Copyright © 1999-2026 Actipro Software LLC. All Rights Reserved. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:54:14 Z 60 7533706f-4511-43c1-aec3-6fa0ecc55599-123527 Okay. Thanks. I'd found a workaround that took over the menu construction. 2026-04-27T11:54:14Z 7533706f-4511-43c1-aec3-6fa0ecc55599-123519 Hello, Actually both sizes of the recent documents menu have the same context menu. The only thing is that the one with Open/Pin options is only if it's in a Backstage or not. It's not currentl... 2026-04-20T19:30:50Z 7533706f-4511-43c1-aec3-6fa0ecc55599-123517 Hi, Another question about the recent documents control from our migration from Ribbon to Bars. See previous question: https://www.actiprosoftware.com/community/thread/26709/reducing-clutter-in... 2026-04-20T08:28:31Z 6a305e87-c092-4fe3-b1a5-ac95bc587b5d-123467 Hi Alex, Sorry but we don't have anything built-in to alter the location of the arrow. Visual Studio keeps the arrows on the right for split/popup buttons, even for vertical toolbars. 2026-03-06T21:52:15Z 6a305e87-c092-4fe3-b1a5-ac95bc587b5d-123466 Hello! Is there a non-hacky way to position the dropdown arrow part of the button below the main part of the button, instead of to the right of it? This would be helpful for vertical toolbars with ... 2026-03-06T16:03:46Z e67eb812-7f51-4737-af35-9e04b3d0fa52-123461 Hi Jason, Thanks for catching and reporting that scenario. We have found the problem and corrected it so only null Label values will trigger Label auto-generation from Key, Command, etc. This u... 2026-03-04T20:59:20Z e67eb812-7f51-4737-af35-9e04b3d0fa52-123460 For the moment I am using the following: <bars:BarCheckBox.Resources><Style TargetType="TextBlock"><Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed"/></Style></bars:BarC... 2026-03-04T16:51:28Z e67eb812-7f51-4737-af35-9e04b3d0fa52-123459 Hi, Background I'm converting our application from Ribbon to Bars. Problem While changing to use the BarCheckBox in one particular place it seems as though we can no longer suppress the Lab... 2026-03-04T16:31:16Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123458 That looks better thanks. If I have further Bars conversion questions I'll post them as separate threads. 2026-03-04T09:33:42Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123456 Hi Jason, The simplest thing would be in our Recent Documents QuickStart, add this in the first bars:RecentDocumentControl: <bars:RecentDocumentControl.ItemContainerStyle> <Style Targ... 2026-03-03T20:30:01Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123455 Or failing that, it might be okay to remove the separator lines from the small variant. We display the recent documents lists in a splash screen and a backstage tab. The former is more constraine... 2026-03-03T09:47:49Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123454 Yes, that's exactly it. I would like to remove the following from the large variant: the headings the date time column the separators Basically bring it closer to how it was in the Ribb... 2026-03-03T09:06:34Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123451 Hi Jason, The legacy Ribbon's recent document control had large and small variant sizes. The large variant would render the filename and a description under it, with a tooltip that had the full ... 2026-03-02T22:18:09Z f3836710-2b8c-4f2f-a536-862d28e9f6df-123450 Hi, I'm converting our product from Ribbon to Bars. I'm currently converting our recent documents view (backstage). The new RecentDocumentControl has added: Grouping by date Two columns... 2026-03-02T17:02:55Z 233c5e4e-e0f1-4c7b-a769-264488ecee1d-123439 I've created a ticket as you suggested. Even though I've managed to cut the freeze time to rather short (sub-0.5s) delays, I would still love to provide users a completely smooth ui experience, so ... 2026-02-20T01:12:25Z 233c5e4e-e0f1-4c7b-a769-264488ecee1d-123438 Hello, Yes there will be measure passes made on the controls, and more if more variants, since it needs to map out the widths at which variant changes should be made for each variant. That being... 2026-02-19T20:51:33Z 233c5e4e-e0f1-4c7b-a769-264488ecee1d-123437 Fully MVVM, with considerable amount of custom controls. Jetbrains' profiler said that it was all deep in MeasureOverride calls, with lots of logic around VariantSizing. I managed to decrease the f... 2026-02-19T16:32:38Z 233c5e4e-e0f1-4c7b-a769-264488ecee1d-123436 Hi Alex, We aren't aware of anything like that. Our Ribbon in the Bars demo has a fairly complex first few tabs and it opens almost instantly. Could you provide more information on how you are ... 