In my current project i needed to use a dynamic menu control a completely declarative approach hardcoding the structure in xaml wasnt a good fit for my application cause i need to dynamically add, remove, enable and disable menu items. Menuitem is a headereditemscontrol, which means its header and collection of objects can be of any type such as string, image, or panel. Locate the install silverlight area in the lowerright part of the window. Jan 29, 2012 silverlight 5 provides multiwindow support for outofbrowser oob applications with elevated trust. Its really far from intuitive nor understandable, so if you have set out to create e. The png format is widely supported and works best with presentations and web design. David starr principal solutions architect microsoft. Today ill show how to build wpf menu with icons in xaml. Wpfxaml add a xaml geometric image to a menu item as an.
Migrating from the windows phone toolkit contextmenu to. Im working on a angular 9 web with many modules and submodules. The contextmenu contains a set of menuitem which can contain text and icons, if desired. The last is for the arrow, if the menuitem contains a submenu. Download and install the latest version microsoft silverlight plug in for your browser. Silverlight for mac is not being recognized or you are. The thing is i need to implement a menu with the modules and childs using accordion strcuture. Find answers to wpfxaml add a xaml geometric image to a menu item as an icon from the expert community at experts exchange need support for your remote team. Microsoft silverlight is a crossbrowser, crossplatform plugin for delivering the next generation of. Mar 03, 2009 here is a question that a friend of mine asked me recently. Used various systembrushess brush for styling the menu and menuitem.
With this control you can modify headers, its items the main this you can do with that is you can use any control inside the headerditemscontrol and also use controls all property. The following image shows a mvvm version of our silverlight menu. Comments for setting up icons for a silverlight oob application. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. In this article we will be creating certain tabs in a tab control with context menu with an option to remove certain tab item. The icon property is of object type, so it does not necessarily to be an image. I do not want it and there is simply no reason for it to be installed. Logically most of the time the buttons in software or windows are disabled for a good reason but there are times when you really need them enabled. Headereditemscontrol is used for putting header on the list like as datagrid. Sisulizer version 4 is a paid update recommended for all sisulizer customers still using sisulizer 3 or sisulizer 1. Menu icon problem in wpf hello frnds i m creating a menu in run time. What sets this toolbar apart is that it is composed of only a toolbar and a box. How do you bind menu items to a contextmenu in silverlight, including the icon. Indeed, as a beginner with wpf, it thought that setting the property isenabled false, on the menuitem, will disable it.
Wpf menu how to remove and modify the icon area for. In general, you should have windows that show both a window icon and a system menu. Since silverlight doesnt support a menu control yet i. The menuitem class is a simple class with title, description and controltype properties. Depending on the layout styles you are using for your silverlight application, the default styles of silverlight menu can break the visual identity of your web application and produce an undesirable result. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. For the icon to be displayed as expected, you have to either provide an element of type image for it or also set the icontemplate property of the item setting the icon of a static item.
How do you bind menu items to a contextmenu in silverlight. Reluctantly, i must use microsoft office for mac, and while i can live with this, i do not want to have microsoft silverlight on my mac. To enable the context menu for disabled controls you can set the showondisabled attached property of the contextmenuservice to true. You can modify the default controltemplate to give the control a unique appearance. Menu and submenu items have a parentmenu property to trace whos his parent cause when you click on a submenu you have to close the popup which is holded by its parent control. Oct 12, 2016 the title is microsoft silverlight update available and it carries on with some text encouraging me to install it. With the help of togglebutton and popup controls in silverlight, we can create a custom menu control as follows. I downloaded the silverlight toolkit and took the systembrushes class from the systemcolor themes source code. Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web and mobile applications.
