AccordionControl Class
An advanced hierarchical navigation menu.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraBars.v21.1.dll
NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Design, DevExpress.Win.Navigation
Declaration
Related API Members
The following members return AccordionControl objects:
Remarks
Accordion Control is a side navigation control that can be used as a replacement for the NavBarControl.
Features include:
- Unlimited number of hierarchy levels (AccordionControl.Elements, AccordionControlElement.Elements)
- Items and groups can display images and text in their headers (AccordionControlElementBase.Image, AccordionControlElementBase.ImageIndex, AccordionControlElementBase.Text)
- Items can display custom controls in an expandable area below their headers (AccordionControlElementBase.ContentContainer)
- The Hamburger Menu paint style. (AccordionControl.ViewType, AccordionOptionsHamburgerMenu.DisplayMode)
- Load items’ content dynamically (AccordionControl.HasContentContainer, AccordionControl.GetContentContainer)
- One or multiple elements can be expanded simultaneously (AccordionControl.ExpandElementMode)
- Context buttons in item and group headers (AccordionControl.ItemContextButtons, AccordionControl.GroupContextButtons and AccordionControl.ContextButtonCustomize)
- Custom controls in item headers (AccordionControlElementBase.HeaderControl)
- Item selection feature (AccordionControl.AllowItemSelection) - Allows you to highlight a clicked item.
- Item and group expanding/collapsing animation (AccordionControl.AnimationType)
- The built-in search box (AccordionControl.ShowFilterControl) - Allows you to filter items based on the search text.
- Support for an external search box (SearchControl).
For more information, refer to the Accordion Control article.
Tooltips
You can display regular and super tooltips for items in an AccordionControl. If the control’s ShowToolTips option is enabled, a tooltip is shown when the mouse pointer hovers an item.
Use an item’s Hint property to specify regular tooltip content.
To assign a super tooltip to an item, use the SuperTip property. Enable the AllowHtmlText property to use HTML tags in the super tooltip.
Set the ToolTipController.ToolTipType property to SuperTip to replace regular tooltips with super tooltips. The controller automatically converts regular tooltips to super tooltips. To access this property, you can use the DefaultToolTipController component or a custom controller assigned to the control’s ToolTipController property. See the following topic for more information: Tooltips.
Example
This example demonstrates how to create a sample AccordionControl at runtime.
using DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation;
using DevExpress.XtraEditors;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace AccordionControl_ex {
public partial class Form1 : Form {
public Form1() {
InitializeComponent();
}
AccordionControl acControl;
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
acControl = new AccordionControl();
acControl.Dock = DockStyle.Left;
acControl.Parent = this;
acControl.Width = 200;
InitAccordionControl();
}
private void InitAccordionControl() {
acControl.BeginUpdate();
AccordionControlElement acRootGroupHome = new AccordionControlElement();
AccordionControlElement acItemActivity = new AccordionControlElement();
AccordionControlElement acItemNews = new AccordionControlElement();
AccordionControlElement acRootItemSettings = new AccordionControlElement();
acControl.ElementClick += new ElementClickEventHandler(this.accordionControl1_ElementClick);
//
// Root Group 'Home'
//
acRootGroupHome.Elements.AddRange(new AccordionControlElement[] {
acItemActivity,
acItemNews});
acRootGroupHome.Expanded = true;
acRootGroupHome.ImageOptions.ImageUri.Uri = "Home;Office2013";
acRootGroupHome.Name = "acRootGroupHome";
acRootGroupHome.Text = "Home";
//
// Child Item 'Activity'
//
acItemActivity.Name = "acItemActivity";
acItemActivity.Style = ElementStyle.Item;
acItemActivity.Tag = "idActivity";
acItemActivity.Text = "Activity";
//
// Child Item 'News'
//
acItemNews.Name = "acItemNews";
acItemNews.Style = ElementStyle.Item;
acItemNews.Tag = "idNews";
acItemNews.Text = "News";
//
// Root Item 'Settings' with ContentContainer
//
acRootItemSettings.ImageOptions.ImageUri.Uri = "Customization;Office2013";
acRootItemSettings.Name = "acRootItemSettings";
acRootItemSettings.Style = ElementStyle.Item;
acRootItemSettings.Text = "Settings";
//
// itemSettingsControlContainer
//
AccordionContentContainer itemSettingsControlContainer = new AccordionContentContainer();
HyperlinkLabelControl hyperlinkLabelControl1 = new HyperlinkLabelControl();
ToggleSwitch toggleSwitch1 = new ToggleSwitch();
acControl.Controls.Add(itemSettingsControlContainer);
acRootItemSettings.ContentContainer = itemSettingsControlContainer;
itemSettingsControlContainer.Controls.Add(hyperlinkLabelControl1);
itemSettingsControlContainer.Controls.Add(toggleSwitch1);
itemSettingsControlContainer.Appearance.BackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control;
itemSettingsControlContainer.Appearance.Options.UseBackColor = true;
itemSettingsControlContainer.Height = 60;
//
// hyperlinkLabelControl1
//
hyperlinkLabelControl1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(26, 33);
hyperlinkLabelControl1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(107, 13);
hyperlinkLabelControl1.Text = "www.devexpress.com";
hyperlinkLabelControl1.HyperlinkClick += new DevExpress.Utils.HyperlinkClickEventHandler(this.hyperlinkLabelControl1_HyperlinkClick);
//
// toggleSwitch1
//
toggleSwitch1.EditValue = true;
toggleSwitch1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 3);
toggleSwitch1.Properties.AllowFocused = false;
toggleSwitch1.Properties.AutoWidth = true;
toggleSwitch1.Properties.OffText = "Offline Mode";
toggleSwitch1.Properties.OnText = "Onlne Mode";
toggleSwitch1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(134, 24);
toggleSwitch1.Toggled += new System.EventHandler(this.toggleSwitch1_Toggled);
acControl.Elements.AddRange(new DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation.AccordionControlElement[] {
acRootGroupHome,
acRootItemSettings});
acRootItemSettings.Expanded = true;
acControl.EndUpdate();
}
private void accordionControl1_ElementClick(object sender, DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation.ElementClickEventArgs e) {
if (e.Element.Style == DevExpress.XtraBars.Navigation.ElementStyle.Group) return;
if (e.Element.Tag == null) return;
string itemID = e.Element.Tag.ToString();
if (itemID == "idNews") {
//...
}
listBoxControl1.Items.Add(itemID + " clicked");
}
private void toggleSwitch1_Toggled(object sender, EventArgs e) {
//...
}
private void hyperlinkLabelControl1_HyperlinkClick(object sender, DevExpress.Utils.HyperlinkClickEventArgs e) {
Process.Start(e.Text);
}
}
}
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