RadRibbonGroup or Tab UserControl

[Psibernetic]

Hi I am trying to determine how I would need to go about encapsulating a Ribbon Tab so that it can be used in several different places, otherwise I will have to write some slightly unpleasant code for determining the context of the contextual tab and making the buttons interact accordingly.

[George]

Hi Psiberbernetic,

Thank you for contacting us.

You can create a class which derives from RibbonTab with some predefined elements inside:

public class MyRibbonTab : Telerik.WinControls.UI.RibbonTab
{
    private RadRibbonBarGroup group;
    private RadButtonElement button;
    private string name;

    public MyRibbonTab(string name)
    {
        this.AccessibleDescription = name;
        this.AccessibleName = name;
        this.IsSelected = false;
        this.Name = name;
        this.Text = name;
        this.Visibility = ElementVisibility.Visible;
    }

    public RadRibbonBarGroup Group
    {
        get
        {
            return this.group;
        }
    }

    public RadButtonElement Button
    {
        get
        {
            return this.button;
        }
    }

    protected override void CreateChildElements()
    {
        base.CreateChildElements();

        this.group = new RadRibbonBarGroup();
        this.group.AccessibleDescription = "Group";
        this.group.AccessibleName = "Group";
        this.group.Name = "Group";
        this.group.Text = "Group";
        this.group.Visibility = ElementVisibility.Visible;

        this.button = new RadButtonElement();
        this.button.AccessibleDescription ="Button";
        this.button.AccessibleName = "Button";
        this.button.Name = "Button";
        this.button.Text = "Button";
        this.button.Visibility = ElementVisibility.Visible;
        this.button.MinSize = new Size(100,50);
        this.button.InvalidateArrange(true);

        this.Items.Add(this.group);
        this.group.Items.Add(this.button);

        this.button.Click += button_Click;
    }

    void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RadMessageBox.Show("Click");
    }
}

You can add the tab as follows:

for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
    this.radRibbonBar1.CommandTabs.Add(new MyRibbonTab("Tab " + i));
}

I hope this helps.

Regards,
George
Telerik