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2026‑10‑05
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"Hi I have 3 BarCheckBoxes placed on a RibbonTabItem within a RibbonGroup. I want them displayed on 3 rows so should..."
2026‑08‑26
289 views
"Hi, We we use BarComboBox and it supports text search. The issue is that it doesn't match mid text, and I was hopin..."
2026‑04‑20
509 views
"Hi, Another question about the recent documents control from our migration from Ribbon to Bars. See previous ques..."
2026‑03‑06
491 views
"Hello! Is there a non-hacky way to position the dropdown arrow part of the button below the main part of the button, ..."
2026‑03‑04
497 views
"Hi, Background I'm converting our application from Ribbon to Bars. Problem While changing to use the BarCheck..."
2026‑03‑02
509 views
"Hi, I'm converting our product from Ribbon to Bars. I'm currently converting our recent documents view (backstage..."
2026‑02‑18
561 views
"If the ribbon content is complicated enough, I notice considerable freezes each time I first open a document of a kin..."
2026‑01‑28
736 views
"Hello,Is there any option to modify the overall button sizes? I’m not talking about the variant sizes on contro..."
2025‑09‑09
1,379 views
"I'm trying to learn how to use Bars library using the Getting Started Series (this has been very helpful). Following..."
2025‑08‑29
812 views
"I'm building a GUI around the WPF Dockable Toolbars example using your view model library and attempting to replicate..."
2025‑06‑19
840 views
"Can I achieve that in a way less invasive than manually replacing the Path.Data for the path within that button? I wa..."
2025‑06‑19
677 views
"Earlier here I've been advised to explicitly turn off `ImageProvider.CanAdapt` for problematic icons -- and back then..."
2025‑05‑08
941 views
"Hi I’ve got a BarSplitButton on a bars ribbon, I’ve set the label to some text but haven’t set th..."
2025‑02‑06
893 views
"Hi Trying to set the background color around the tab area of Bars Ribbon. I've tried a bunch of properties in App.R..."
2024‑12‑10
919 views
"Title says it all. I'd like to have dark screentips when the theme is dark. Can I achieve that easily? PS. How do I..."
2024‑12‑10
876 views
"How can I provide several custom dark theme icons, while keeping all the rest (vast majority) automatically generated..."
2024‑11‑16
1,061 views
"I have two problems with tooltips for Bars elements 1. I would love to have rich content in those tooltips, includi..."
2024‑10‑21
902 views
"I have a feature in most of my apps that allows a person to switch between a (Bars) Ribbon and Menu navigation which ..."
2024‑10‑14
910 views
"Dear team, In ribbon we have a lot of BarButton with only one Label and InutGesture and in most cases we would like..."
2024‑10‑11
801 views
"Hello, We’ve been using Actipro WinForms for a long time, and as part of revamping our product to WPF, we&rsq..."