windowsforms-devexpress-dot-xtrabars-dot-barmanager-dot-underscore-properties.md
The component that manages traditional bars and popup menus.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ActiveEditItemLink | Gets the link whose editor is currently active. |
| ActiveEditor | Gets the currently active editor. |
| ActiveMdiChild | Gets the currently active multiple document interface (MDI) child window. |
| AllowCustomization | Gets or sets whether the Customization Window can be activated by the end-user. |
| AllowDisposeItems | Gets or sets whether bar items are disposed when removed from the BarManager.Items collection. |
| AllowFocusBarWithoutMainMenu | Gets or sets whether you can activate bars when their bar manager does not contain a main menu. |
| AllowFocusPopupForm static | For internal use. |
| AllowGlyphSkinning | Gets or sets whether glyphs for all BarItems within the BarManager should be painted using the text foreground color. |
| AllowHtmlText | Gets or sets the default ability to use HTML tags to format bar item text (BarItem.Caption and BarItem.Description) within the current BarManager. |
| AllowItemAnimatedHighlighting | Gets or sets whether bar items are highlighted with an animation effect. |
| AllowLinkLighting | Obsolete. Gets or sets a value that specifies whether images are highlighted when links are hot-tracked. |
| AllowMdiChildButtons | Gets or sets whether to show the MDI buttons for the maximized MDI child document. |
| AllowMergeInvisibleLinks | Gets or sets whether invisible links can be merged. |
| AllowMoveBarOnToolbar | Gets or sets a value indicating whether bar movement within the toolbar area is allowed. |
| AllowQuickCustomization | Gets or sets whether quick bar customization is enabled. |
| AllowShowToolbarsPopup | Gets or sets a value indicating whether bars belonging to the Bar Manager allow the customization menu to be displayed. |
| AutoSaveInRegistry | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the bars’ layout is saved to and loaded from the system registry automatically. |
| BarBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or sets the default background color for all bars that belong to the BarManager. |
| BarItemHorzIndent | Obsolete. Gets the horizontal indent between the contents and borders of bar links. |
| BarItemVertIndent | Obsolete. Gets or sets the vertical indent between the content and borders of bar links. |
| Bars | Gets the bars collection of the BarManager component. |
| CacheItemLinkSize static | Gets or sets whether or not this BarManager should cache the sizes of its item links. |
| CanRaiseEvents protected | Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component. |
| CanShowNonRecentItems | This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
| Categories | Gets a collection of categories used to logically organize bar items. |
| CloseButtonAffectAllTabs | This member is obsolete. It gets or sets a value specifying whether the close button of a dock window hides other windows docked onto it. |
| CloseEditorOnModalFormShow static | This is an internal property that should not be used. |
| ClosePopupOnModalFormShow static | This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. |
| CloseSubMenusOnMouseLeave | |
| Container | Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| Controller | Gets or sets the bar and dock controller that will provide default appearance and customization options for the bars belonging to the current BarManager. |
| CustomizeSelectedLink | Gets the currently customized link. |
| DesignMode protected | Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component. |
| DockControls | Gets the collection of controls that provide docking for bars. |
| DockingEnabled | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager component allows bar docking. |
| DockManager | Gets or sets the DockManager which coordinates any docking operations performed on dock panels. |
| DockWindows | Obsolete. This member is obsolete. It gets the collection of dock windows within the BarManager component. |
| DockWindowTabFont | This member is obsolete. It gets or sets the font used to display tab captions when dock windows are docked to the same place. |
| EditorsRepository | Obsolete. To customize the collection of editors available for bars, use the inherited ComponentEditorContainer.RepositoryItems or ComponentEditorContainer.ExternalRepository property. |
| Events protected | Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component. |
| ExternalRepository | Gets or sets the external editors repository. Inherited from ComponentEditorContainer. |
| Form | Gets or sets the Form or UserControl that bars are on. |
| HideBarsWhenMerging |
Gets or sets whether bars that belong to the current child Bar Manager are hidden from the child form during a merge operation. This option is in effect if you subscribed to the parent BarManager’s BarManager.Merge and BarManager.UnMerge events.
