When WPF RibbonMenu Window height reduced, Ribbon disapears

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Hi,
I opened a new WPF RibbonMenu project in VS2010 and resized the MainWindow down to just the height of the RibbonMenu...

Now when I run the app the RibbonMenu has disappeared... resizing the height up a bit restores the RibbonMenu.

Is this bug? OR is there a workaround for it?

My Thought is to use the RibbonMenu like a floating ToolBar and then have other windows to open from there.

Posted 20-Apr-11 8:27am

Squire Dude

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-20T09:12:00

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That is "as designed". You should set a minimum height on your form so that it doesn't happen.

Posted 20-Apr-11 9:12am

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Squire Dude 20-Apr-11 15:39pm

Thanks John,

So if I understand this is correctly... it is normal for the Ribbon to become hidden if you set a height/minHeight to the actual height of the Ribbon Menu. Even thought this was exactly what I wanted by design...

Not sure I understand the logic behind this thinking but then this Microsoft we are talking about!

So I will have to abandon the floating ToolBar method and re-think my use of the Ribbon Menu. And it was such a good idea too!