested height of the element.

Gets or sets the template that is used to display the content of the help pane. Gets or sets the horizontal alignment of the control's content.

Gets the collection of input bindings associated with this element. Gets a value that indicates whether the control is using grouping.

Gets a value indicating whether this element has keyboard focus. Gets a value that indicates whether this element has been loaded for presentation. Gets a value indicating whether the current size returned by layout measure is valid. Gets a value that indicates whether this instance is currently sealed read-only. Inherited from Selector. Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a control is included in tab navigation. Gets or sets a value that indicates whether case is a condition when searching for items.

Gets or sets the template that defines the panel that controls the layout of items. Gets or sets the custom logic for choosing a template used to display each item. Gets or sets the outer margin of an element. Gets or sets the maximum height constraint of the element. Gets or sets the maximum width constraint of the element.

Gets or sets the minimum height constraint of the element. Gets or sets the minimum width constraint of the element. Gets or sets the padding inside a control. Gets the logical parent element of this element. Gets a value that uniquely identifies this element. Gets or sets the final render size of this element.

Gets or sets the locally-defined resource dictionary. Gets or sets the first item in the current selection or returns null if the selection is empty. Gets or sets the style used by this element when it is rendered. Gets a collection of all stylus plug-in customization objects associated with this element. Gets or sets a control template. Gets or sets the tool-tip object that is displayed for this element in the user interface UI.

Gets all touch devices that are captured to this element. Gets all touch devices that are over this element.

Gets all touch devices that are over this element or any child elements in its visual tree. Gets the collection of triggers established directly on this element, or in child elements. Gets or sets the vertical alignment of the control's content. Gets or sets the user interface UI visibility of this element. Inherited from Visual. Gets the number of visual child elements within this element. Gets or sets the offset value of the visual object. Gets the visual tree parent of the visual object.

Gets or sets the x-coordinate vertical guideline collection. Gets or sets the y-coordinate horizontal guideline collection. Gets or sets the width of the element. AddChild Object. AddHandler RoutedEvent, Delegate.

AddLogicalChild Object. Adds the provided object to the logical tree of this element. AddText String. AddVisualChild Visual. Defines the parent-child relationship between two visuals.

Arrange Rect. ArrangeCore Rect. ArrangeOverride Size. Starts an animation for a specified animated property on this element. BeginStoryboard Storyboard. Begins the sequence of actions that are contained in the provided storyboard. BeginStoryboard Storyboard, HandoffBehavior.

Attempts to bring this element into view, within any scrollable regions it is contained within. BringIntoView Rect. Attempts to force capture of the mouse to this element. Attempts to force capture of the stylus to this element. CaptureTouch TouchDevice. Attempts to force capture of a touch to this element. ClearValue DependencyProperty. ClearValue DependencyPropertyKey. CoerceValue DependencyProperty. ContainerFromElement DependencyObject.

Equals Object. Returns the common ancestor of two visual objects. FindName String. Finds an element that has the provided identifier name. FindResource Object. Attempts to set focus to this element. GetBindingExpression DependencyProperty.

GetLayoutClip Size. GetTemplateChild String. Inherited from Object. Returns an alternative logical parent for this element if there is no visual parent. GetValue DependencyProperty. GetVisualChild Int InputHitTest Point. Invalidates the measurement state layout for the element.

InvalidateProperty DependencyProperty. Re-evaluates the effective value for the specified dependency property. IsAncestorOf DependencyObject. Determines whether the visual object is an ancestor of the descendant visual object. IsDescendantOf DependencyObject. Determines whether the visual object is a descendant of the ancestor visual object. Determines if the specified item is or is eligible to be its own container. Measure Size.

MeasureCore Size. MeasureOverride Size. Called to remeasure a control. MoveFocus TraversalRequest. Provides class handling for when an access key that is meaningful for this element is invoked. Supports layout behavior when a child element is resized. Called when the DPI at which this View is rendered changes.