For example, the following sample uses rectangle object with different background color for the menu item icon. Forms shell spec make it simple and straightforward for new developers to get a complete app experience that is properly structured, uses the right elements, with very little effort and a clear path to being good by default. After the download is completed, installation should start automatically. The example below shows a contextmenu using both a text header and an image as the icon content. The icon is searched for in the folder specified by the xbmlangpath environment variable. Iconfinder mixed momentum glossy icons silverlight icon add to collection. For more information, see create a template for a control menu parts. Xaml icons for wpf and silverlight with custom icon design. I have used office for mac for many years and previously, during installation and updates, im. T561087 context menu with icon wpf devexpress support. View david starrs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. It supports single level of nesting, therefore there is no support for sub items. Silverlight home page prepare for silverlight 5 end of support after october 2021.
I, like you, was using a view model and didnt what to. The method accepts a tabitem needed to be removed as parameter. Icon menuitem however, i want to use vector graphics, rather than bitmaps, for menu. The menuitem style first sets the foreground color to the parent menus foreground color line 2. Apr 24, 2011 the following image shows a mvvm version of our silverlight menu. I have delete menuitem with trash icon in contextactions. By default each menuitem has reserved space for an icon. You no longer have to worry about having to search for multiple folders for icon files at different sizes.
This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under the code project open license cpol. Configuring for a black style and white style menu. Right click on window and select view code, here we create a method to remove a tabitem. And just food for thought, id highly recommend you start putting this in styles. Since q2 2010 radmenu has a property for defining the width of the column, which is reserved for the icons. This covers all of the new business centric features, features for rich media experiences, expression blend and visual studio tooling enhancements, and new out of browser features. It appears that if the itemssource of the contextmenu class contains menuitem objects, then the icon lands nicely where it belongs. The radmenu allows you to display an icon for each of the menu items. Here are 6 tools that you can use to forcefully enable a disabled or grayed out objects. A menuitem can optionally have an icon, though i believe the trend these days is moving away from. Walk through the new features in silverlight 4, find learning materials and additional resources.
Visually located migrating from the windows phone toolkit. Learn how to get started using the agbars control and create a simple silverlight application that contains a menu bar and a toolbar. The submenu of the menuitem is made up of the objects within the itemcollection of a menuitem. Itemscontrol and headereditemscontrol is same but the difference is that you.
We can create a custom menu control in silverlight using the following steps. This can be done by setting the icon property of the radmenuitem. Using silverlight 4 features to create a zunelike context menu. If you rightclick on a disabled control, no context menu is shown by default. Also if i add submenuitem the icon on menuitem dissapears once i open submenus and the last submenu gets the icon. Title and description are displayed in the listbox menu. Unfortunately the contextmenu provided in the december 2011 release of the silverlight toolkit is not multiwindow aware which means that context menus opened from secondary windows only appear in the main window there are bugs open on ms connect and a work item on the toolkits. T561087 context menu with icon wpf devexpress support center. For the menuitems i wanted to add icons to, i need to define the menuitem. Net based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover davids. Responses to setting up icons for a silverlight oob application cynthia rdz. Otherwise, click runtime for mac powerpc next to silverlight 1. Jul 01, 2009 artistsvalley has now launched extensively beautiful, crisp, clear and stunning vector xaml icons for your wpf and silverlight applications.
Sep 26, 2007 the next control in the basic toolkit is the menu. Wpf menuitem programmatically i seriously dont know what they had been smoking in redmond when they invented the uri scheme for wpf. In this example youll see how to control isenabled state of menuitem from your application. Find answers to wpfxaml add a xaml geometric image to a menu item as an icon from the expert community at experts exchange. As it is not a vector format, its not suitable for enlarging after download or for print usage. Add high quality xaml vector icons to your wpf and silverlight application and you will have the. A wpf window without a window icon the thing you click to. Silverlight 5 toolkits contextmenu in multiple windows. Wpf menu how to remove and modify the icon area for radmenu. Using silverlight 4 features to create a zunelike context.
