Core features

Full compliance with MS Ribbon fluent UI guidelines

The control supports all of the mandatory requirements laid out by Microsoft's Office 2007 fluent Ribbon UI design guidelines

Out-of-the-box Office 2007 style "Application Window" control

The control contains an Office 2007 styled modern application Window class that your Window classes can derive from, to render Office 2007 Windows.

This is instantly achieved simply by deriving your Window classes from our BinaryRibbon Window class.

Support for Application Menu and button

The control provides Office 2007 style Application menu and Application button controls.

It also provides all of the visual effects that Office 2007 ribbon applications render, viz., the gradient brush effect on the background of the Application button when the mouse enters its bounds, the glass style menu item background rendering, and many more.

Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) with customization

The control contains an Office 2007 styled Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) that you can add the most common/frequently used application commands into.

As part of the QAT, the control provides the QAT overflow window/menu bar where you can let your users add/re-configure more commands for their quick access.

Contextual Tabs

The control provides support for adding specific tab items to a collection called "Contextual Tab set", as is seen in Office 2007 applications.

Using BinaryRibbon, it is very easy to prepare any number of Contextual Tab sets, and also being able to specify different colors for each of the Contextual Tab sets.

Full support for Right-to-Left FlowDirection

The control comes with full Right-To-Left FlowDirection support.

Here is a screen shot of the control running its blue theme (with its customised MS Office like ScrollBar control as well), and the UI's Layout running Right-To-Left FlowDirection.

Ribbon supports rendering an image for the tab item header

The control supports rendering a small image for the ribbon bar's tab item header.

The image can be up to a size of 16x16.

Automatic Ribbon resizing

The control supports automatic intelligent resizing of UI elements inside the Ribbonbar, as and when the application window is resized to a smaller size or expanded to a larger size.

When resizing the window to a smaller size, the control automatically resizes the controls in such a way that at any point in time a visual clue of what each element is about, is always rendered.

Typically, this means that larger buttons with image and text, are resized to a smaller size containing a smaller version of the image, skipping the text in the resizing process.

With regards to group controls, i.e. controls that hosts other controls in them as a group, the controls resizing algorithm resizes the group controls into smaller chunks and pushes the contained controls into an overflow area, which users can work with by clicking on the overflow button arrow. Image Gallery

The control provides out-of-the-box gallery controls in order to display galleries of images of varying sizes.

The galleries support up and down scrolling and a full view display as a popup window just like as seen in Office 2007 applications.

Office 2007 styled controls for ComboBox, Textbox, Button, Seperator are included

As parts of the Ribbon control, you get out-of-the-box Office 2007 styled common controls which includes Combobox, Textbox, Separator, Supertooltip, Gallery, Dropdown button, Rounded button, Menu, Menuitem, Items overflow host control and Office 2007 styled application Window control.