| | HighlightedLink | Gets the currently highlighted link. | | HighlightMode static | Gets or sets the highlight mode for hovered drop-down BarButtonItems. Default to highlight the entire BarButtonItem; Separate to highlight the caption and the drop-down arrow individually. | | HtmlImages | Gets or sets a collection of images that can be inserted into item captions using the image tag. | | Images | Gets or sets the source of images that can be displayed within item links. | | IsCustomizing | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager is being customized. | | IsDesignMode | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager is in design mode. | | IsDocking | Gets or sets a value indicating whether a bar is being dragged. | | IsDragging | Gets or sets a value indicating whether an item link is being dragged. | | IsLinkSizing | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager‘s link is being resized. | | IsLoading | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager is being loaded. | | IsStoring | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager is being saved to the system registry. | | ItemLinkIdCollection | This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. | | Items | Provides access to the BarManager’s collection of items. | | ItemsFont | Obsolete. Gets or sets the default font used to paint link captions. | | KeyboardHighlightedLink | Gets the link that is currently selected in a bar using the keyboard. | | LargeIcons | This property is obsolete. Use the BarManagerProperties.LargeIcons property of the DefaultBarAndDockingController or BarAndDockingController object instead. | | LargeImages | Gets or sets the source of large images that can be displayed within item links. | | LayoutVersion | Gets or sets the version of the layout of bars. | | MainMenu | Gets or sets the bar that is used as the form’s main menu. | | MainMenuBarBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or sets the default background color for main menus. | | MaxItemId | This member supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. | | MdiMenuMergeStyle | Gets or sets if and when a merge mechanism is invoked in an MDI application. | | MenuAnimationType | This property is obsolete. Use the BarManagerProperties.MenuAnimationType option of the DefaultBarAndDockingController or BarAndDockingController object instead. | | MergedOwner | For internal use. | | MostRecentItemsPercent | Gets or sets the value (as a percentage) that determines which of the menu items that haven’t recently been used should be hidden | | OpenSubMenuOnHover static | Gets or sets whether sub-menus are automatically opened when hovered over with the mouse pointer. | | OptionsLayout | Contains options that control how the bars’ layout is stored to/restored from a stream, xml file or system registry. | | OptionsStubGlyphs | Provides access to options that modify a stub glyphs’ appearance. | | PaintStyleName | Obsolete. Gets or sets the name of the painting style applied to bars. | | PopupMenuAlignment | Gets or sets how popup menus associated with this BarManager should be aligned. | | PopupShowMode | Gets or sets whether nested popup sub-menus are displayed in cascaded or inplace mode. | | PressedLink | Gets the currently pressed link. | | PrimaryShortcutProcessor | Gets or sets whether a BarEditItem or an editor within it should process the pressed shortcut. | | ProcessShortcutsWhenInvisible | Gets or sets whether shortcuts for items are in effect if the Bar Manager belongs to a hidden parent control (Form or UserControl). | | ReFocusEditorOnPopupClose static | Gets or sets whether or not the last focused editor should be focused again after a user has clicked a popup menu item and this menu was closed. | | RegistryPath | Gets or sets the registry path to which the bar layout is saved. | | RepositoryItems | Provides access to the component’s internal repository. Inherited from ComponentEditorContainer. | | RightToLeft | Gets or sets a value indicating whether the BarManager‘s elements are aligned to support locales using right-to-left fonts. | | SharedImageCollectionImageSizeMode | Gets or sets the value that specifies how the display size of images is determined, when the images are obtained from a SharedImageCollection. | | ShowCloseButton | Gets or sets whether the close button is displayed in the main menu. | | ShowFullMenus | Gets or sets a value indicating whether to display both recent and non-recent links within a menu. | | ShowFullMenusAfterDelay | Gets or sets a value indicating whether non-recent item links are displayed after a certain period of time. | | ShowScreenTipsInMenus | Gets or sets whether bar item link tooltips should be displayed within context menus. | | ShowScreenTipsInToolbars | Gets or sets whether hints are enabled for bar item links displayed within toolbars. | | ShowShortcutInScreenTips | Gets or sets a value indicating whether a shortcut key should be displayed along with a hint for links belonging to the BarManager component. | | SingleTapToShowKeyboard | Gets or sets whether users should tap editors once or twice to display the on-screen keyboard (when the application runs on touch-screen devices). | | Site | Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Inherited from Component. | | StatusBar | Gets or sets the status bar for the current form. | | StatusBarBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or sets the background color of the status bar owned by this BarManager. | | SubMenuBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or sets the default background color for all submenus within the BarManager component. | | SubMenuBackgroundImage | Obsolete. Gets or sets the default background image for all submenus within the BarManager component. | | SubMenuGlyphBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or set the background color for item descriptive images. | | SubmenuHasShadow | Obsolete. Gets or sets a value indicating whether a submenu casts a shadow. | | SubMenuNonRecentGlyphBackColor | Obsolete. Gets or set the background color of non-recent item descriptive images. | | SubMenuOpenCloseInterval | Returns the delay that occurs before a submenu displayed within another submenu is opened or closed, in milliseconds. | | SuppressModifierKey | Gets or sets whether to suppress the specified keyboard key for all editors. | | ToolTipAnchor | Gets or sets the point relative to which tooltips are displayed for BarItems within a BarManager. This property is not supported for the RibbonControl. | | ToolTipController | Gets or sets the component that controls the behavior and appearance of hints displayed for the container component’s visual elements. Inherited from ComponentEditorContainer. | | TransparentEditors | This property is provided for backward compatibility. Use the BarManager.TransparentEditorsMode property instead. | | TransparentEditorsMode | Gets or sets whether specific in-place editors, when focused, are painted using a transparent background color. | | UpdateMdiClientOnChildActivate static | This member supports the internal infrastructure, and is not intended to be used directly from your code. | | UseAltKeyForMenu | Gets or sets whether the main menu is activated when the ALT key is pressed. | | UseF10KeyForMenu | Gets or sets whether the main menu is activated when the F10 key is pressed. | | UseSynchronizationContextForMdiCheck static | This property supports internal infrastructure and is not intended to be used in code. |
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