Popular Post trancexx Posted May 3, 2011 Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2011 (edited) Few years ago Microsoft introduced new UI feature that they named Ribbon.With the release of Windows 7 they added it as standard system feature. Windows Ribbon framework.You could say it's a new technology waiting to be fully embraced. Considering AutoIt is currently in some shitty stage Ribbons are not expected to be supported natively. Which is actually good thing because otherwise some developer could have GUICtrlCreateRibbon idiotic idea.Ribbons are beautiful things. In order to work with them you have to master objects. It's COM based technology. Some people will stop reading now, but really their shame.Anyway, this example is based on work by Mr. Michael Chourdakis. Guy really took deeper dive to ribbon thematic and made few very interesting articles. All is available on internet naturally, just google Michael Chourdakis Ribbon or something like that.So, the main thing to do is create so called Ribbon Framework Object. After that you have to initialize event handlers (two callback objects made with ObjectFromTag function) and load your Ribbon.Ribbon is loaded from resource, either one of your app or some other. I have compiled resource dll for this example so that scripts could be run non-compiled and still use ribbon command bar.Example shown here is not completely dummy, it uses all of the ribbon controls. Only it doesn't do anything smart besides that.ZIP:Ribbon.zipInside the zip there is folder called Ribbon with two files RibbonExample_NEW.au3 and RibRes.dll. Extract that folder somewhere, run RibbonExample_NEW.au3 and enjoy the Ribbon beauty.There are few comments inline for easier comprehension of the overall script code.Thanks Andreik for asking for more. Edited September 12, 2013 by trancexx Mugen, scintilla4evr, Zmy and 4 others 7 ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEZ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Very nice work trancexx! 5* from me! What about RibRes.dll? Where is it from? Br, UEZ Please don't send me any personal message and ask for support! I will not reply! Selection of finest graphical examples at Codepen.io The own fart smells best! ✌Her 'sikim hıyar' diyene bir avuç tuz alıp koşma!¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ૐ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 (edited) I thought the major benefit of ribbons was that they natively supported resizing of controls. Example in my Excel program:Is this functionality supported? If so, will you write a demo using this technique?I'm also having huge repaint issues with the GUI, mostly when resizing. Example: http://gyazo.com/7b3e742d70d5abab2519be627e1f898c.png I haven't done any debugging yet. Can you give me some pointers? Edited May 3, 2011 by Manadar github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taietel Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 (edited) UEZ, download the free version of VRC from here and make a custom one. Trancexx, thanks! 5* Edited May 3, 2011 by taietel Things you should know first...In the beginning there was only ONE! And zero... Progs: Create PDF(TXT2PDF,IMG2PDF) 3D Bar Graph DeskGadget Menu INI Photo Mosaic 3D Text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEZ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 @taietel: ahh, I see now what is behind the DLL. Thanks, UEZ Please don't send me any personal message and ask for support! I will not reply! Selection of finest graphical examples at Codepen.io The own fart smells best! ✌Her 'sikim hıyar' diyene bir avuç tuz alıp koşma!¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ૐ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrex Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 @trancexx .... I am still reading ... This is a great addition to au3 ! To resolve to Gui repaint issue (partially) add this GUIRegisterMsg(0xF, "MY_PAINT"); Register PAINT-Event ... Func WM_ERASEBKGND($hWnd, $msg, $wParam, $lParam) Return 1 EndFunc ;==>MY_PAINT Ps : "I am still a COM fan, don't get me wrong, but there is more in life the COM alone" Contributions :Firewall Log Analyzer for XP - Creating COM objects without a need of DLL's - UPnP support in AU3Crystal Reports Viewer - PDFCreator in AutoIT - Duplicate File FinderSQLite3 Database functionality - USB Monitoring - Reading Excel