Ribbon Tabs and their definition

Question

Hello,

I have a a Ribbon control with mutliple tabs, that are pretty big, which makes the xaml very unreadable....

My goal was to put each tab into a sepertate file as resource, but i just can't get it to work.

Theres no "Tabs" property etc.

So, is there any way to define a RibbonTab outside of the ribbon itself and use it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,

 

I havent really used this control before but if you were using a normal tab control you could have say 5 tab items and each tab item contained a seperate user control  where you could put the xaml and logic for that particular. 

 

Would that work in your scenario? Something like this

 

<Tabcontrol>

<TabItem Header="TabItemOne">

<controls:TabcontrolOne />

</TabItem>

 

<TabItem Header="TabItemTwo">

<controls:TabcontrolTwo />

</TabItem>

</TabControl>

 

Answer 2

Use this code to put the RibbonTabs in one array:

  <xxx.Resources>
    <x:Array Type="{x:Type ribbon:RibbonTab}" x:Key="tabs">
      <ribbon:RibbonTab Header="Home"/>
      <ribbon:RibbonTab Header="Edit"/>
    </x:Array>
  </xxx.Resources>

 

And set the StaticResource or DynamicResource on the Ribbon.ItemsSource to this array:

 <ribbon:Ribbon x:Name="Ribbon" ItemsSource="{StaticResource tabs}">
 </ribbon:Ribbon>

 

Sincerely,

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