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c#wpfribbon-control
Luiscencio
Luiscencio

Reputation: 3965

Why is my RibbonWindow not themed correctly?

Working with the ribboncontrolslibrary, when I run my application the title bar looks like W98 application,. How can I make it look pretty?

Edit: It seems that has something to do with the theme used on windows.

any help would be appreciated.

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<r:RibbonWindow x:Class="Produccion_Dampers.main"
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 xmlns:r="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon;assembly=RibbonControlsLibrary"
 Title="Window1"
 Height="600"
 Width="800">
    <DockPanel>
        <r:Ribbon DockPanel.Dock="Top" Title="my App looks like s***t">
        </r:Ribbon>
    </DockPanel>
</r:RibbonWindow>

Upvotes: 9

Views: 1505

Answers (2)

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 57919

(from my previous comment)

You can draw a custom window frame as described in this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb688195(VS.85).aspx, which includes information about drawing the window caption with the system theme's font (which might provide clues about accessing other theme information).

Upvotes: 2

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 57919

If you are running a custom theme on your machine, WPF windows default to the "Classic" theme.

As I understand, your options are then limited because the title bar is non-client to your application -- it is rendered by the OS (why then it can't adopt the custom theme, I don't know).

(If the last one works, it means my understanding about rendering the title bar is incorrect.)

Upvotes: 2

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