Ribbon Designer

The Designer allows you to easily create mock-ups for real applications. It takes an existing MFC project as an input and generates an XML representation of ribbon elements along with RC files as an output. When the designer's part of the work is done, you just compile the project, run it, and see the designed ribbon bar in action. Thereafter, you just need to associate the ribbon controls with appropriate frame, view, or document methods using MFC ClassWizard.

Ribbon Designer:

Sample code:

// Declare the ribbon bar:
CBCGPRibbonBar m_wndRibbonBar;

// Create the ribbon bar:
m_wndRibbonBar.Create(this);

// Load the ribbon bar from XML resources created by designer:
m_wndRibbonBar.LoadFromXML (_T("IDR_BCGP_RIBBON_XML"));

// That's all! The ribbon is ready to use!

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