OnDrop DragEventArgs. OnInitialized EventArgs. Demo code to follow shortly. The RibbonController class presents methods for adding and removing RibbonBar objects, and forms the central point for the Ribbon Control library. Ribbons property accepts a RibbonBar object to add to the window as shown on the button to select the ribbon and the ribbon itself. The base class for ALL ribbon elements, implements IRibbonControl and is recommended as the base class for all custom controls. Contains the following main properties;.

The following figure shows a number of buttons in different states of. IsEnabled and. IsSelected ; note that the ribbon tabs themselves are special cases of ribbon buttons;.

RibbonBar represents one ribbon within the control, and may contain any number including none of RibbonGroupBox es. RibbonGroupBox es may be added or removed via. Add RibbonGroupBox box and. RibbonGroupBoxes may be added in any order via the Insert member of. Children as per any Microsoft component. In a similar way to that of RibbonBar , child elements are added via. RibbonDoubleButton provides a full height button split in half horizontally, with the top half acting as a normal button and with the lower half opening a sub-menu i.

The RibbonDoubleButton consists of three components, an image, descriptive text, and a context menu; an example of Word's paste button is shown below;. Note that sub menu is the standard System. ContextMenu and is not automatically styled by the ribbon control package. Supplying a value of null to the. SubMenu property results in the default context menu of a single entry of "No Sub Menu".

Should the intention be not to include a sub menu then the RibbonButton should be used instead. RibbonPreviewBoxes allows implementations of features such as that of the 'Styles' group in Word, i. Previews property. RibbonPreviewBox contains three significant properties;. Text sets the label in the preview e. NONE above ,. Image sets the image source of the preview, and. Header sets the group header when in popuped mode. RibbonPreviewBoxes contains the. When the number of children exceeds that of the viewable space the up, down, and popup buttons may be used all functional.

RibbonPreviewBoxes have two properties,. Text and. Image to set the content. An example RibbonPreviewBoxes is shown below;. RibbonThreeRowsLayout provides a layout manager for providing three rows of components at the standard ribbon heights and spacing. Typically this control is populated with RibbonThirdLabel s via the.

Position position, UIElement element method, where position refers to the row in which the component is added. Note that any number of components may be added to each row, however all rows will assume the width of the widest row. From experience of use of this control, it is recommended that only one child per row is added. Like RibbonThreeRowsLayout this component provides a row based layout manager, except rather than providing three rows it provides two rows.

Typically this control contains RibbonHalfButtonGroup s, which as the name suggests is used to group like items together using a unified border with rounded corners at the end. All children elements added to the RibbonHalfButtonGroup must implement IRibbonHalfControl providing methods allowing the control to correctly style the borders of the children. For ease of use it is recommended that all children of RibbonTwoRowsLayout are wrapped in RibbonHalfButtonGroup to allow correct border colouring, however a call to setFullBorder will suffice in cases where this is not adhered too.

An example of these controls usage are;. The layout allows insertion of three full height controls and scales them down when available space is reduced; typically this control is used only for RibbonButton and RibbonDoubleButton instances. The control resises down from 3 full height buttons to 3 full RibbonThirdLabels in a RibbonThreeRowsLayout to 3 RibbonThidLabels with image and context menu if applicable only, and visa versa.

Screen tips are simple to use, add, and even create. Custom screen tips should implement IScreenTip which requires a number of layout properties to be added to the control. All ribbon components extend RibbonControlBase which includes a property Tip which is used for getting and setting the ScreenTip. A library of ScreenTips is now included in ScreenTips. Two types of ScreenTip are currently available, TextOnlyTip displaying a heading, content text, and a help link and ImageAndTextTip displaying an additional image ; both are shown below, however the screenshots do not convey the annimation effects present in the controls.

Since the introduction of this library function, I have written a user interface for automatically generating the code to layout and link the controls to form a full ribbon bar. This tool is now available in the following article ribbonbuilder.