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Items/Sub-Items Configuration Overview (xamRadialMenu)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic explains the menu items and their configuration properties in general.

Required background

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Topic Purpose

This topic explains the features supported by the control from developer perspective.

This topic provides an overview of the visual elements of the control.

This topic explains how to configure the xamRadialMenu .

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This topic contains the following sections:

Menu Items Configuration Summary

Menu Items configuration summary chart

The xamRadialMenu control supports several item types, all of which are derived from the RadialMenuItemBase base class.

The following table explains briefly the main configurable aspects of the menu items and maps them to the properties that configure them.

Configurable aspect Details Properties

Menu item index

Specifies the location of a menu item.

Note
Note

If you do not specify the item’s index the items will be rendered in the order they are defined.

Menu item span

Specifies how many wedges a menu item should span.

Recent item

Holds a reference to the last selected Sub-Item. Thus allowing automatic alignment (rotate) Sub-Items functionality.

Automatic align (rotate) sub-items

Specifies whether an item’s Sub-Items automatically rotate so that the recently selected item matches its position with its parent item.

For example for a button item, the item specified in the RecentItem property will be aligned. For a color item or color well the child color well whose color matches the color of the parent color well / color item will be used.

Related Topics

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

Topic Purpose

This topic explains the xamRadialMenu’s button items.

This topic explains the xamRadialMenu’s numeric items.

This topic explains the xamRadialMenu’s color items.

This topic explains the xamRadialMenu’s list items.