If you're talking about hooking into Office's ribbon control to extend it
maybe this information will help you get started (sorry can't help with OWL,
I haven't used that for over 10 years):
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/12/08/using-ribbonx-with-c-and-atl.aspx
If you are talking about using it in your own application the Ribbon Control
is part of Office and not part of Vista or WPF and they are being really
picky about who gets to use it (or anything that looks like it) in
applications. You can get a license to develop something that looks like
office (no cost), but you have to go through some hoops.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx
I don't know all the details, but my understanding is that you can't even
create a control that looks exactly like it unless your application doesn't
compete with any of the Office components. Then again, I've heard talk
about making it a common control as well so perhaps that will happen
somewhere along the way.
The XTreme Toolkit (new version 10) has a control that looks a lot like the
ribbon control without really crossing the line. It works with MFC.
http://www.codejock.com/products/commandbars/tour_2.asp
I haven't tried any of these, but Prof-UIS and Divelements also have
controls for .NET:
http://www.prof-uis.com/elegant-ribbon-control.aspx
http://www.divelements.co.uk/net/controls/sandribbon/
This article might be interesting to you:
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2006/12/20/ribbon-ui-control-roundup-for-developers.aspx
I haven't attempted to write anything like this, but I can imagine it would
be a ton of work.
Tom
Post by Lucio SaltaHi all,
You know if it 's possible to use RIBBONX or the new Windows vista UI with
thel OWL instead o MFC?
U' got some document that paves the way for using ribbonx with OWL? or the
same thing for MFC?
Thanks for ur answer.
Luke