2026-02-18T20:30:38Z 233c5e4e-e0f1-4c7b-a769-264488ecee1d-123435 If the ribbon content is complicated enough, I notice considerable freezes each time I first open a document of a kind. Next open documents of same kind open instantly. Now, is there a way to someh... 2026-02-18T02:43:08Z 0ddef891-bf6b-4546-acea-8244ee2ea81f-123425 Hello, If you use the Ribbon in Simplified layout mode, it will have larger buttons in general. If you use it in Classic layout mode, the sizes are not easily configurable though, as everythin... 2026-01-28T20:15:25Z 0ddef891-bf6b-4546-acea-8244ee2ea81f-123424 Hello,Is there any option to modify the overall button sizes? I’m not talking about the variant sizes on controls, but about making all variants (small, medium, and large) bigger, for example... 2026-01-28T13:46:37Z 1d2e5640-2691-47ab-980d-1067a39b81cd-123154 Sorry for the confusion. The Bars MVVM library is part of our open source repository, but I realize changing the source isn't easy. What you did is a perfectly valid solution until the updates to... 2025-09-10T13:02:22Z 1d2e5640-2691-47ab-980d-1067a39b81cd-123153 Thanks or your quick response. However, that's not possible without the source. My solution was to initialize the Content value of all of the RibbonBackstageTabViewModel backstage items in the M... 2025-09-09T22:17:55Z 1d2e5640-2691-47ab-980d-1067a39b81cd-123152 Hi Bob, We're glad to hear you have found the Getting Started Series helpful, and so thankful you brought the issue with Step 9 to our attention! There was a change in our v25.1.0 release that br... 2025-09-09T20:34:45Z 1d2e5640-2691-47ab-980d-1067a39b81cd-123151 I'm trying to learn how to use Bars library using the Getting Started Series (this has been very helpful). Following the code changes in Steps 1 - 8, I have been able to follow the examples and se... 2025-09-09T17:35:51Z 5f9e9277-ffe9-47ce-9efd-b4ee6238e653-123128 Hi Michael, With the Bars controls, including those for dockable toolbars, we went with a more standard command-based design like that found in other native WPF controls. Whereas the older legac... 2025-08-29T20:43:51Z 5f9e9277-ffe9-47ce-9efd-b4ee6238e653-123127 I'm building a GUI around the WPF Dockable Toolbars example using your view model library and attempting to replicate behavior I was able to produce in standard toolbars with simple bindings to a c... 2025-08-29T18:58:28Z 53bbd9bd-58c1-46c4-9fe9-3bd656fd40f1-123021 Hello, For the next release, we will update the 8x8 Path used for the RibbonGroupLauncherButton glyph to be in a DataTemplate in RibbonGroupLauncherButton.ContentTemplate so that it can be custom... 2025-06-19T22:04:56Z 76175393-84a3-4e01-889c-b490e7a3c31f-123020 Hello, The image provider theme variations are not intended to be used with the chromatic adaptation feature. The documentation for the theme variations feature says: This feature should not... 2025-06-19T19:13:18Z 53bbd9bd-58c1-46c4-9fe9-3bd656fd40f1-123019 Can I achieve that in a way less invasive than manually replacing the Path.Data for the path within that button? I want one of the launcher buttons to display a question mark (?) because I intend t... 2025-06-19T13:10:35Z 76175393-84a3-4e01-889c-b490e7a3c31f-123016 Earlier here I've been advised to explicitly turn off `ImageProvider.CanAdapt` for problematic icons -- and back then looks weren't exactly a priority for me so I just bookmarked this, assumed ther... 2025-06-19T11:42:15Z 36649a21-0ad1-46dc-be91-c3e4d28a6907-122937 Hi Yes I'm trying to implement a "not an officially supported scenario" but was just wondering if a button without an image was possible in Classic layout mode. 2025-05-13T06:57:57Z 36649a21-0ad1-46dc-be91-c3e4d28a6907-122935 Hi Miles, Keep in mind that the Classic layout mode for Ribbon is intended to always be three rows tall. All its layout mechanisms are geared for that. If you add four buttons to a RibbonContro... 2025-05-12T12:11:50Z 36649a21-0ad1-46dc-be91-c3e4d28a6907-122923 Thanks that fixed the fallback image removal but with four buttons it placed them in a wrap panel arrangement of two columns and three rows on an extra tall ribbon. After experimenting and readin... 