A maximized RibbonForm on Win7 and XP

[DoomerDGR8]

My Ribbon form is slightly cropped on my Windows 7 dev machine. But on a windows XP machine, the borders are beautifully visible. See attached files.

[DoomerDGR8]

Any help please.

[Richard Slade]

Hi Hassan,

I've got both a Win7 and XP machine here. I'll try it out with just a RadRibbonForm. What theme is that you're using?
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

Main theme is Desert. So far, all themes are behaving the same way.

[Richard Slade]

Hi Hassan,

Attached are 2 images. One from my Win7 64 bit laptop, and the other from my XP Desktop. To be honest, I can't really see much difference.
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

I have this in my form's constructor:

public AppMDIRibbon() {
  InitializeComponent();
  AllowTransparency = true;
  AllowAero = true;
}

I have AllowAero as true as I think it looks more beautiful. having AllowAero as false will produce the correct result but very ugly.

[Richard Slade]

Here you are, the same settings as you have. To be honest, I still can't notice a particular issue.
Let me know if you spot something in it though
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

Sorry, I meant AllowAero = false is what I require...

So,

public AppMDIRibbon() {
  InitializeComponent();
  AllowTransparency = true;
  AllowAero = false;
}

[Richard Slade]

Hi Hassan,

See attached. Still not seeing much difference.
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

Well, the cut-offs are clearly seen as the round application button and the whle Left and right borders are gone. see my original winxp screen.

[Richard Slade]

Just a thought, but your AutoScaleMode property on the form is probably set to Font. Could you try setting it to none and see if that makes any difference.
otherwise, I admit I am unable to think of anything else on this one at the moment.
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

Sadly, nothing happened. It's not an issue for me but it means a lot to the designers and the QA guys. They make my life very difficult ans as the Telerik demos work properly, they blame me for this. I can set AllowAero = true fom now and loose the cool Form buttons (Minimize, Maximize, and Close) but you Telerik guys gotta check this one out.

[Richard Slade]

Sorry I couldn't help further on this one Hassan. If I can think of anyhting else, I'll be sure to let you know
Richard

[DoomerDGR8]

Okay. No Problem. You helped me out a lot on different things. This one is weird. I'll wait.

[Ivan Petrov]

Hello Hassan,

I cannot reproduce the behavior you have described, but what you can do is increase the margin of the main panel hosting the groups of the RadRibbonBar which will allow you to see more of the white background. I have attached a screen shot to ease your way to the margin property you need to set.

I hope this will help you. If you need further assistance I would be happy to provide it.

Greetings,
Ivan Petrov
the Telerik team