Actipro Bars for WPF Features

• Ribbon - Ribbon implements an Office-like user interface, complete with dynamic variant sizing, modern themes, fluent animations, and extensive customization capabilities. Ribbon consolidates all user interface commands into a single location, which is easy to use and scales up and down well, thereby providing fast access to all commands, regardless of window size.
  • Variant Sizing - Ribbon consolidates all commands into a single location, which is easy to use and scales well, thereby providing fast access to all commands regardless of window size. The entire layout of child controls can be tailored to ensure the most important commands are prominently available. Through the use variant layout phases, you can achieve nearly any dynamic layout that you find in Office.
  • Classic and Simplified Layout Modes - Classic layout mode uses a taller ribbon with a combination of large buttons and multi-row groups of controls, and is ideal for large applications with lots of commands. Whereas Simplified layout mode is a modern refinement that uses a single row of controls and supports overflow. Ribbon can instantly toggle between the two modes.
  • Key Tips - Key tips provide easy keyboard access to any control on the ribbon or in its popups, even on backstage.
  • Screen Tips - Screen tips are advanced tool tips with a standardized layout for bar controls, and intelligently display below the ribbon.
  • UI Density - The user interface can switch between compact, normal, and spacious densities. Spacious densities are more touch-friendly.
  • Minimization - The end user can minimize the ribbon, reducing it to only show the tab row. While minimized, clicking on a ribbon tab shows the tab's content in a popup.
  • Quick Access ToolBar - The QAT may be located above the ribbon, below the ribbon, or hidden completely. It is a centralized place to store the most commonly-used commands and can be customized by the end user.
  • Contextual Tab Groups - Contextual tab groups may be displayed when the context of the selection is appropriate for them to be visible. For instance a Picture Tools contextual tab group's tabs may become active when a picture is selected in a document.
  • Ribbon Window - Used as a WPF Window replacement that provides tight integration with the ribbon control, allowing the QAT to be placed in the title bar, and backstage to fill the window.
• Galleries - Galleries display a collection of related items or commands in a visually-appealing way, and may be used directly in a ribbon or in any menu.
  • Fonts - Font family and size selection are galleries that are generally displayed from a combobox's drop-down menu, and can support preview on hover.
  • Colors - It's simple to display a custom color palette using the many available display options. Colors can be categorized and color shades can be generated.
  • Bullets and Numbering - Use custom rendering to display bullets or numbering systems, with the gallery items reflecting an example of the output.
  • Text Styles - Text style galleries can show a group of font and text appearance attributes applied as a set.
  • Symbols - A symbol gallery provides quick access to insert commonly-used symbol characters.
  • Size Selection - Move the mouse over a custom-sized grid to support selection of a size, such as for new table row and column counts.
• Backstage and Application Menu - Both the newer backstage and traditional application menus are available for use with ribbon. The ribbon's backstage or application menu is displayed by clicking the 'File' application button in the upper left side of the ribbon. It generally consists of various application-wide commands such as those for new, open, save file operations and other functionality like printing.
  • Fluent Animation - Subtle fluent animations are used throughout Ribbon to delight the end user, such as when switching tabs and toggling Backstage.
  • Application Menu - Simpler applications may prefer a popup application menu instead of backstage. Optional additional content can be added to the side or a footer with buttons at the bottom of the menu.
  • Recent Documents - A recent document control allows an end user to see and access recently-opened documents, and to optionally pin them.
• Toolbars and Menus:
  • Standalone Toolbars - A standalone toolbar control is flexible enough to be used in several contexts, and can host any of the galleries or controls that are used in a ribbon.
    • Primary Toolbar - A standalone toolbar used as a window's primary toolbar can have a modern ribbon-like appearance.
    • Secondary Toolbar - A standalone toolbar used within a tool window can be set to host content more densely.
    • Overflow - Any controls that don't fit on the toolbar are moved to an overflow popup, where they may be accessed.
  • Menus - Numerous menu item controls provide advanced functionality within menus, like split menu items and galleries, and are specifically designed to seamlessly appear alongside more traditional menu items.
    • Galleries - Galleries are used in menus when a visual representation of a command is appropriate. Menu gallery items can look like in-ribbon gallery items, or be set to look like standard menu items such as with this borders gallery.
    • Context Menus - All of the menu item controls and galleries may be used in context menus as well. This context menu contains a paste options gallery with three options.
    • Large Size Option - While small menu items are typical, several kinds of menu item controls can be toggled to display in a large size. This is ideal when they need more emphasis, or if an extended description should be displayed.
• Controls - This product includes these UI controls, for use in applications built with the WPF platform:
  • BarButton
  • BarCheckBox
  • BarComboBox
  • BarContextMenu
  • BarMenuGallery
  • BarMenuHeading
  • BarMenuItem
  • BarMenuSeparator
  • BarPopupButton
  • BarSeparator
  • BarSplitButton
  • BarSplitMenuItem
  • BarToggleButton
  • BarTextBox
  • BarToggleButton
  • KeyTip
  • RecentDocumentControl
  • Ribbon
  • RibbonApplicationButton
  • RibbonBackstage
  • RibbonContainerPanel
  • RibbonContextualTabGroup
  • RibbonControlGroup
  • RibbonFooterControl
  • RibbonGallery
  • RibbonGroup
  • RibbonQuickAccessToolBar
  • RibbonTabItem
  • RibbonTabRowToolBar
  • RibbonWindow
  • ScreenTip
  • StandaloneToolBar