2025-05-09T06:18:05Z 36649a21-0ad1-46dc-be91-c3e4d28a6907-122918 Hi Miles, A large-sized BarSplitButton is always going to show an image, using the fallback one as needed since otherwise you end up with blank space where the image would be. I don't believe th... 2025-05-08T16:47:06Z 36649a21-0ad1-46dc-be91-c3e4d28a6907-122917 Hi I’ve got a BarSplitButton on a bars ribbon, I’ve set the label to some text but haven’t set the small or large image source as I only ever want text on the button. When the... 2025-05-08T05:12:01Z 5773b1e1-bf39-44b2-aa2c-93fb415585dc-122798 Ah thanks, made me look at the mainwindow background property. Had already set the main window up with Background="{DynamicResource MyColour}" but commented it out for some reason. Uncommenting it ... 2025-02-07T08:03:46Z 5773b1e1-bf39-44b2-aa2c-93fb415585dc-122794 Hello, The bars:Ribbon.Background property will control the background area of the ribbon where the tab groups are arranged. When I set the Background like you did in the last snippet above, it ... 2025-02-06T22:05:24Z 5773b1e1-bf39-44b2-aa2c-93fb415585dc-122793 Hi Trying to set the background color around the tab area of Bars Ribbon. I've tried a bunch of properties in App.Resources <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static themes:AssetResourceKeys.RibbonT... 2025-02-06T14:33:34Z b95abda1-a07f-4c52-82a3-c346395aa3fb-122744 Hi Alex, ToolTips and ScreenTips will appear light in dark themes. Without that, we found they didn't have enough contrast to stick out properly with the background of the application. That be... 2024-12-11T02:46:30Z 2003f6cc-7351-412a-91c7-7f0651644029-122743 Hi Alex, You can set the attached ImageProvider.CanAdapt property to false on an image source (icon) to prevent it from being adapted. It is described in the documentation here. 2024-12-10T17:33:08Z b95abda1-a07f-4c52-82a3-c346395aa3fb-122742 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 attach a screenshot here? 2024-12-10T07:59:16Z 2003f6cc-7351-412a-91c7-7f0651644029-122741 How can I provide several custom dark theme icons, while keeping all the rest (vast majority) automatically generated from their respective light theme icons? 2024-12-10T07:36:07Z d131b580-3274-4843-bbcb-1eaa06f11019-122712 Thanks! ScreenTips are exactly what I was looking for. Just couldn't find them because I was searching "tooltips" instead. 2024-11-19T05:37:29Z d131b580-3274-4843-bbcb-1eaa06f11019-122711 Hello, For the image width issue, what about using a Viewbox to surround the image? Then you can set a MaxWidth on it to ensure it remains scaled under a maximum size. Also if you are using Sc... 2024-11-18T18:47:39Z d131b580-3274-4843-bbcb-1eaa06f11019-122710 I have two problems with tooltips for Bars elements 1. I would love to have rich content in those tooltips, including images. I realized I can override the content by setting ToolTip property, bu... 2024-11-16T05:36:04Z 3160a898-c9b2-4dc2-8f86-9dd4062dfb2d-122643 Setting the Ribbon.IsMinimized to false did the trick! Thank you, much appreciated. 2024-10-21T20:10:44Z 3160a898-c9b2-4dc2-8f86-9dd4062dfb2d-122637 Hi Blake, One thing you could do instead is set Ribbon.IsMinimized = false. That logic calls into the method that closes the minimized popup. Or alternatively, you could possibly try dispatchi... 2024-10-21T19:38:49Z 3160a898-c9b2-4dc2-8f86-9dd4062dfb2d-122636 I have a feature in most of my apps that allows a person to switch between a (Bars) Ribbon and Menu navigation which toggles the visibility on either of those controls. This works as expected when... 2024-10-21T16:04:32Z 63719507-30bd-43d4-b3ab-5e077e03864b-122621 Thank you ! 2024-10-17T06:21:57Z 63719507-30bd-43d4-b3ab-5e077e03864b-122619 Hi Louis, Thank you for pointing this out. We did some research and located the reason why it wasn't showing the screen tip in that scenario. We've updated the logic for the next maintenance re... 2024-10-14T20:39:12Z 63719507-30bd-43d4-b3ab-5e077e03864b-122616 Dear team, In ribbon we have a lot of BarButton with only one Label and InutGesture and in most cases we would like to have in tooltip "My label (Ctrl + A)" for instance. In the documentation f... 2024-10-14T12:33:22Z 74b0f2b1-1e25-4836-abed-95077d419606-122612 Hello, Thank you for writing. It sounds like you are on v24.1.2? In v24.1.3 we improved the rendering of checked menu items in dark themes: Improved menu item check border contrast in dark th... 2024-10-11T19:09:18Z 74b0f2b1-1e25-4836-abed-95077d419606-122609 Hello, We’ve been using Actipro WinForms for a long time, and as part of revamping our product to WPF, we’ve transitioned to Actipro WPF. Our goal is to replicate the UI and functiona... 