Adding Other Controls to the RibbonBar

[Chris Nickel]

Good Afternoon,

I am trying to add some controls to a chunk of the ribbon bar. the control in particular i am trying to add is the radcombobox. According to your instructions in the help documentation

<quote>To insert one of these elements into the telerik r.a.d.ribbonbar, right-click inside of a chunk or a button group and select Add an Item or Insert Sibling followed by the name of the element. You can then proceed to set the properties of the element using the Property window as you normally would. Refer to the linked topics for further information on the individual elements.</quote>

However, when i follow these instructions the only available items are:

• RadRibbonBarButtonGroup
• RadButtonElement
• ActionButtonElement
• RadRepeatButtonElement
• RadToggleButtonElement
• RadCheckBoxElement
• RadImageButtonElement
• RadGalleryElement

Am i missing something obvious? if now how can i get the combobox to appear in design time?

Thanks,

Chris.

[Chris Nickel]

Hello Again,

After a little more playing around i was able to add a combo box to chunk. first i had to add a horizontal button group. then add the combobox to the button group.

Although i have a follow up question. is it possible to add either Text, a text box or label to a chuck?

Thanks,
Chris.

[Mike]

Hi Chris,

We are glad you found a solution to your first issue. It seems that we should make the process more intuitive for one of our future releases.

Now, to your follow up question. It is possible to add any rad element to a chunk of the ribbonbar, even though not all of the elements are listed in the "Add Item" context menu. Those items can be added programmatically to the ribbon. Attached is an application the demonstrates this approach.





We will discuss the possible enhancement of the design time support to provide for such scenarios. We would appreciate any feedback on that.


Regards,
Mike
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[lprada]

Hi, a feature that will be great is the posibility of drag a drop a control form the toolbox to te ribbon. That will be great.

[Mike]

Hi,

Thank you for the nice suggestion. I will add this to our to-do list. If there aren't any technical difficulties we will introduce this for the upcoming SP1 release.


Greetings,
Mike
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[lprada]

Thank you, I am looking foward to the SP1

[seedy]

This works great, but leads me to another question.

Do RadTextBoxElement's have a property similar to 'PasswordChar'.  I am looking to use one for a password.

[Georgi]

Hi Corey,

Yes, you can reach it using the following code:

(radTextBoxElement1.Children[0] as RadTextBoxItem).PasswordChar

We intend to expose the RadTextBoxItem as a public property in the next release.

 
Sincerely yours,

Georgi
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[GUIjunkie]

i can add controls (through code) to a ribbon chunk, but cannot set the location. it doesn't seem to work.

what i'd like is to add labels, textboxes, etc...but lay them out to where they look nice. 

thanks...

[Georgi]

Hi GUIjunkie,

When you add items in a ribbonbar chunk you should create a hierarchy of elements using RadRibbonBarButtonGroup instances. Every instance has a StripLayoutPanel that could be horizontal or vertical. In these instances you could add you elements and the StripLayoutPanel would arrange them. In addition, you could set only margins and paddings to the elements of the hierarchy.

See the help that comes with the installation of our controls for more on using RadRibbonBar. You can also review the Building a Ribbon with RadControls for WinForms white paper.

If you need further assistance do not hesitate to write back.
 

Georgi
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[Christian]

Hi,
how can I insert a multi-column combox in a ribbonbar?
Kind regards
Christian

[Richard Slade]

Hello Christian,

You need to add a RadMultiColumnComboBox to a RadMenuHostItem and add that to the RadRibbonBar. The example below (just a ribbonbar on a form) shows an sample of this.

Imports Telerik.WinControls.UI
Imports Telerik.WinControls

Public Class Form1


    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
        ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        Dim people As New List(Of Person)
        people.Add(New Person(1, "Richard"))
        people.Add(New Person(2, "Peter"))
        people.Add(New Person(3, "Fred"))

        Dim multiColomnCombo As New Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadMultiColumnComboBox()
        multiColomnCombo.DataSource = people
        multiColomnCombo.ValueMember = "Id"
        multiColomnCombo.DisplayMember = "Name"

        Dim hostedControl As New RadMenuHostItem(multiColomnCombo)
        Me.RadRibbonBarGroup2.Items.Add(hostedControl)
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class Person
    Private m_Id As Integer
    Private m_Name As String

    Public Sub New(id as Integer, name as String)
        m_Id = id
        m_Name = name
    End Sub

    Public ReadOnly Property Name() As String
        Get
            Return m_Name
        End Get
    End Property

    Public ReadOnly Property Id() As Integer
        Get
            Return m_Id
        End Get
    End Property
End Class

Hope that helps
Richard