Wishlist for future

[Chris]

Hi. I like the Krypton Controls very much and use its in a numbers of Applications. The components are a really easy way for a perfect design and more functionality. But here are some things, what I am missing:

- The original Office 2007 File Menu, what comes if you click on the round button. At the moment its only a contextMenu.

- A Calendar Control like in Outlook 2007.

- A KryptonMessageBox. Ok, its not difficult to create an own MessageBox, but it would be nice, if it's in the Toolkit.

I hope other users complete this list.

Greetings,
Chris

[Phil Wright]

Thanks for the feedback. A message box that is Krypton themed is in the TODO list for a future release but not the upcoming one. Also the Office 2007 application button menu is also on the TODO list. The calendar control is not currently on the list though.

[Darkas]

Phil, you could write your TODO List down in this Thread, so we could see what you want to do. And it would be nice if you write it in the order you want do do it, so we can say, what's more interesting for us in the moment.
But here the Controls I'm waiting for:

- Galleries in the Ribbon

- Not only the File Menu, all different DropDown menus, like the symbol or the Font DropDown in combination with the ComboBox. But the File Menu is even more important for me.

- And it would be nice, if you could add a header style, which displays these colors, which you can see in the Options menu of Office.

- That's no control, but you should put the Focus lines away in the Navigator too, that can you see in the Options menu of Office too.

- I forgot something: to put some special Pages in the Navigator, like in Access, the headerGroup, or in the Office menu a seperator.

The most important controls of these is the File Menu, so i hope this comes soon.

[Phil Wright]

Once I get back from holiday I will look at the TODO list and write a post about the contents. That way people could vote on the most important features for them.

[Chris]

yeah i think a calendar is complex control and takes time.

- ListView
- TreeView
would be nice.

[Mike M]

Another item which would be nice to have is animated expand-collapse for the KryptonHeaderGroup control.

This would be something similar to what you see for the ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit controls. Basically, instead of immediately showing/hiding the content panel, the panel would appear to slide up/down from the header (though very quickly, in less than a second, or maybe it should be configurable).

Sometimes the sudden disappearance/appearance of content is a bit jarring in this age of animated OS's

[DaveThompson]

I know I've mentioned it thousands of times before, but I'd really like to see configurable non client theming in versions of XP which have themes switched off.

We had to buy another toolkit to get this functionality, which cost us quite a bit of cash - I'd much rather have stayed with Component Factory but you've got no idea how retarded people can be when they want the same look and feel across platforms...

I know it's possible to do this, I've reflected the second commercial kit and whilst it's damn full of hacks, it works.

Mind you, when you consider that Krypton is only built by one person, it's a damn impressive effort.

Dave

[johnfermor]

My app would be complete if there was an Explorer Bar in the toolkit.




Actually, I think it functional enough to be marketed sepearately similar to the Ribbon and Navigator - I would certainly invest in it as I need it desperately and am not gifted enough to do it myself ..

John

[Phil Wright]

I like the idea of such a control but it is not top of my list at the moment. You could actually build this yourself.

1 - Take a KryptonPanel and give it a Padding of 10 pixels.
2 - Add as a child of the panel a child a KryptonHeaderGroup
3 - Set the KHG to be docked at the top and auto size
4 - Add to the KHG a ButtonSpec with an arrow so it autocollapses
5 - Add a child KryptonPanel and give it a height of 10 pixels
6 - Set the child panel to be docked at the top
7 - Keep performing steps 2-6 until you have a list stack of groups

WHen you run the app you should be able to use the arrows on the group to expand and collapse them. Because they are auto sized and docked to the top it should automatically change the spacing for you. The only downside is that you will not get any animation, just an instance change.

[johnfermor]

Hi Phil

I hadn't thought of trying to do it like this. I'll experiment when I get some spare time!

Another fine example of how flexible the toolkit is.

Keep up the good work.

John

[Zup]

Another Control would be nice to have: KryptonSplitButton

Maybe there is a chance in a future release ...

[ephogy]

Another Control would be nice to have: KryptonSplitButton

Some microsoft blogger, JFO, released some sample code for a SplitButton. You could make it inherit from the KryptonButton instead of the plain old Button and with a little work, (I removed a lot of his code that didn't fit with my application) get it to look pretty sharp.

[Miketrix]

Did you actually make the changes ?

If so, could you share our work with the community in the dedicated Forum (see Code Snippets). That would be great (a little screenshot of the result would also help)...

Just in case ...

Thanks

[Phil Wright]

Fear not, if you check my blog in another week you will see what I am currently working and it will help in this area.

[Miketrix]

Nice