2024-10-11T06:55:26Z f3b907b7-b173-4c7f-b364-e2d14a637b0d-122348 Hi!Anyone is good enough for me, I think. I find the old one easier but maybe it is because I am more familiar with it. I suppose though in time people will want the new one as it will become the n... 2024-05-17T06:06:06Z f3b907b7-b173-4c7f-b364-e2d14a637b0d-122346 Hi Daniel, Thank you for the feedback. We do have a TODO item to add ribbon customization capabilities and I will log your request with it. When you refer to Outlook's customization features, ... 2024-05-16T18:32:08Z f3b907b7-b173-4c7f-b364-e2d14a637b0d-122342 Hi! The main reason for me to migrate to bars controls would be if there would be easier support inside bars for customizing the ribbon (similar with customizing QAT). If there are plans to add t... 2024-05-16T06:39:45Z 02dab33b-3a04-4948-ae1b-b0bdb3873fa3-122326 Great. Thanks. I would have created a PR, but pressure is high at the moment. 2024-05-08T21:20:00Z 02dab33b-3a04-4948-ae1b-b0bdb3873fa3-122325 Hello, Thanks for the explanation. We will make the BarGalleryItemTemplateSelector.PrefersMenuItemAppearance method protected virtual for the next build. 2024-05-08T20:27:12Z 02dab33b-3a04-4948-ae1b-b0bdb3873fa3-122324 Sorry. I didn't see email notification. I have a custom DataTemplate selector class deriving from BarGalleryItemTemplateSelector, and want to extend similar gallery vs menuitem behavior for my o... 2024-05-08T10:54:57Z 5906f421-e1b7-4396-808d-e9ba7997ec99-122323 Hi Eric, The AutomationId is passed from the RibbonTabItem you define over to the RibbonTabHeader that is actually in the UIA peer tree. The RibbonTabItem itself shouldn't be appearing in the UI... 2024-05-07T19:47:50Z 5906f421-e1b7-4396-808d-e9ba7997ec99-122322 Currently when i set an AutomationID on my RibbonTabItem, the same ID is used for both the RibbonTab content and the RibbonTabHeader.So i was wondering if there is a way to specify the Header to ha... 2024-05-07T14:42:22Z 02dab33b-3a04-4948-ae1b-b0bdb3873fa3-122314 Hello, The intention is for you to set BarMenuGallery.UseMenuItemAppearance to true when your gallery should use menu item appearance. Or specific gallery item view models can set IBarGalleryIte... 2024-05-03T16:37:21Z 02dab33b-3a04-4948-ae1b-b0bdb3873fa3-122313 I suggest making the method BarGalleryItemTemplateSelector.PrefersMenuItemAppearance public or protected so it can be reused from custom Gallery item template selectors 2024-05-03T10:29:50Z 75de3c77-77f2-4233-821c-858b7cf8f67a-122297 Hi, I attempted to apply a converter to all the displayed values for a particular purpose. However, following your advice, I utilized the .Text property and it functioned perfectly. Thank you, ... 2024-04-25T16:55:04Z 75de3c77-77f2-4233-821c-858b7cf8f67a-122290 Hi Matt, This is actually by design. BarComboBox isn't the same as a normal WPF ComboBox in its design, even though they share a similar name. The items for a BarComboBox are presented in an im... 2024-04-24T15:53:58Z 75de3c77-77f2-4233-821c-858b7cf8f67a-122289 Hi, I have encountered an issue with BarComboBox control where the ItemTemplate only seem to affect the ItemsSource and not the SelectedItem. This behavior is inconsistent with the default ComboB... 2024-04-23T19:44:26Z 4c79932b-54bb-425a-ac98-e18c598909ca-122265 I was able to subclass the BarToggleButton and override the CommandParameter property to provide the callback to set IsChecked and it seems to work perfectly fine and I’m happy with the resul... 2024-04-09T17:14:42Z 4c79932b-54bb-425a-ac98-e18c598909ca-122258 Hi Matthew, You are correct, Bars doesn't implement anything like the CheckableCommand functionality that was in the older Ribbon product. The CheckableCommand functionality was indeed handy, ho... 2024-04-08T20:00:01Z 4c79932b-54bb-425a-ac98-e18c598909ca-122257 First, a quick sainty check to see if I have missed something and there is indeed an analog for CheckableCommands from the Ribbon Library in the Bars Library. Second, I would just like to voice t... 2024-04-08T02:32:38Z 65f2420b-9f79-43a9-9564-2c6ac88a8dca-122245 Hi Matthew, Yes, that is a confirmed bug that was discovered after the last official release. We have a fix in place in the v24.1.2 prerelease on nuget.org for people affected by the bug in v24.... 