Changing Themes

Hi Bruce,

Not in the current public build however we have that feature already implemented and ready to go for the next build. You can see a preview screenshot here:
http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/Ribbon/Images/ThemesCustom.gif

Basically you are able to set a single color (like Colors.Tan) that is used to tint the entire palette and generate a new theme.

Furthermore, we have added setters to all RibbonColorScheme color properties so that you can tweak individual colors as needed.

Very Cool...

Hey, will we be able to take advanage of your colorizer and possibably apply it to our controls in the hosted application to maintain a consistant look/feel?

I have not tried but your docs seem to imply that If we build our buttons with animations / 3d will they run in the ribbon if we inherit or apply an interface from your ribbon dll etcc.. Correct?

Thanks, keep up the good work!!!.

Hi Bruce,

Well you are able to access any of the hundreds of color settings in the current theme. You also can access any of the brush resources that our theme defines and uses throughout the product, although we need to add a documentation topic for that yet. Maybe we can get that in for the next release as well.

If you have any other related features than those that you'd like to see, please let us know and maybe we can get them in for the next release as well.

If you describe your button animations/3D a bit more, I can reply with an implementation recommendation. But you are correct, any control can be added to the Ribbon that implements the IRibbonControl interface. If you are building one from scratch, inheriting our ControlBase is probably a good idea since it already implements much of the interface or if you are doing a button, then perhaps from Button (in the Ribbon.Controls namespace).

Bruce,

All the features mentioned above are now available in today's maintenance release.