Menus Package

The Essential Tools Menus package comes with the XP Menus framework, which provides users with the latest Office XP look and feel, as well as functionality for menus, toolbars, and context menus.

Syncfusion XPMenus provides 100% compatibility with Microsoft Vista. It provides improved look and feel to your applications if you are working with Vista.

SuperToolTip component now extend its support for the BarItems in XPMenus. It can be added easily for any BarItems and it will provide improved look and feel for your applications.

The menu structure can be customized, with different colors offered by the menus framework.

Flat-look ComboBoxes can be nested in the menus and toolbars created using the MainFrameBarManager.

Dynamically numbered list of menu items, such as MDIChild Windows list or the Most-Recently-Used-Files list, can be displayed in the menus created using the MainFrameBarManager.

Any Syncfusion or .NET Control, can be popped up from a menu or toolbar item, using the PopupControlContainer.

Any .Net or Syncfusion control can be nested in a Toolbar created using the MainFrameBarManager.

Users can easily customize toolbars using the 'Add or Remove buttons' popup from the toolbar chevrons similar to the ones in Microsoft Office. They can also start customization in toolbars by simply pressing the Alt key and starting a drag and drop.

The MainFrameBarManager, available in the Essential Suite, supports personalized partial Menus with most recently used items. All the menu items in the menu can be viewed by clicking the expand button.

The Office XP look and feel can be applied to the menus, created using the MainFrameBarManager, available for the menus package.

Certain regions of the menus and toolbars can be viewed with a themed look and feel, if desired.

The Office 2003 look and feel can be visualized for the tools and menus created using the MainFrameBarManager.

ControlBars, a concept popularized by Office 2003, is now supported by the XP Menus framework. ControlBars are full-featured dockable/floatable control hosts but with layout behavior similar to the XP toolbars and menus.

VS 2005 Look and Feel can be applied for XPMenus to quickly provide a modern and professional appearance, with a look similar to the menus in Microsoft Visual Studio.

The all new Office2007 and Office 2007 Outlook look and feel have been applied for XP Menus, with all the three Office 2007 Color schemes - Blue, Silver and Black.

Users can drag and drop menus across submenus and toolbars, create new submenus and control visibility. Drag and Drop items from the customization dialog or simply start a drag with the Alt Key down.

Insert new items into sub-menus; move items from toolbars to submenus or vice-versa. Users can also insert custom submenus and easily fill them with items.

Users can show / hide toolbars through the Customization Dialog (shown above) or through the Quick Customize context menu.

Users can float the Toolbars or Dock them to any border. Their state will be persisted automatically in the user's isolated storage and used for subsequent application invocations. The persistence store can also be customized.

XPMenus automatically merge Toolbars and Menus from the different child forms during runtime. The menu items are also merged based on their MergeOrder and MergeType properties.

Users may create completely transparent child forms with all their menu click events encapsulated within the Forms (without having to do unnecessary casting and delegation of menu events to the child forms from the main form).

XPMenus framework provides true context menus support. When associated with a control, the framework listens to its context menu messages rather than right click messages. This lets us support automatic shortcut processing, respond to context menu keys in the keyboard, etc.

The XPMenus Framework comes with an XPToolbar Control, that can be dropped from the toolbox to any region within the form.

This XPToolBar can host a variety of BarItems such as ParentBarItem, DropDownBarItem, ComboBoxBarItem, StaticBarItem and even TextBoxBarItem.

The padding property for individual Bar item in the menus package can be used even with the Themes option disabled. Earlier this padding property could be applied only when the themes option was enabled for the mainFrameBarManager.

Essential tools provides options for including images in the bar items using the ImageList Control.

Image for highlighted Bar Item

The HighlightedImageList and HighlightedLargeImageList properties can be used to set the images that need to be set when the bar items are highlighted.

Image for disabled Bar Item

The DisabledImageList and DisabledLargeImageList properties can be used to set the images that need to be set when the bar items are Disabled.

Two different events are generated for the baritems of Menus when a single and double click is issued respectively. This will enable the user to include individual functionalities for the two click events of the Baritem.