PopupButton popup translucency - Ribbon for WPF Forum

Posted 13 years ago by Stephen Tapper

Hey there,
I'm looking to make my pop up menu semi transparent when the pop up is open. This is a simple example which shows my problem. When you are viewing the content of the popup, the text boxes below it are not visible.


<StackPanel>
        <ribbon:PopupButton Label="Button">
            <ribbon:Menu Background="Transparent">
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
                <TextBlock>Menu item</TextBlock>
            </ribbon:Menu>
            
        </ribbon:PopupButton>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Hi there</TextBlock>
    </StackPanel>

I've also tried setting the background to transparent for each TextBlock inside the popup button menu, but that didn't change anything. I'm guessing that I need to change the background of the actual Popup control, but I'm not sure how to get to it. Let me know if I need to include anything else.
Thanks for the help!

Comments (1)

Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Stephen,

Sorry but you'd need to retemplate the control to achieve that as the drop-shadow and popup background are defined in its template.

If you are a WPF Studio customer you can download our default styles/templates right from your account.

Actipro Software Support

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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