using SQLRun Au3 as a Windows Service - File Monitor - Embedded Flash PlayerDynamic Functions - Control Panel Applets - Digital Signing Code - Excel Grid In AutoIT - Constants for Special Folders in WindowsRead data from Any Windows Edit Control - SOAP and Web Services in AutoIT - Barcode Printing Using PS - AU3 on LightTD WebserverMS LogParser SQL Engine in AutoIT - ImageMagick Image Processing - Converter @ Dec - Hex - Bin -Email Address Encoder - MSI Editor - SNMP - MIB ProtocolFinancial Functions UDF - Set ACL Permissions - Syntax HighLighter for AU3ADOR.RecordSet approach - Real OCR - HTTP Disk - PDF Reader Personal Worldclock - MS Indexing Engine - Printing ControlsGuiListView - Navigation (break the 4000 Limit barrier) - Registration Free COM DLL Distribution - Update - WinRM SMART Analysis - COM Object Browser - Excel PivotTable Object - VLC Media Player - Windows LogOnOff Gui -Extract Data from Outlook to Word & Excel - Analyze Event ID 4226 - DotNet Compiler Wrapper - Powershell_COM - New Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Hah! That's neat. I love it! Blog - Seriously epic web hosting - Twitter - GitHub - Cachet HQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 GUIRegisterMsg(0xF, "MY_PAINT"); Register PAINT-Event ... Func WM_ERASEBKGND($hWnd, $msg, $wParam, $lParam) Return 1 EndFunc ;==>MY_PAINT Did you mean to do this? GUIRegisterMsg(0x0014, "WM_ERASEBKGND") Func WM_ERASEBKGND($hWnd, $msg, $wParam, $lParam) Return 1 EndFunc Because it solves repaint issues with the ribbon very nicely, just not the rest. http://gyazo.com/b431e13c8f318cce022389d0c097da68.png github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trancexx Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 I thought the major benefit of ribbons was that they natively supported resizing of controls. Example in my Excel program:Is this functionality supported? If so, will you write a demo using this technique?I'm also having huge repaint issues with the GUI, mostly when resizing. Example: http://gyazo.com/7b3e742d70d5abab2519be627e1f898c.png I haven't done any debugging yet. Can you give me some pointers?I'm not sure but probably OnViewChanged method of UIApplication is where that can be adjusted.All the examples I had in c++ have had WS_CLIPCHILDREN style added for the main GUI. If that's added to AutoIt's GUI then overriding of some windows massaging would be in place too I guess.I lol'd on pointers. ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UEZ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 (edited) Did you mean to do this? GUIRegisterMsg(0x0014, "WM_ERASEBKGND") Func WM_ERASEBKGND($hWnd, $msg, $wParam, $lParam) Return 1 EndFunc Because it solves repaint issues with the ribbon very nicely, just not the rest. http://gyazo.com/b431e13c8f318cce022389d0c097da68.png This is better but not perfect (tested on Win7 x64 with Aero): GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NOTIFY, "ReDraw") Func ReDraw($hWnd, $msg, $wParam, $lParam) _WinAPI_RedrawWindow($hGUI, 0, 0, BitOR($RDW_ALLCHILDREN, $RDW_UPDATENOW, $RDW_INVALIDATE, $RDW_INTERNALPAINT)) Return "GUI_RUNDEFMSG" EndFunc Maybe some styles needs to be added which I don't know yet. Br, UEZ Edited May 3, 2011 by UEZ Please don't send me any personal message and ask for support! I will not reply! Selection of finest graphical examples at Codepen.io The own fart smells best! ✌Her 'sikim hıyar' diyene bir avuç tuz alıp koşma!¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ૐ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JScript Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Wow, great! Five stars ***** Questions: It only works if I use AutoItObject? It depends on Net Framework? What minimal version? Will always have this DLL? Thanks for sharing!!! http://forum.autoitbrasil.com/ (AutoIt v3 Brazil!!!) Somewhere Out ThereJames Ingram Download Dropbox - Simplify your life!Your virtual HD wherever you go, anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancexx Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 Wow, great! Five stars *****Questions:It only works if I use AutoItObject?It depends on Net Framework? What minimal version?Will always have this DLL?Thanks for sharing!!!Yes, code works thanks to AutoItObject. The only mayor dependency is operating system.DLL is there to serve as resource holder. It can be any other PE module, or none if ribbon resource is added to your compiled script. ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JScript Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Thanks for your reply... And about "Application button"? http://forum.autoitbrasil.com/ (AutoIt v3 Brazil!!!) Somewhere Out ThereJames Ingram Download Dropbox - Simplify your life!Your virtual HD wherever you go, anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreik Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 How could I create the resource file for a custom application? Should I install Visual Studio for Ribbon Designer? When the words fail... music speaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancexx Posted July 14, 2013 Author Share Posted July 14, 2013 How could I create the resource file for a custom application? Should I install Visual Studio for Ribbon Designer?I used Visual Ribbon Creator by Michael Chourdakis. Digisoul 1 ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreik Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Can you tell me please what you did to work properly. I tried Visual Ribbon Creator by Michael Chourdakis and as he said I installed VS 2010, I am able to generate C++ code but the application fail to compile DLL. When the words fail... music speaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudw2k Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 (edited) Forgive the dumb nature of my post;is the download of the Autoit Object package required. I assumed the AutoItObject.au3 script included in the zip was all I needed but are there other dependencies nedded in the AIO package? I only ask because I don't get what I expected when I run the example (plain GUI with a button and textbox) and I am unable to download the package from my current location do to firewall rules. edit: spelling and grammar Edited July 24, 2013 by spudw2k Spoiler Things I've Made: Always On Top Tool ◊ AU History ◊ Deck of Cards ◊ HideIt ◊ ICU ◊ Icon Freezer ◊ Ipod Ejector ◊ Junos Configuration Explorer ◊ Link Downloader ◊ MD5 Folder Enumerator ◊ PassGen ◊ Ping Tool ◊ Quick NIC ◊ Read OCR ◊ RemoteIT ◊ SchTasksGui ◊ SpyCam ◊ System Scan Report Tool ◊ System UpTime ◊ Transparency Machine ◊ VMWare ESX BuilderMisc Code Snippets: ADODB Example ◊ CheckHover ◊ Detect SafeMode ◊ DynEnumArray ◊ GetNetStatData ◊ HashArray ◊ IsBetweenDates ◊ Local Admins ◊ Make Choice ◊ Recursive File List ◊ Remove Sizebox Style ◊ Retrieve PNPDeviceID ◊ Retreive SysListView32 Contents ◊ Set IE Homepage ◊ Tickle Expired Password ◊ Transpose ArrayProjects: Drive Space Usage GUI ◊ LEDkIT ◊ Plasma_kIt ◊ Scan Engine Builder ◊ SpeeDBurner ◊ SubnetCalcCool Stuff: AutoItObject UDF ◊ Extract Icon From Proc ◊ GuiCtrlFontRotate ◊ Hex Edit Funcs ◊ Run binary ◊ Service_UDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancexx Posted July 24, 2013 Author Share Posted July 24, 2013 Can you tell me please what you did to work properly. I tried Visual Ribbon Creator by Michael Chourdakis and as he said I installed VS 2010, I am able to generate C++ code but the application fail to compile DLL.Nothing particularly smart if I remember correctly. It was easy task.I'm running Windows 8 with VS 2012 so I can't help much further, sorry. @spudw2k, what's your system? ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudw2k Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Win7 x64 SP1 Spoiler Things I've Made: Always On Top Tool ◊ AU History ◊ Deck of Cards ◊ HideIt ◊ ICU ◊ Icon Freezer ◊ Ipod Ejector ◊ Junos Configuration Explorer ◊ Link Downloader ◊ MD5 Folder Enumerator ◊ PassGen ◊ Ping Tool ◊ Quick NIC ◊ Read OCR ◊ RemoteIT ◊ SchTasksGui ◊ SpyCam ◊ System Scan Report Tool ◊ System UpTime ◊ Transparency Machine ◊ VMWare ESX BuilderMisc Code Snippets: ADODB Example ◊ CheckHover ◊ Detect SafeMode ◊ DynEnumArray ◊ GetNetStatData ◊ HashArray ◊ IsBetweenDates ◊ Local Admins ◊ Make Choice ◊ Recursive File List ◊ Remove Sizebox Style ◊ Retrieve PNPDeviceID ◊ Retreive SysListView32 Contents ◊ Set IE Homepage ◊ Tickle Expired Password ◊ Transpose ArrayProjects: Drive Space Usage GUI ◊ LEDkIT ◊ Plasma_kIt ◊ Scan Engine Builder ◊ SpeeDBurner ◊ SubnetCalcCool Stuff: AutoItObject UDF ◊ Extract Icon From Proc ◊ GuiCtrlFontRotate ◊ Hex Edit Funcs ◊ Run binary ◊ Service_UDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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