Need a little help with Options Window and IsGlassEnabled

Hi Adam,

The problem is that you can't set a binding in XAML unless your options window exposes a property that contains its OwnerWindow. The Window class has an Owner property that you may be able to use to bind the checkbox to, such as below:

<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding ElementName=optionsWindow, Path=Owner.(ribbon:RibbonWindow.IsGlassEnabled)}" />

I didn't personally try this, but it seems like it should work. Also, I was assuming that you were using a window for your options, not a popup button or the like, if that’s not what you meant let me know.

I am using a Window, I assume the ElementName is the name of the options window.

Unfortunately thats not workign though.

<CheckBox Width="74"
                  Height="17"
                  Margin="200,120,0,0"
                  HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                  VerticalAlignment="Top"
                  Content="Toggle Aero Glass"
                  FlowDirection="RightToLeft"
                  IsChecked="{Binding ElementName=optionsWindow, Path=Owner.(ribbon:RibbonWindow.IsGlassEnabled)}" />

I do have this on the form as well, it's just after the public partial class declaration

        #region Dependency Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Identifies the <see cref="Ribbon"/> dependency property.  This field is read-only.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>The identifier for the <see cref="Ribbon"/> dependency property.</value>
        public static readonly DependencyProperty RibbonProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("Ribbon", typeof(ActiproSoftware.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.Ribbon), typeof(OptionsWindow), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(null));        

        #endregion

Hi Adam,

Sorry to hear that, it might not be able to be done in an XAML binding then unless you expose some RIbbonWindow based property on your options window so that you can bind to it.