Sandribbon ComboBox Buttons Vanish

I've created a very simple windows form using ribbon 1.6.8 with this code:

var b = new GalleryButton("my test button. it's really long and it doesn't show.");

comboBox1.Items.Add( b );

I just added a ribbon to the form and a single combobox (combobox1) using the designer. If the name is long the button just vanishes. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

My recollection is that if an item cannot be accommodated in the dropdown, it is culled from the display. You can solve this by making the dropdown from your combobox wider.

Was there a reasoning for this? It seems very destructive to simply remove an item from the drop down instead of shortening the button graphical display similar to what you do in the actual ComboBox selected field.

Popups are not able to grow to accommodate their children, which would be the only acceptable resolution to this. Buttons do not support truncation of their text when displayed, though you're quite right we do this when displaying the text (not the button itself) in the centre of the combo.

I also ran into this problem but it was a pretty simply solution...here's how I handled it (might be a better way so if anyone has any thoughts, that would be appreciated) and hopefully this Forum will not mess up the indentation too badly!

Setup:  I have a class that is a collection of my clients called _ClientList and a SandRibbon.ComboBox that will display this list called cmbClient

cmbClient has a DisplaySize of 200, 19 and a DropDownSize of 200, 200

Private Sub LoadClients()

   'Clear our Combo
   cmbClient.Items.Clear()

   Dim mySize As Size = cmbProject.DropDownSize
   Dim MaxWidth As Integer = mySize.Width

   ' Populate CLIENT combo box
   Dim Clients As New List(Of Divelements.SandRibbon.GalleryButton)()
   For iCX As Integer = 0 To _ClientList.Count - 1
      Dim ClientName As String = _ClientList.GetDescription(iCX)
      Dim ButtonWidth As Integer = TextWidth(ClientName, cmbClient.Font)
      If ButtonWidth > MaxWidth Then MaxWidth = ButtonWidth

      Dim ClientButton As New Divelements.SandRibbon.GalleryButton(ClientName)
      ClientButton.MinimumSize = New Size(190, 8)
      ClientButton.Enabled = True
      Clients.Add(ClientButton)

      AddHandler ClientButton.Activate, AddressOf ClientButton_Clicked
   Next
   cmbClient.Items.AddRange(Clients.ToArray())
   cmbClient.Enabled = True

   ' Set my dropdown width
   mySize.Width = MaxWidth
   cmbClient.DropDownSize = mySize

End Sub

Private Function TextWidth(ByVal myText As String, ByVal myFont As Font) As Integer
  Dim myWidth As Integer = 0
  Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics
  Dim mySizeF As SizeF = g.MeasureString(myText, myFont)
  myWidth = CInt(mySizeF.Width)

  g.Dispose()
  g = Nothing
  mySizeF = Nothing

  Return myWidth
End Function

Hope this helps,

-LK