ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes property

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12/11/2020

Represents a container of scaling specifications for the preferred SizeDefinition template, based on Ribbon size.

Usage

<ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes>
  child elements
</ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes>

Attributes

There are no attributes.

Child elements

Element	Description
Scale	May occur one or more times

Parent elements

Element
ScalingPolicy

Remarks

Optional.

May occur at most once for each ScalingPolicy.

If ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes is defined, then a Scale entry for each Group element in a Tab element must be present.

ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes are the preferred SizeDefinition layouts for a Group of controls.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how the appearance of controls in a Group can be customized through the adaptive layout functionality of Ribbon SizeDefinition templates.

The ScalingPolicy manifest in this example specifies a ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes SizeDefinition preference for each of four groups of controls on a Home tab. In addition, Scale elements are specified to influence the collapsing behavior, in descending size order, of each group.

<Tab CommandName="Home">
  <Tab.ScalingPolicy>
    <ScalingPolicy>
      <ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes>
        <Scale Group="GroupClipboard" Size="Medium"/>
        <Scale Group="GroupView" Size="Large"/>
        <Scale Group="GroupFont" Size="Large"/>
        <Scale Group="GroupParagraph" Size="Large"/>
      </ScalingPolicy.IdealSizes>
      <Scale Group="GroupClipboard" Size="Small"/>
      <Scale Group="GroupClipboard" Size="Popup"/>
      <Scale Group="GroupFont" Size="Medium"/>
      <Scale Group="GroupParagraph" Size="Medium"/>
      <!-- 
        GroupView group is associated with the OneButton SizeDefinition.
        Since this template is constrained to one size (Large) there
        is no need to declare further scaling preferences.
      -->
    </ScalingPolicy>
  </Tab.ScalingPolicy>

  <Group CommandName="GroupClipboard" SizeDefinition="FourButtons">
    <Button CommandName="Paste"/>
    <Button CommandName="Cut"/>
    <Button CommandName="Copy"/>
    <Button CommandName="SelectAll"/>
  </Group>

  <Group CommandName="GroupFont"  ApplicationModes="1">
    <FontControl CommandName="Font" FontType="FontWithColor" />
  </Group>

  <Group CommandName="GroupParagraph"  ApplicationModes="1" SizeDefinition="ButtonGroups">
    <ControlGroup>
      <ControlGroup>
        <ToggleButton CommandName="Numbered" />
        <ToggleButton CommandName="Bulleted" />
      </ControlGroup>
    </ControlGroup>
    <ControlGroup>
      <ControlGroup>
        <ToggleButton CommandName="LeftJustify" />
        <ToggleButton CommandName="CenterJustify" />
        <ToggleButton CommandName="RightJustify" />
      </ControlGroup>
      <ControlGroup/>
      <ControlGroup>
        <Button CommandName="Outdent" />
        <Button CommandName="Indent" />
      </ControlGroup>
    </ControlGroup>
  </Group>

  <Group CommandName="GroupView" SizeDefinition="OneButton" >
    <ToggleButton CommandName="ViewSource"/>
  </Group>

</Tab>

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]