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Using Microsoft Office 2007 UI Capabilities

Microsoft® Office 2007 adds new UI capabilities for organizing and navigating applications. These innovations represent a new wave for usability in application development.

The Office2007UICompatibility property (set to True by default) helps you to ensure that the applications you develop using the WinToolbarsManager™ component will conform to the Office 2007 UI look and feel.

Note
Note

WinToolbarsManager is a highly-customizable component; therefore, some property settings which are not affected by the Office2007UICompatibility property (e.g., alignment, size, visibility) may cause your application UI not to conform to the standard Office 2007 look and feel.

When set to True, the Office2007UICompatibility property will help you to maintain the application’s Office 2007 UI compatibility by resolving particular properties to their default values, despite what you set them to at design time or run time. Therefore, the following list will help you understand what changes cannot be made while the Office2007UICompatibility property is set to True.

WinToolbarsManager

PopupGalleryTool

  • The gallery drop down’s height will never exceed 2/3 the screen height.

  • In the gallery preview in the ribbon, the gallery’s ActivationInitialActionDelay will be resolved to 250ms and the ActivationActionDelay will be resolved to 0ms.

  • The MinDropDownColumns and MaxDropDownColumns of gallery tools that are displaying a preview within a RibbonGroup will resolve to be no less than the number of preview columns displayed at the time when the drop-down menu is displayed. (Note: It is possible for the value to be less if the preview spans multiple monitors.)

Application Menu

  • The width of the ApplicationMenu drop-down menu will remain fixed.

  • The open delay for hovering over pop-up tools in the application menu will be resolved to 100 ms.

  • The open delay for hovering over segmented drop-down menus in the application menu will be resolved to 200 ms.

  • The Cancel property of BeforeToolDropdown event will be ignored for any pop-up tools (e.g., PopupMenuTool , PopupControlContainerTool , etc.) directly within the application menu.

  • The Cancel property of the BeforeApplicationMenuDropdown event will be ignored. This event cannot be cancelled.

Quick Access Toolbar

  • The ImageSize for the tools displayed within the QuickAccessToolbar will be resolved to 16x16.

  • The Location property of the QuickAccessToolbar will not be serialized at design time.

Ribbon

Contextual Tabs

  • The Image property of a ContextualTabGroup caption will be ignored. ContextualTabGroups will never show an image.

  • The TextHAlign/TextVAlign of a ContextualTabGroup caption will be resolved to Left/Middle, respectively.