Ribbon Status Bar

• May 22, 2020

 

Ribbon Status Bar

A Ribbon Status Bar is typically displayed at the bottom of a window. It is used to display various kinds of status information, providing helpful feedback to end-users. All the items displayed within the Ribbon Status Bar are represented by specific bar item links.

NOTE

In XAML, a RibbonControl and RibbonStatusBarControl must be created within a BarManager object. Bar items to be used within the RibbonControl/RibbonStatusBarControl must be defined in the BarManager's BarManager.Items collection.

The Ribbon Status Bar is represented by the RibbonStatusBarControl class.

Compared to a regular status bar, the RibbonStatusBarControl has the following features:

• It is painted differently, to concur with the RibbonControl's look and feel.
• It contains separate left and right regions. Adding bar items to the RibbonStatusBarControl.LeftItemLinks and RibbonStatusBarControl.RightItemLinks collections anchors them to the left and right edges of the bar, respectively. When reducing the width of the window, the items in the left region are hidden first.
• It provides a size grip (see RibbonStatusBarControl.IsSizeGripVisible) to resize the current window.

To add items to the RibbonStatusBarControl, add bar item links to the RibbonStatusBarControl.LeftItemLinks and/or RibbonStatusBarControl.RightItemLinks collections.

Examples

• How to: Define a RibbonStatusBar