RibbonWindow TitleBar Color

[Mike]

Hello!

Is it possible to change the titelbar background color (window titlebar) to the Office 2016 theme accent color?

[Milena]

Hello Michael, 

You can change the AccentColor from the Office2016 Palette and this way the window titlebar and ribbontabs panel will have the same color: 

Office2016Palette.Palette.AccentColor = (Color)ColorConverter.ConvertFromString("#7FFF00");

If you need to change the Background of the RibbonTabs panel - you can set TitleBarBackground property of RibbonView. This way you will achieve the look from the attached picture.

Please have in mind that if you want to apply our Telerik themes to RibbonWindow you need to set RadRibbonWindow.IsWindowsThemeEnabled property to false as you can read here. 

I hope this information is helpful.

Regards,
Milena
Telerik by Progress

[Mike]

Thank you, worked like a charm!

[Matt]

Hello all,

I have a similar goal, but I want to set the title bar of the app to a specific color myself based on what database the program connects to.

However, I can't get the first step, setting RadRibbonWindow.IsWindowsThemeEnabled = false, to work because according to the article you linked to, I need this line in my resource dictionaries:

<ResourceDictionary Source="RibbonWindowStyle.xaml" />


 

But the program can't find that file anywhere.  Where does that file come from?

Thanks!
Matt

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Matt,

You need to create the file manually and add the corresponding Style in it. This step is described in the Setting a Theme section of the article linked in Milena's reply. For your convenience I will post the information also here:

1. Create a new ResourceDictionary called RibbonWindowStyle.
2. Define a new Style targeting your window that derives from RadRibbonWindow (for example the MainWindow) and base it on the default RadRibbonWindowStyle which is located in the Telerik theme resource files.
   

   <ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
                       xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
                       xmlns:local="clr-namespace:RibbonWindow_ImplicitStylesDemo"> 
       <Style TargetType="local:MainWindow" BasedOn="{StaticResource RadRibbonWindowStyle}" /> 
   </ResourceDictionary> 

3. Merge the RibbonWindowStyle in the App.xaml Resources, after the Telerik theme resource files.

Note that this step is required only if you use NoXaml dlls and the implicit styles theming approach.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
Progress Telerik