Status bar button style?

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Posted 16 years ago by Brad Daszynski
Version: 3.0.0410
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In MS Word, for example, they have buttons on the status bar that are not the normal button style. Looks like just text, but when you hover over it you get a mouse over effect, much like the buttons in the ribbon. Does the Actipro ribbon include specific buttons styles for use with the bottom status bar? Thanks.

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Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi Brad,

Actually check out our samples in the v3.0 Sample Browser. Both the StatusBar Styles QuickStart and the main demo show these sorts of buttons in action. They are ribbon:Button controls that look like labels when they have a Context of StatusBarItem. So it's super easy to add them.

Here's a sample of the first button in the sample:

<ribbon:Button Context="StatusBarItem" Padding="6,0,6,0" Label="Page: 1 of 1" 
   ScreenTipHeader="Page number in document. Click to open the Go To dialog box." />


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Posted 16 years ago by Brad Daszynski
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Cool. What about putting other controls within a status bar button? StackPanel, Image, etc.
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Since this is ribbon:Button, an image can be set to ImageSourceSmall property. You could retemplate the ribbon:Button to allow for other content like StackPanel if you wish.

But if you want to do that, the other option is to take a regular WPF Button, use our built-in style that we made for native WPF buttons, and put that in the StatusBar. This way you can set its Content property to whatever you need.


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Posted 16 years ago by Brad Daszynski
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So would it be

<Button Style="{DynamicResource {x:Static ribbon:RibbonStyles.ButtonKey}}" >
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
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Having some problems...
Posted 16 years ago by Brad Daszynski
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Nevermind... got it
The latest build of this product (v24.1.2) was released 2 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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