Having a window icon helps the user determine where they click to get the system menu the window icon and where they double click to maximizerestore their window the area not taken up by the window icon and the minimize, restore, maximize. The icon can be any size, but will be resized to the standard 16x16 pixels when drawn. Silverlight toolbar and menu control getting started youtube. Ill cover the following topics in the code samples below. Universal subscriptionour best value includes over 600 ui controls, our awardwinning reporting platform, devexpress dashboard, the expressapp framework, coderush for visual studio and more. Net localization windows forms, wpf and silverlight. This answers ops question, but if you are like me you just want to know how to add an iconimage to a menuitem then see the answer from daniele below. Hello, four years later i have a problem with this, i see the images, i select them, but it does not display when running my app. The seventyseventh part of the windows presentation foundation fundamentals tutorial continues to describe the wpf menu controls, which present the user with a number of commands from which they may select.
The box is simply placed in the toolbar multiple times to create the elements on the toolbar. Silverlight 5 provides multiwindow support for outofbrowser oob applications with elevated trust. C1toolbar quick start the following quick start guide is intended to get you up and running with toolbar for wpf and silverlight. Often there are icons, check marks, accelerators, and arrows to indicate submenus. The first is for the icon or the checkbox depending on the type of menuitem. Iconsland offers xaml icons for wpf and silverlight applications. The nice silverish background brush of the menu is systembrushes. Many of these controls were only available through third party control libraries. Unfortunately the contextmenu provided in the december 2011 release of the silverlight toolkit is not multiwindow aware which means that context menus opened from secondary windows only appear in the main window. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Im getting menuitem icon appearing only on last menuitem. Silverlight for mac is not being recognized or you are continually prompted to install.
Universal subscriptionour best value includes over 600 ui controls, our awardwinning reporting platform, devexpress dashboard, the expressapp framework, coderush for. Then comes the template, which is where it gets interesting. So in a silverlight 2 application where i have several unrelated user controls that i want to use in a presentation, i create a list of menuitem classes and pass them to the menuview control. This topic describes the styles and templates for the menu control. Many menu controls have more than just text in the menuitem elements. Sep 22, 2008 so in a silverlight 2 application where i have several unrelated user controls that i want to use in a presentation, i create a list of menuitem classes and pass them to the menuview control. There is a very generic application icon within the dialog but nothing else, and certainly nothing that gives me any confidence that this is genuinely from microsoft. One of the most popular and free libraries is the windows phone toolkit.
Jan 30, 20 wpf menuitem programmatically i seriously dont know what they had been smoking in redmond when they invented the uri scheme for wpf. Silverlightcontentpresenter, bitmapimage, menuitem, wpf, and header. Contextaction menuitem icon not showing in ios xamarin. May 15, 2010 using silverlight 4 features to create a zunelike context menu. In this quick start youll start in visual studio and create a new project, add toolbar for wpf and silverlight to your. May 29, 2014 this is part of a series on migrating from the wp toolkit with the release of the new windows phone 8.
Jun 28, 2012 today ill show how to build wpf menu with icons in xaml. If i snoop the app only last menuitem has image in icon, while if i debug all menuitems appear to have image in icon. For more information, see the headereditemscontrol class. Thomas lebrun wpf how to gray the icon of a menuitem. Here is a question that a friend of mine asked me recently. Migrating from the windows phone toolkit contextmenu to the new runtime menuflyout. For more information, see create a template for a control. If you are running an intel processor, click mac runtime next to silverlight 3. The filename of an icon to be used instead of the usual option box icon. The solution may be as simple as opening safari then opening preferences under the security icon open plugin settings button, check to see if the silverlight icon is checked, if it is not check the box and then try opening the application or website that uses silverlight. Menus are much like a series of nested buttons in the way you deal with them. Artistsvalley has now launched extensively beautiful, crisp, clear and stunning vector xaml icons for your wpf and silverlight applications. For the icon to be displayed as expected, you have to either provide an element of type image for it or also set the icontemplate property of the item. Net framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the web works.
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