Customising context menu in recent documents control - Bars for WPF Forum

The latest build of this product (v25.1.4) was released 3 months ago, which was before this thread was created.

Posted 2 months ago by Jason Trenouth

Version: 25.1.4

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-bars-recentdocumentcontro

New question:

Is there a way of customising the context menu on the control? We had a "Copy" (to clipboard) menu item that we would like to migrate.

By default it looks as if the small size form doesn't have a context menu so I can add one there, but the large size form of the control has "Open" and "Pin" menu items and my efforts to add a "Copy" item haven't worked so far.

Is there a way of doing that?

__Jason

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Answer - Posted 2 months ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

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 currently showing if in an application menu (like in our first example in the Recent Documents QuickStart), which is a bug we will fix for the next version. The second example in that QuickStart, which is in a Backstage, shows the expected menu, even if you set UseLargeSize="False".

Before any context menu is displayed, the Ribbon.MenuOpening event will fire. The expected menu will have an e.Kind == BarMenuKind.RecentDocumentItemContextMenu. Per above, that kind is set properly when in Backstage but not app menus right now and we will fix that for the next version.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 2 months ago by Jason Trenouth

Okay. Thanks. I'd found a workaround that took over the menu construction.

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