RadRibbonBarGroup

[Michael]

Hi everyone,

I think that Telerik refers to a RadRibbonBarGroup as a "Chunk," which is contained in a RibbonTab.  I want to use contextual tabgroups as in the example: "RadRibbon/First Look" or something similar to "Windows 7 Paint".  I noticed that many "Chunks" occur in different tabs.

Is there a way to include a single chunk into multiple contextual / tab groups?  I have a color gallery with 30 buttons just like paint which I want to add to others tabs with minimal code. I also want to include a "Clipboard" chunk in several tabs.

What is the easiest way to do this?  Maybe you have a link that I didn't discover?

Thanks!

[Stefan]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for writing.

In the First Look example of RadRibbonBar the Clipboard group exists in both tabs. It is not moved from one to another. However, if you want, you can move it between the tabs, by using the CommandTabSelected event of the control. Attached you can find a sample application demonstrating how to achieve that. 

I hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other questions.

Kind regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Michael]

Hi Stefan, 

Thanks for the response and the sample app; it works perfectly. 

I do have a follow up question.  Is there a way to add a group to a tab at a certain position. The add function puts the group at the end. Right now, I clear the tab groups and then use the addRange function to put them in the correct order, but this causes the tab to blank out and flicker to rebuild.

Also, I have been using this link http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/ to look up documentation which is quite helpful.  What if I want to learn something about some other random method, for example: RibbonTab1.Items.OrderBy()? 

Thanks,
Mike.

[Nikolay]

Hello Michael

You can use the Insert method to add a group at a specific position among other groups:

args.CommandTab.Items.Insert(3, group1);

When using this API make sure that there are enough groups added already, so that the new group can be correctly added at the specified position.

When you want to learn something about a method of ours, you can navigate to our API Reference which is a part of the online documentation. As to the OrderBy method in particular, this is a standard extension method coming from Enumerable and you can read more about it in the MSDN Documentation. Regards,
Nikolay
the Telerik team