I have a MDI application layed out like Visual Studio 2008. I am already using the AppStylist to give the user different look and feel. But I would like to add the ribbon look and feel too. What would need to be done or how would you go about switching between these styles? Can the two styles exist in the same application?
Steve Graddy MCP, MCAD.NetOrgbrat Consulting
Do you want to add just the rounded form aspect of the applications with ribbons, or would you like to have the ribbon as well as toolbars on your application? If you just want to add the rounded form look, add an UltraToolbarsManager to you Form and set its FormDisplayStyle to RoundedSizable or RoundedFixed. If you would like to have the ribbon and toolbars appear together, make the ribbon visible on your UltraToolbarsManager and disable Office 2007 UI compatibility. Or if you just wanted to use a ribbon but keep the look of VS2008, you can show the ribbon but set the Style of the UltraToolbarsManager to VisualStudio2005.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the quick reply.. I currently have a Visual Styles dropdown in the application's Options dialog. The user can choose what visual style they would like. What I would like to do is if they pick one of the Office 2007 styles ( Blue, Silver, Black styled by Infragistic's AppStylist ), I would like to give the full Ribbon affect to the application. But I did not know how much would be involved to switch back and forth between the Ribbon and the normal looks. What do you think?