2024-03-30T13:09:25Z 65f2420b-9f79-43a9-9564-2c6ac88a8dca-122244 <bars:RibbonApplicationButton><bars:BarMenuItem Command="ApplicationCommands.New" /><bars:BarSplitMenuItem Command="ApplicationCommands.New" /></bars:RibbonApplicationButton&gt... 2024-03-30T04:28:28Z 9778344e-feee-4d47-b3aa-b0cda918f151-121644 Hi Steve, Our galleries have some advanced, complex features and need to be driven off of view models as their ItemsSource. At a bare minimum, you could: Add a reference to our Bars MVVM lib... 2023-06-20T20:33:16Z 9778344e-feee-4d47-b3aa-b0cda918f151-121643 Thanks for the reply. I guess I need to spend more time with the Sample Browser because I don't know what to put in a XAML file to make it use the C# code you supplied. I've been a programmer for a... 2023-06-20T18:10:13Z 9778344e-feee-4d47-b3aa-b0cda918f151-121637 Hi Steve, The BarComboBox control ignores the ItemStringFormat property. Even the native WPF controls ignore that property when an ItemTemplate/ItemTemplateSelector is defined like with BarCombo... 2023-06-19T19:56:23Z 9778344e-feee-4d47-b3aa-b0cda918f151-121634 I have a BarComboBox that contains a list of DateTime values. I want to format the dates as "Jun 14, 2023". This works for the dates in the drop-down list, but the currently selected date shows up ... 2023-06-16T18:08:03Z 02c99c53-b22b-47bc-8459-65d1ba791ca8-121628 Hi Steve, We deployed a new version just now that resolves this issue. Thanks! 2023-06-14T20:30:51Z 02c99c53-b22b-47bc-8459-65d1ba791ca8-121622 Hi Steve, Thanks for reporting this. We actually just ran into it several hours ago and are planning to roll out a new maintenance release to resolve it and one other thing hopefully tomorrow. ... 2023-06-13T21:38:03Z 02c99c53-b22b-47bc-8459-65d1ba791ca8-121621 I'm posting this in the Bars forum because that's the GettingStarted I'm following, but this is applicable to anything in the SampleBrowser project that uses the ImageLoader class. I think there's ... 2023-06-13T21:32:21Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121518 We are still collecting changes and don't have a release date set yet. But if you don't see something come out in the next week or two, write us and we can push a preview build for you. 2023-05-04T13:15:02Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121517 This is great stuff - thank you so much. Do you have a rough idea as to when the next maintenance build will hi NuGet for me to test? Many thanks. 2023-05-03T21:37:01Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121515 Hello, Thanks, we can reproduce it now. It looks like we were incorrectly adjusting the display of the external headers (label) based on the RibbonControlGroup.VariantSize property instead of... 2023-05-03T20:28:48Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121514 This is a Classic Mode problem. Apologies - I think I over simplified my xaml when I pasted it - as I removed three buttons to focus on the problem of the combobox - but in playing with this, act... 2023-05-03T09:46:03Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121509 Hi Daniel, We tested your sample XAML and we see a label in Classic mode. Control labels are currently not supported in Simplified mode, though. Can you confirm if the label is visible for you ... 2023-05-02T21:47:13Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121508 Thanks for coming back so rapidly. Still struggling on 2b. My XAML looks a bit like this: <bars:RibbonTabItem Label="Insert" KeyTipText="I" Visibility="{Binding IsReader, Converter={StaticRe... 2023-05-02T14:05:01Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121498 Hi Daniel, We're really glad to hear it was a relatively painless and beneficial switch to the new Bars Ribbon. Let's dive into the questions/comments. 1) You can include any custom control in... 2023-04-28T21:19:28Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121495 Re: "Large" menu items in the Application Menu - have since found the UseLarge property which resolved that. Further issues: - In the RibbonApplicationButton.MenuFooter - the code sample in the... 2023-04-28T15:21:29Z bd938959-1a44-47d6-8c48-d57e1da87ca3-121494 This is for release 23.1.0.0 I've migrated our application from the previous ribbon implementation to the new Bars implementation to get a look and feel that is similar to Office. I had the appli... 2023-04-28T14:57:29Z e124519c-326d-4ebb-b377-442ab55e6acb-121345 This forum is for the Actipro Bars product for WPF. Please post any suggestions or support requests here. 2023-02-24T17:26:39Z