Is it possible to reduce the height of the Ribbon

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Is it possible to reduce the height of the Ribbon

Sivaram posted over 16 years ago

Hi,

I have the following questions regarding the Ribbon.

Is there a way to reduce the height of the Ribbon? We want the ribbon look and feel and at the same time we don't have that many options to put on the Ribbon. Eventhough it has the option to minimize but at the times when we click one of the tabs, it looks too big (height wise) for our option set. Infact it looks wierd with one or two options.
Is there a way to add a listbox in ribbon group under one of the tabs?
Is there a way to clear/null the ribbon group caption (default "ribbonGroup1")?
I see Ribbon skinning the MDI form's caption bar but it does not for the child form caption bar. Does ribbon handles that or is there an alternative way to achive this?
Is it possible to hide the highlighted area (with red) as shown in the attached image. This menu appeares when we click the image (like office button) on the upper left corner.
Can we add a label to Quick Access toolbar? Preferrably to the right hand corner.

Regards

Sivaram

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Sivaram posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Thanks Mike Dour.
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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago in reply to Prabal

prabalmukherjee said:
Hi, Is it possible to increase the ribbon height by any chance? If not then please tell me how to get rid of caption of the group. I removed the caption and made caption area back color transpatrent. But looks like caption bar is still there. And it is taking a constant real estate from ribbon.

The ribbon height is determined by the height of three normal sized tools and they are controlled by the height of the default font used in the ribbon. So in a way, you can change the height of the ribbon by increasing the font height of the tools (on UltraToolbarsManager.Appearance.FontData), but you cannot directly control the ribbon height. If you want to remove the caption of the group, you would have to use a creation filter because there are no properties to hide this. However, it would still carve out space in the ribbon for the captions even if you removed their elements, so it still would not help you.
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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago in reply to Sivaram

Civaram said:
Does it mean "UltraToolbarsManager" must be there on all the forms eventhough we do not require any toolbars on the child forms? Can we configure the caption bar's back color in AppStylist (UltraToolbarsManager in AppStylist software)?

Yes, you will need an UltraToolbarsManager on each form. Only the UltraToolbarsManager will allow you to use a rounded form. I don't remember if you can accomplish this by styling the UltraToolbarsManager in AppStylist, but if you could, you would still need to put an UltraToolbarsManager on each form to which you wanted to apply that style.
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Prabal posted over 16 years ago in reply to Sivaram

Hi, Is it possible to increase the ribbon height by any chance? If not then please tell me how to get rid of caption of the group. I removed the caption and made caption area back color transpatrent. But looks like caption bar is still there. And it is taking a constant real estate from ribbon.

Please advise.
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Sivaram posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

1) It is unfortunate to know that Ribbon Control height cannot be controled. Microsoft Word has lot of options to display and make sense to have a ribbon with that height. But Infragistics when emulating would have added options to control the height.

2) Thanks for this and I will try with ControlContainerTool.

3) Setting ".Ribbon.Tabs[0].Groups[0].Caption = string.Empty;" worked for me.

4) UltraToolbarsManager on the child form seems to be working. Does it mean "UltraToolbarsManager" must be there on all the forms eventhough we do not require any toolbars on the child forms? Can we configure the caption bar's back color in AppStylist (UltraToolbarsManager in AppStylist software)?

5) Its the secons one: I am looking for an option to hide the right area of the application menu. Again my suggestion would be similar to what I mentioned in #1 (Infragistics when emulating would have added option to hide the right area in the application menu.). Infact I submitted the feature request.

Thanks
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