Bar Members
Represents a Windows-like toolbar.Constructors
Properties
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Appearance | Specifies appearance settings for the bar. |
| BackColor | Obsolete. Gets or sets the background color of the Bar. |
| BackgroundImage | Obsolete. Gets or sets the background image of the Bar. |
| BarAppearance | Provides appearance settings used to paint BarItemLinks within the current Bar in different visual states. |
| BarItemHorzIndent | Gets or sets a value specifying the size of the horizontal indent between a link’s border and its content, in pixels. |
| BarItemVertIndent | Gets or sets a value specifying the size of the vertical indent between the link’s borders and their content, in pixels. |
| BarName | Gets or sets the name of the bar. |
| CanDockStyle | Gets or sets a value specifying the manner in which a bar can be docked. |
| CanMove | Gets a value indicating whether the Bar can be moved. |
| CanRaiseEvents protected | Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component. |
| Container | Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| DesignMode protected | Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component. |
| DockCol | Gets or sets the bar column index position when it is docked. |
| DockRow | Gets or sets the bar row index when it is docked. |
| DockStyle | Gets or sets the Bar dock style. |
| Events protected | Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component. |
| FloatLocation | Get or sets the Bar location in screen coordinates if the bar is floating. |
| FloatSize | Get or sets the size of the Bar in pixels if the bar is floating. |
| HideWhenMerging |
Gets or sets whether the current child bar is hidden from the child form during a merge operation. This option is in effect if you subscribed to the parent BarManager’s BarManager.Merge and BarManager.UnMerge events. |
| IsFloating | Gets a value indicating whether the Bar is floating. |
| IsLoading | Indicates that the Bar Manager is being loaded. |
| IsMainMenu | Gets a value indicating whether the Bar is the application’s main menu. |
| IsMerged | Gets whether another bar has been merged into the current bar. |
| IsStatusBar | Gets a value indicating whether the bar is a status bar. |
| ItemLinks | Gets the collection of item links belonging to the current bar. |
| LinksPersistInfo | This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
| Manager | Gets or sets a value representing the Bar Manager that owns this bar. |
| MergeSource | Gets the collection of item links that have been merged into the current bar. |
| Offset | Gets or sets the offset in pixels from the left or top border of the bar container based on the dock style. |
| Options | Obsolete. Gets or sets the options used to create a Bar. |
| OptionsBar | Provides access to customization options for the current bar. |
| Site | Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| Size | Gets the bar’s size. |
| StandaloneBarDockControl | Gets or sets the StandaloneBarDockControl control to which the bar belongs, if any. |
| StandaloneBarDockControlName | Gets or sets the name of the StandaloneBarDockControl control to which the bar belongs, if any. |
| Tag | Gets or sets an object that contains custom data for the current Bar object. |
| Text | Gets or sets the bar’s display text. |
| Visible | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Bar is displayed. |
| VisibleLinks | Gets the collection of visible bar item links displayed within the bar. |
Methods
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AddItem(BarItem) | Adds a link to the Bar control. |
| AddItems(BarItem[]) | Creates links to bar items passed as an array. |
| ApplyDockRowCol() | Applies changes made by the Bar.DockCol and Bar.DockRow properties. |
| AskReset() | Returns a Bar to its designed state. |
| BeginUpdate() | Locks the Bar, preventing visual updates of the object and its elements until the EndUpdate or CancelUpdate method is called. |
| CancelUpdate() | Unlocks the Bar object after it has been locked by the BeginUpdate method, without causing an immediate visual update. |
| ClearLinks() | Removes all links from the Bar control. |
| CreateObjRef(Type) | Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| Dispose() | Releases all resources used by the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| EndUpdate() | Unlocks the Bar object after a call to the BeginUpdate method and causes an immediate visual update. |
| Equals(Object, Object) static | Determines whether the specified object instances are considered equal. Inherited from Object. |
| Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. Inherited from Object. |
| ForceUpdateBar() | Forces the current Bar to be refreshed. |
| ForceUpdateLayout() | Forces this Bar to redraw itself. |
| GetActualLinks() | Retrieves the list of links currently displayed within this Bar. |
| GetBarControl() | This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
| GetHashCode() | Serves as the default hash function. Inherited from Object. |
| GetLifetimeService() | Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| GetLinkHorzIndent() | Returns the actual horizontal indent between the content and the borders of bar links, measured in pixels. |
| GetLinkVertIndent() | Returns the actual vertical indent between the content and the borders of bar links, measured in pixels. |
| GetService(Type) protected | Returns an object that represents a service provided by the Component or by its Container. Inherited from Component. |
| GetType() | Gets the Type of the current instance. Inherited from Object. |
| InitializeLifetimeService() | Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| InsertItem(BarItemLink, BarItem) | Inserts a link in the Bar at the specified index. |
| Invalidate() | Updates a bar control. |
| MemberwiseClone() protected | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Inherited from Object. |
| MemberwiseClone(Boolean) protected | Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| Merge(Bar) | Adds the visible links from the specified bar onto the current bar. |
| ReferenceEquals(Object, Object) static | Determines whether the specified Object instances are the same instance. Inherited from Object. |
| RemoveLink(BarItemLink) | Removes the first occurrence of a specific link from the Bar. |
| Reset() | Returns a Bar to its designed state. |
| SetCurrentStateAsDefault() | This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
| ToString() | Returns a String that represents the current Bar. |
| UnMerge() | Restores the links layout of the current bar after another bar has been merged with it. |
Events
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Disposed | Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose() method. Inherited from Component. |
| DockChanged | Occurs after the bar has been docked to another position by an end-user. |
| LinkAdded | Fires immediately after a link has been added to the bar. |
| LinkDeleted | Fires immediately after a link has been removed from the bar. |
| VisibleChanged | Fires immediately after the visibility of the bar has been changed. |
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