Ribbon like Office 2007 ?

[Jango 1]

Hello,

Is there a way to do a ribbon like Office 2007 ?

Regards

[GEOSoft 63]

Not so far it seems. I've been looking for that myself since last night. I was even wondering about embedding the dot net control.

[rajeshontheweb 0]

hmm, Microsoft is trying to get a patent on the WPF Ribbon Control, and currently one has to go through a bit of procedures to use it in their visual studio / etc projects here u get a license to use the UI methods in your project and microsoft would always be able to dictate the methods , properties , limitations on the control object(?)

and of course, we would need a bit of workaround to see how far it can be implemented in autoit.

detailed examples : third party Microsoft

Edited May 13, 2009 by rajeshontheweb

[Jango 1]

hmm, Microsoft is trying to get a patent on the WPF Ribbon Control, and currently one has to go through a bit of procedures to use it in their visual studio / etc projects here u get a license to use the UI methods in your project and microsoft would always be able to dictate the methods , properties , limitations on the control object(?)

and of course, we would need a bit of workaround to see how far it can be implemented in autoit.

detailed examples : third party Microsoft

Thank you for your replay, anyone know if it exists a another control like the one of Micro$oft ?

[GEOSoft 63]

Thank you for your replay, anyone know if it exists a another control like the one of Micro$oft ?

I've seen some C# for creating one but the minimum OS is Win 7 I think.

[james3mg 1]

I may be thinking too simply, but...depending on what exact parts of the ribbon you wanted to emulate, couldn't you just use a tab control positioned at the top of the window with buttons on it? If you wanted to "minimize" the ribbon, I'm sure you could hide the tab control and unhide a similarly-formatted menu bar at the top of your GUI...

Not that I've tried...I'm just thinking out loud.

[martin 65]

I may be thinking too simply, but...depending on what exact parts of the ribbon you wanted to emulate, couldn't you just use a tab control positioned at the top of the window with buttons on it? If you wanted to "minimize" the ribbon, I'm sure you could hide the tab control and unhide a similarly-formatted menu bar at the top of your GUI...

Not that I've tried...I'm just thinking out loud.

I think you're right, but more importantly and a bit off topic-

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[GEOSoft 63]

I may be thinking too simply, but...depending on what exact parts of the ribbon you wanted to emulate, couldn't you just use a tab control positioned at the top of the window with buttons on it? If you wanted to "minimize" the ribbon, I'm sure you could hide the tab control and unhide a similarly-formatted menu bar at the top of your GUI...

Not that I've tried...I'm just thinking out loud.

There you go! You've been looking for something to do.

[GEOSoft 63]

I think you're right, but more importantly and a bit off topic-

Is there some significance of

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What do you mean by "Is there some significance of"? They are represented by the Chr() numbers you have below them. Do you mean are they still in use? In that case Yes.

[rajeshontheweb 0]

hmm, looking at the talks about the patent, i am unsure if microsft does succeed in the patent being filed, its gonna be a patented concept rather than just the dll ? aint it. in that case, even our own emulation , if it matches the output very closely, might be an issue. anyways, i would strongly think that keeping away its concept working model, which is entirely new, we could easily emulate the output just using the controls our way. only to use it in line with the conceptual guidelines, we might need to get involved with microsoft.

[martin 65]

What do you mean by "Is there some significance of"? They are represented by the Chr() numbers you have below them. Do you mean are they still in use? In that case Yes.

No, you misunderstood. In jams3mg's signature he has the ASCII codes in binary for his name and on the second line he has those codes. So iI just wondered why.

[james3mg 1]

No, you misunderstood. In jams3mg's signature he has the ASCII codes in binary for his name and on the second line he has those codes. So iI just wondered why.

Well, they don't make much sense themselves, do they? Maybe they have something to do with the line above it ...

Let's finish this in PM if you wish so as not to hijack the thread

[Sunaj 1]

This subject makes me think that it might be worth looking into loading the ribbon from a external dll. Question is whether anyone has released a free/open-source version? So far I've only come across commercial ones alike: http://www.componentsource.com/products/bc.../index-gbp.html

EDIT Look at the demo on: http://www.menendezpoo.com/a.php?h=a4905e870cd806 it seems to load a fully functional Ribbon system from an external DLL file (download on the upper right on page) - and it is Open Source Can anyone validate whether this is loadable from within AutoIt?! (sorry I don't have the dll call skills needed)

Edited May 16, 2009 by Sunaj

[GEOSoft 63]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details...;displaylang=en

[rajeshontheweb 0]

we do have a great tool available with us already, the visual autoit debugger, but i think thats visual studio.

literally thats what i said, once microsoft gets to file the patent registration. i would think microsoft will make the dll file publicly available (sans registration et all) and then we will be able to device UDFs to use all the dll functionalities just like we do with any other microsoft api.

[zackrspv 5]

This subject makes me think that it might be worth looking into loading the ribbon from a external dll. Question is whether anyone has released a free/open-source version? So far I've only come across commercial ones alike: http://www.componentsource.com/products/bc.../index-gbp.html

EDIT Look at the demo on: http://www.menendezpoo.com/a.php?h=a4905e870cd806 it seems to load a fully functional Ribbon system from an external DLL file (download on the upper right on page) - and it is Open Source Can anyone validate whether this is loadable from within AutoIt?! (sorry I don't have the dll call skills needed)

Doesn't look like it is, as it doesn't have a IDispatch interface, and cannot be registered on the system. I too am looking for a simliar functionality, as it would add greatly to my ticketing interface i'm creating.

[UEZ 969]

There is a Office 2007 Bar UDF project on German AutoIt site: RibbonsBar

Have a look!

UEZ

[GEOSoft 63]

There is a Office 2007 Bar UDF project on German AutoIt site: RibbonsBar

Have a look!

UEZ

Looks good. I guess nobody wants to translate it to English and post it here though.

[zackrspv 5]

Looks good. I guess nobody wants to translate it to English and post it here though.

Ok, sounds like my next project, loads up the post...

Bah, it's just an immitation, not actually the real objects.

It just LOOKS like it cuz it uses images.

Edited January 17, 2010 by zackrspv

[UEZ 969]

Ok, sounds like my next project, loads up the post...

Bah, it's just an immitation, not actually the real objects.

It just LOOKS like it cuz it uses images.

But it looks very good!

Btw, you do not have to use it if you don't like this method of "immitation" the ribbon bar!

UEZ