How do I do that?
In outlook, in a new message, on the right end of the form, at the same height as the names of the Ribbon Tabs, there is a little blue icon with a question mark - which opens help.
I have not found any way to set this in Infragistics. I can set all other elements, it seems, but not this help entry.
All screenshots in the help I found also miss it. Can it be that Infragistics does not support this? If that is the case - what is the "official" way now to pland a help button? The main menu is gone - the best I can now think of is the quick access toolbar, as naturally I dont want to waste a Ribbon Group with a lonely help button - on EVERY RibbonTab.
You would add a tool to the RibbonTabItemToolbar - exposed from the TabItemToolbar property of the Ribbon. This was added in NA 2007 Vol 1.
Can you give me a code example?
I have 2008.1 installed here, and I simply am not able to find that thing on the Ribbon property of the Toolbars Manager.
Assuming you have a tool with a key of 'ButtonTool1' in your toolbars manager's Tools collection, you should be able to add the tool to the tab item toolbar like this:
this.ultraToolbarsManager1.Ribbon.TabItemToolbar.Tools.AddTool("ButtonTool1");
Olivier,
The TabItemToolbar is still there in 9.1; you can access it via ultraToolbarsManager1.Ribbon.TabItemToolbar.
~Kim~
Hi guys,
I want to do the same thing. However, in version 9.1.20091.2049 I can't seem to find TabItemToolbar anywhere (even I search the API).
What am I missing?
Thanks
Olivier
If you set the HelpButton property to True and the MinimizeBox and MaximizeBox properties of the Form are False, the help button should appear next to the close button in the caption of the ribbon. If it does not, it is a bug and should be submitted: http://ko.infragistics.com/gethelp. If instead you mean that a help button doesn't appear in the tab item toolbar when you set HelpButton to True, this is intentional. The toolbars manager cannot assume that a help button should be placed in that toolbar, especially when it will appear in the caption as well.
And how could I add the Help button of the winform ?
If the Help button property of the form is set to true, no Help button is displayed on the UltraTollbar-form.
My idea is to set the button like a traditional form and to have it converted dynamicallywhen the form is using ultra toolbar manager !
You can add a tool to the TabItemToolbar and then pass Shell.Ribbon.TabItemToolbar.Tools[...] into the AddInvoker method.