Changing click behaviour of the Start Menu

[Christopher]

I would like to change the behaviour of the Start Menu on a Rad Ribbon Bar to be more like the windows start menu:  Click once to show and click again to hide.

I tried adding a new event handler to the             radRibbonBar1.RibbonBarElement.ApplicationButtonElement.Click event, but I'm not sure what I should be checking for (i.e. a menu objects visibility) to enable this.

What's the recommended way to achieve this?

[Deyan]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for your question.

I have played a bit with the ApplicationButton and I managed to find out how to achieve the behavior you need. I am using the ApplicationButtonElement.Click and ApplicationButtonElement.MouseDown events in my solution. Take a look at this code snippet:

void ApplicationButtonElement_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (!this.isDropDownOpen)
    {
        this.isDropDownOpen = true;
    }
    else
    {
         this.isDropDownOpen = false;
    }
}

void ApplicationButtonElement_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     if (!this.isDropDownOpen)
     {
                this.radRibbonBar1.RibbonBarElement.ApplicationButtonElement.HideDropDown();
     }
}

I have also added a boolean flag to my Form class in order to mark the state of the Application Button which is part of my solution.

I hope this will help you.

Do not hesitate to get back to me in case of further questions.

Sincerely yours,
Deyan
the Telerik team

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