The RibbonMenuButton class is a button control that displays a drop-down menu when clicked. It can be added to a RibbonGroup or to another RibbonMenuButton where it is stored as an item of the drop-down menu. The drop-down menu is opened below the button if the RibbonMenuButton is part of a RibbonGroup. RibbonMenuButtons inside a drop-down menu of another RibbonMenuButton opens their drop-down menu to the right of the button. Furthermore it is the base class of the RibbonSplitButton class. The RibbonMenuButton class is inherited from the RibbonButton class. The following describes only the properties, methods and events defined through the RibbonMenuButton class.

Syntax

public class RibbonMenuButton : RibbonButton
Public Class RibbonMenuButton
  Inherits RibbonButton

Introduced: X14.

Constructors

Constructor Description
RibbonMenuButton Initializes a new instance of the RibbonMenuButton class.

Events

Event Description
DropDownClosed Occurs as the RibbonMenuButton's drop-down menu is closed.
DropDownOpening Occurs as the RibbonMenuButton's drop-down menu is opening.

Properties

Property Description
Description Gets or sets the description text that appears on this button in a RibbonMenuButton's drop down menu when the DisplayMode property of the button is set to IconTextRelation.LargeIconLabeled.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
DisplayMode Sets the RibbonButton's superordinate display settings and gets its corresponding text icon relation rendering to the current group's width.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
DropDownItems Gets the collection of controls in the drop-down menu that is associated with this RibbonMenuButton.
IsAddToQuickAccessToolbarEnabled Gets or sets a value indicating whether the RibbonButton can be added to the quick access toolbar.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
IsScalable Gets or sets value indicating whether the RibbonButton changes its display mode when the related ribbon group is scaled by resizing the application.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
KeyTip Gets or sets the keyboard shortcut of the RibbonButton.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
LargeIcon Gets or sets a 32x32 1/96 inch icon for this RibbonButton.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
ParentCollection Gets the RibbonItemCollection that contains this RibbonButton.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
SmallIcon Gets or sets a 16x16 1/96 inch icon for this RibbonButton.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
Text Overridden.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)
ToolTip Gets an object of type RibbonToolTip that displays text when the mouse pointer hovers over the item.
(Inherited from RibbonButton)