SandBar - .NET - V1.4.2

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Add Office and Visual Studio dockable toolbars and menus to your applications. SandBar is a powerful and lightweight toolbar and menuing library. It combines a rich and intuitive design time experience with a solid, extensible architecture and renderers that mimic Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP and Visual Studio 2005. Included are dockable toolbars, menus, statusbars, task panes and much more. The library includes full WYSIWYG designer support for menus and toolbars and a comprehensive API for extensive customisation and deep integration by your developers.

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What's new in V1.x?

• MenuPopupEventArgs now has a Cancel property

Features:

SandBar has a robust set of features, all geared to help the developer create the perfect toolbar/menuing system. Most of its features are highly customisable and extensible:

Toolbars

• Can be standalone in any container or part of a SandBar layout to allow docking and floating
• Can be docked at any orientation, allowing for vertical button layout
• Support imagelists, direct icon assignment or direct image assignment
• The user's chosen layout can easily be persisted to and restored from a file
• Any control can be hosted on a toolbar by extending base classes
• All text is fully localisable
• Right-to-left layout is fully supported for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic
• ContainerBars extend the toolbar to give the Office task pane look and feel
• StatusBars extend the toolbar to give specialised statusbar appearance and functionality
• Easy linking of toolbar items to menu items removes the need to write code to handle toolbar button activation
• Automatic toolbar conversion can convert your standard .net toolbars to SandBar toolbars
• In-situ editing of toolbar items at design time including drag-and-drop and clipboard support

Menuing

• Supports smooth animations including slide, fade and unfold
• Support imagelists, direct icon assignment or direct image assignment
• Completely proprietary menu system allows docking, floating and even hosted controls
• Any top-level menu item can be used as a context menu on any control
• Optional automatic MDI window list functionality
• Optional automatic menu merging functionality
• Little-used items can be initially hidden until the user clicks a chevron button
• Right-to-left layout is fully supported for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic
• Shortcut pairs are supported for advanced editing operations (e.g. Ctrl+K, Ctrl-C)
• Automatic menu conversion can convert your standard .net menus to SandBar menus
• Advanced menu designers allow you to design and configure your menu system visually

Look and Feel
Pluggable renderer system allows complete control over drawing of all toolbar and menu items.
Includes renderers to mimic Office XP, Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.

Layout Engine
SandBar includes a powerful layout engine which allows you to give your users maximum flexibility when customising your applications. SandBar uses this layout engine to power its various controls, including toolbars, menus, statusbars and containerbars. These controls can be docked to any location in your container or floated at any location on the screen. Docked bars can sit next to other bars and slide in to position automatically when the layout changes. They can optionally stretch to fill available space on their row.

As well as being movable, bars can also be torn off the sides of the form in to a floating state. They then stay hovering above your form, visible when the form is active, until the user drags them back in to a container or changes their position. While floating, a toolbar can be resized; items wrap intelligently to fit in the layout space available. Persisting the toolbar layouts configured by your users is made easy with two simple functions, which can optionally persist the visible states of all the buttons on the toolbar.

'Action Buttons' at the end of each toolbar provide access to any buttons that are hidden due to space constraints, and also allow the user to turn buttons on and off at will.

When short of space, buttons are either hidden and accessed via a 'chevron' that appears in the actions button on the end of a toolbar, or wrapped to the next line. Five different levels of importance can be applied to toolbar items, and those that are least important can be hidden first when space gets tight.

The SandBar menuing system can be heavily customised and extended by the developer. For instance, you may want a popup menu that looks different from standard menus in order to better present a specific set of options. An example of this is the dropdown colour selection tool in Microsoft Word, which shows many options on one row as well as an option to choose a custom colour. An example of writing a custom menu is provided with the SandBar demonstration application.

Look and Feel
There are three renderers included with SandBar; one that mimics Office 2003, one that mimics Office XP and one that mimics Visual Studio 2005. All of these renderers expose properties that allow you control over the colours they use as a base to draw with. The Office XP renderer lets you change the background and highlight colours, and the Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 renderers allow you to change the colours used to draw gradients and borders.

You can also inherit from these renderers or write your own from scratch to take complete control of the drawing process. Every part of the SandBar drawing process can be overridden and taken complete control of.

Designer Support
The designer support included with SandBar is unparalleled. Menu designers built from the ground up let you design complex menu systems visually, by expanding and collapsing them just as you would at run-time. ToolBar designers allow you to select and drag buttons from one location to another. You can even drag menu items from a menu on a menubar to a dropdown menu on a toolbar.

This level of designer integration will ensure you have a fully working, great looking application up and running in a matter of minutes, without even writing any code.

Localisation
All instances of English text in SandBar can be localised to any language.

SandBar is one of the only toolbar/menu libraries to support right-to-left menu layout for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Shown right is a SandBar layout mimicing the Arabic version of Microsoft Word with the Edit menu open.

Because the same advanced layout engine is shared between all bars, you can choose to make toolbars and statusbars right-to-left aware as well as just menus.