There is already an Open Source ribbon control that models the Microsoft Ribbon - it's in the Flamingo UI Library: https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/radiance
It's Swing only, but some of the logic that controls how items/panels are hidden as the panel resizes may be of value, see some screenshots here: https://blog.frankel.ch/flamingo-tutorial/ Ian On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 09:17, Wim Jongman <wim.jong...@remainsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > > > That is great news! Do you think we should contact Microsoft to know if we > can reverse engineer the ribbbon? Maybe the EMO (in cc) is able to advise > us. > > > > We are talking about recreating the Microsoft Ribbon which is attached in > a picture. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Wim > > > > > > *From:* nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto: > nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] *On Behalf Of *Laurent Caron > *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:29 > *To:* Nebula Dev > *Subject:* Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon" > > > > Hi Team, > > > > Well I've checked RWT and the source code has not been published. > > > > So I've decided to start to work on this feature. Do you know any "flat > icon" library that can be included in a EPL project ? > > > > Have a nice evening, > > > > Laurent > > > > > > Le lun. 25 févr. 2019 à 10:10, Laurent Caron <laurent.ca...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > Hi Ralf, > > > > I agree with you: Microsoft is very proud of Ribbon Bar (that's why it has > been introduced in the File Explorer of Windows 10), but the gap for users > is very important. I remember the arrival of Office 2007, many people where > puzzled, but once > > you accustomed, you are very productive. I agree also with the fact that > companies should take care of this UI feature, it can be a big mess (as far > as I know, the Ribbon was tested during 2 years by Microsoft Labs before > being shipped). > > > > I never heard about RWT but I'll have a look, thanks. > > > > By the way, does anyone interested in this project ? > > > > Laurent > > > > > > Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 23:16, Ralf Heydenreich <rheyd...@justmail.de> a > écrit : > > Am 24.02.2019 um 17:29 schrieb Laurent Caron: > > Hi, > > > > Well if my level of Wim's language is good enough, a sentence with the > word "batmobile" means "Green light" 😉 > > > > As far as I remember, the look of Hexapixel's ribbon was really close to > the "office 2007" look... Nowadays, Word's ribbon is more flat, without > gradient... > > So my question is : should we start from the original ribbon by Emi, > should we build a new project from scratch or should we migrate project > like FXRibbon ([1]) from JavaFX to SWT ? > > > > I'm interested by this widget, who else ? > > > > Laurent > > > > [1] https://www.pixelduke.com/fxribbon/ > > > > Hi Laurent, > > a few months ago I've also player around with the Hexapixel Ribbon > library, but I've decided to not use it. I think, the concept of a "ribbon > bar" is specific for Microsoft applications, especially for Windows users. > MaOS and Linux users have other UI concepts. > > Nonetheless, I think we can work on such a ribbon widget for SWT, since a > lot of applications are running under Windows (in my experience). Therefore > it's good to have a well known concept of a UI. > > Btw, there's also a "Ribbon Widget Toolkit" ( > https://code.google.com/archive/p/rwt/), but it is completely in Chinese > language and I haven't work with it. > > Ralf > > > > > > > > Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 11:57, Wim Jongman <wim.jong...@remainsoftware.com> > a écrit : > > IIRC someone said there is no patent issue anymore. > > To the batmobile, let's go. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org <nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org> > on behalf of Christian Pontesegger <christian.ponteseg...@web.de> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:59:34 AM > *To:* Nebula Dev > *Subject:* Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon" > > > > Interesting IP situation. Do you now, does Eclipse try to sort out such > issues, eg by contacting Microsoft to find an alternate way of > licensing? > > Christian > > > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > nebula-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > nebula-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev -- Ian Mayo Deep Blue C Technology Ltd - New technologies, implemented well
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