The old (4.0) Ribbon - sub-item's X Y position

The old (4.0) Ribbon - sub-item's X Y position

Posted by: mike on 25 February 2020, 10:12 pm EST

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  mike

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  Posted 25 February 2020, 10:12 pm EST

  Is there any way to find out what the X Y position of a Ribbon item is inside the ribbon (for example, to show the tooltip)?

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  Posted 25 February 2020, 10:15 pm EST

  Oh - and it is possible to do that for a C1RibbonTextBox because it has a TextBox inside it so the TextBox’s position can be looked at. But not for a C1RibbonButton…

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  Posted 26 February 2020, 2:36 am EST

  Hi Mike,

  You can take a look at the attached sample to learn how to show the tooltip in RibbonItems.

  Regards,
  
  Prabhat Sharma.
  
  RibbonToolTipDemo.zip

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  Posted 26 February 2020, 7:38 pm EST

  First of all, your example uses ToolTip - I’d like to use C1SuperToolTip. And second, your example just lines it up on the mouse - I could do that with C1SuperToolTip easily, but I would much prefer showing the tooltip either to the right of the button or below it, for which I need to know where the button is…

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  Posted 27 February 2020, 2:08 am EST

  Hello Mike,

  I have updated the sample with C1SuperToolTip.
  
  Although there is no way to get the coordinates of the RibbonItem, you can get the mouse position when hoving on the ribbon item and change the position of the SuperToolTip accordingly.

  Regards,
  
  Prabhat Sharma.
  
  RibbonToolTipDemo_Mod.zip

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  Posted 27 February 2020, 12:40 pm EST

  Thanks, but you’re saying there is absolutely no way to get the coordinates of the ribbon item?

  Even your tooltips that you show for ribbon items in the Ribbon are always shown at the bottom of the ribbon - which really doesn’t look good…

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  Posted 28 February 2020, 2:34 am EST

  Hello Mike,

  Sorry for the inconvenience.
  
  Although there is no property or method available in RibbonItem to get its coordinates, you can use the GetItemBounds property of C1Ribbon to get the rectangle of the ribbon item and then use its value to set the position of the SuperToolTip.
  
  https://www.grapecity.com/componentone/docs/win/online-ribbon/C1.Win.Ribbon.4.5.2~C1.Win.Ribbon.C1Ribbon~GetItemBounds.html

  I have modified the last sample accordingly, please have a look.
  
  I hope it helps.

  Regards,
  
  Prabhat Sharma.
  
  RibbonToolTipDemo_Mod2.zip

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  Posted 28 February 2020, 2:52 am EST

  Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Perfect.

  Now - wouldn’t it be great if the native C1Ribbon tooltip for the ribbon items used that as the position instead of showing under the ribbon?

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  Posted 28 February 2020, 3:19 am EST

  Hi,

  Now - wouldn’t it be great if the native C1Ribbon tooltip for the ribbon items used that as the position instead of showing under the ribbon?

  We have escalated this request to the developers and will let you once we get any updates on this from the developers’ end.
  
  [Internal Tracking ID: 422880]

  Regards,
  
  Prabhat Sharma.

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  Posted 11 August 2020, 7:49 am EST

  Hello,

  PopupToolTip event and PlacementMode property added in the New Ribbon. You can download the same from the following link:
  
  http://prerelease.componentone.com/dotnet452/c1winform/2020-t2/C1WinForms-452_4.5.20202.438.zip

  Thanks,
  
  Mohit