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Eric Linder
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XamMenu drop down persistence
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Hi,

I am working on a application where I want to achieve following using XamMenu:

  1. All the Menu Items needs to arrange Horizontally and not vertically. Looking at the feature browser, this looks fine and achievable. Please refer attached snapshot for details.
  2. Menu Items under at least one menu should remain displayed, even if we click away from Menu i.e. menu items should not disappear if we click on any other control on the form. In other words, we can say that menu drop down should permanently take its space.
  3. Menu Items in menu drop down should always start from left and not from below its Menu.

Can we achieve 2 and 3 using XamMenu? Any help?

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    Hi elinder,

    For requirement #1, this requires creating a style for the XamMenuItem and providing an ItemsPanel.  In that sample, the ItemsPanel is set to a StackPanel with a Horizontal orientation. 

    <Style TargetType="ig:XamMenuItem" x:Key="HeaderStyling">
    <Setter Property="ItemsPanel">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"/>
            </ItemsPanelTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

     

    For requirement #3, this will require adjusting the HorizontalOffset of the XamMenuItem's Popup.  I created a Behavior<T> to do this which you can see in the attached sample.

    For requirement #2, the best you will be able to get is setting the StaysOpenOnClick property on each XamMenuItem.  Make sure that the XamMenu's ExpandOnHover property is set to false.  Keeping the Popup open even when the XamMenu/XamMenuItem do not have focus is currently not possible.  Whether the popup is open or closed is handled internally by the control so this would be a product idea.  You can submit this as a new product idea here:  http://ideas.infragistics.com

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    Let me know if you have any questions.

    XamMenuRequirements.zip
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