Question about RadRibbonBar Control

[Safiur Rahman]

Hi,

I just came across your RadRibbonBar control and had a question.  Basically, this is the type of text editor control we currently require but it seems that the control isn’t fully functional right out of the box.  I noticed that even on your demos, none of the buttons or menu options seem to do anything and you can’t edit any text while in MS Word mode.  Am I to understand that this RibbonBar control simply provides a skeleton and the widgets needed to develop such a text editing control and the functionality behind the buttons and menu options would have to implemented by those using the control?  Do you actually have a sample project that is fully functional? 

We actually do need something that just works and is ready for use.  Please advise.

Safiur

[Valentin.Stoychev]

Hello Safiur Rahman,

the RibbonBar controls is not a text editor control. It is a toolbar control. More info is available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)

Regards,
Valentin.Stoychev
the Telerik team

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[Safiur Rahman]

Valentin,

Thanks for the reply but I'm still a bit confused.  On the demos that you have uploaded, you actually do show a MS Word like text editor area or an MS Paint like area underneath the tool bar.  How would you create such a component?  We basically need a control with that type of functionality.  Is something like that available?

Safiur

[Tihomir Petkov]

Hi Safiur,

While the online demos of the RibbonBar control may look like MS Word and Paint, they are actually just mock-ups of those applications and only illustrate the RibbonBar control - the rest is not functional. As for how to develop a Word-like component - this is far from being a trivial task and would require a lot of work.

We are currently working on a native Silverlight rich text editor which will be available later this year, but of course won't have all of Word's features. As far as I know, there is no fully-featured Word-like component for Silverlight on the market today.

Best wishes,
Tihomir Petkov
the Telerik team

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