Microsoft Office 2000 introduced useful toolbars and menus features. ActiveBar allows you to render themes that reflect in both Office 2000 and Office XP applications and supports virtually all the Office 2000 toolbar and menu features in the different toolbar styles.
With ActiveBar 3.0, you can create applications with a Microsoft Office 2000 or Office XP look and feel that hide advanced menu tools until they are used. As the user explores the advanced options in your applications, the menus adapt to make the most recently used tools visible.
To activate this feature you need to set the ActiveBar PersonalizedMenus property to ddPMDisplayOnHover or ddPMDisplayOnClick and set the MenuVisiblity property for the advanced tools in your application to ddMVVisibleIfRecentlyUsed. If you need to save the menu usage information between sessions, you can use the SaveMenuUsageData method before shutting down your application to save information to a file or a byte array. Use the LoadMenuUsageData method to load the pre-saved information and restore the previous environment.
When the layout does not fit in the docking area, you can set each Toolbar band to either wrap the tools using the WrapTools property or display a special MoreTools button that creates a new popup band showing the tools that do not fit on the band. In addition, the MoreTools button displays a menu option for "quick customization popup" when the band is set to allow customization.
The quick customization popup allows the user to show or hide tools from the toolbar without invoking the customization dialog. Pressing the ALT key lets the user to click on a Tool and drag it between bands or delete it by dragging it away from a band.
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Designing Bands | Microsoft Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 Look and Feel
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