RibbonMenuButton Issue

Question

I am working on a WPF project and I started developing the Ribbon area. I just put a RibbonMenuButton and added three RibbonTextBox inside of it. I want these TextBoxes to retrieve some data from the user. Everything is fine so far.

<rb:RibbonMenuButton LargeImageSource="/image.png" Label="Settings"   >
      <rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 01:" Text="{Binding Field01 }" />
     <rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 02:" Text="{Binding Field02 }" />
     <rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 03:" Text="{Binding Field03 }" />
  </rb:RibbonMenuButton> 

My problem is that the RibbonTextBox becomes a menu item, i.e. I can click it and select it.

But I want to avoid this behavior, I just want to have an "unselectable" RibbonTextBox.

Is there a way to achieve that?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hiya

I think the simplest way is to change the RibbinMenuItem ControlTemplate:

<Window
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:rb="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/ribbon" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:Microsoft_Windows_Themes="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Classic" mc:Ignorable="d" x:Class="WpfApplication70.MainWindow"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
	<Window.Resources>
		<Style TargetType="{x:Type rb:RibbonMenuItem}">
			<Setter Property="Template">
				<Setter.Value>
					<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type rb:RibbonMenuItem}">
						<ContentPresenter ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding HeaderTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Header}" Grid.Column="1" ContentStringFormat="{TemplateBinding HeaderStringFormat}" ContentSource="Header" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" RecognizesAccessKey="True" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
					</ControlTemplate>
				</Setter.Value>
			</Setter>
		</Style>
	</Window.Resources>
    <Grid>
    	<rb:Ribbon HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="111,86,0,88.867" Width="289.14">
    		<rb:RibbonMenuButton Label="Settings"  >
    			<rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 01:" Text="{Binding Field01}" />
    			<rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 02:" Text="{Binding Field02}" />
    			<rb:RibbonTextBox Label="Field 03:" Text="{Binding Field03}" />
    		</rb:RibbonMenuButton> 
      	</rb:Ribbon>
    </Grid>
</Window>

 

Put this in <rb:RibbonMenuButton.Resources> if you want it to stay local to that button.

 

Regards,
Pete

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Answer 2

Works perfectly, thank you very much!