Our ribbon now has the ability to place a group in either a normal or collapsed state.
When collapsed a group turns into a button that when pressed will popup a window with the full contents of the group. In the following picture you can see a test where all the groups in the tab are in the collapsed state. When the Page Setup group is pressed you can see the popup below that shows the full contents of the group.
At the moment we cannot add any group content and so it looks a little bare! Still, the important point is that it correctly displays and acts as a hot tracking popup.
To take stock of where we are, I have the following list of features to add for the first release…
1) Quick Access Toolbar
2) Allow definition of content for groups
3) Implement intelligent shrinking of groups
4) Design time functionality
Still quite a long list but we are making good progress with some fundamental features in the bag. With context titles, minimize mode and custom chrome integration already under our belt we must be half way there.
