Ribbon system color theme

http://www.divelements.com/net/controls/sandribbonwpf/xbap/SandRibbonXBAPDemo.xbap

SuperMario wrote: Looks nice

Actually really nice. And from my experience many users don't like the Blue and Black Office theme, they like the Silver one the most because it comes closest to their settings. So a theme that uses the system settings would be perfect!

ABuenger, where did you get that screenshot? :o

Thanks, Andre, its all good ideas :-) btw now you can also use standard caption instead themes - just don't call EnableFrameTheme. We will consider return Office2003 theme.

Add also RibbonBar.ShowCaptionAlways = False

The file menu area need to be tweaked a little, it should be darker and there should be a seperator between the file menu and QAT. Also there should be a margin (2px ?) on the left and right side of the file button. And the arrow is not centered which looks really weird.

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Here demo executable:

RibbonSample.zip

Looks great, but doesn't seem to be in 13.0.0. Will this be included in the next update?

ABuenger wrote: oleg wrote: Hi,   Seems we finally added Ribbon system theme. Hope you will like it :)   Looks great Oleg, although this looks more like a Office 2003 theme. Could you upload the new Ribbon sample? As mentioned before I would like to use the Ribbon with the OS-drawn frame. The frame in the screenshot looks custom drawn, is it? Is the new look implemented as a color set rather than bitmaps? Then it should be easy to add the Scenic (Win7) Ribbon theme.

Yeah would be good to have choice of OS frame also :)

oleg wrote: Hi, If you will run our Ribbon in Vista you will see OS frame.   Previous Windows don't support it. :(

You can draw on the non-client area in Pre-Vista versions as well???

Also there is no need to draw on the caption bar:

ABuenger wrote: The file menu area need to be tweaked a little, it should be darker and there should be a seperator between the file menu and QAT. Also there should be a margin (2px ?) on the left and right side of the file button. And the arrow is not centered which looks really weird.

znakeeye wrote: Will this be included in 13.1? Sure looking forward to it... :)

Yes Terry, it is true.  We have had some policy changes that will be announced pretty soon.

I won't go into detail now, the official announcement will explain everything.  Thanks for understanding.

Hi, moderation has been changed back, Groupie and Senior Members can post freely again. 

terrym wrote: Excellent, also please re-consider adding Windows 7 style ribbon themes to the next release of XTP as this is a request of a few users and a great thing to add early on.

Seems like Windows 7 and Office 2010 ribbon theme is going to be the same, just with a different color set.
I really would like to see a fast, non-bitmap based, ribbon theme.

http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=13182

terrym wrote: Cool, so do you also use Ribbons in your applications?  What is your overall thought of them.  We ourselves think they are the best thing since sliced bread lol

From this in 2006:



To this in 2007:



My problem with menus and toolbars was that just the Engine Control Unit has about 100 different settings, so 1 menu item for each setting + all menu items of the application itself, so a total of about 160 items back then. Toolbar was pretty useless with the 16x16 icons.

I've made many changes to the Ribbon items since then because originally I tried to convert the menus 1:1 to Ribbon tabs/groups which doesn't work well. After I got used to the Ribbon I've regrouped everything again.

terrym wrote: Very nice :)   How did you get the File to appear like Windows 7? however I think i'll wait for proper themes to get exact

That was the old Office Beta 1 theme in 10.1

terrym wrote: Ah, do you not use the latest themes from 13.0.0???

Sure. The screenshot was from 2007

terrym wrote: Ah cool, is this a finished project, commercially available?

Here is a screenshot with the current theme. Japanese translation is not yet finished
Project is not yet "finished" and probably will not be for some time to come. Still many missing features on the PC and ECU (launch control, telemetry, ...) side.

terrym wrote: Cool, its great to see other projects being written with XTP.

It was the obvious choice. The ECU and PC app shares some of the source and you don't want your ECU to run Windows CE with a .NET application , so C was the only option and C++ on the PC.

When I've started the app I've used BCG, but later versions degraded the performance more and more. The app is heavily multithreaded to get the best performance for background logging etc., but with BCG whenever you moved the mouse over an UI element, opened a menu etc. the sampling rate went down. When they released their Ribbon implementation I've compared BCG to the XTP again and XTP won big times *hands down*.

So far I haven't regretted the decision. So I don't care if competitor X has feature Y a month earlier when they lack quality and performance.

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Will the themes be updated in next release? I really want to ship my software with "System theme", but I feel it's not ready yet.

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