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When working with tables in Words for instance I find the ribbon very useful. Guess it's a matter of whether you want to adapt yourself or not

The only advantage of a ribbon I see is the double-click on the "start" menu to provide more space for looking at the document, especially in group working on a document presented on a beamer.
Otherwise: more clicks necessary to my exprience.

But: if there is any kind of library in Purebasic providing the functions...why not?
No priority, but sometimes later it maybe nice to have.

Greetings
LN

I use Microsoft Office a lot and I find the ribbon very useful. Sure, it takes a bit of getting used to if you have spent your whole life dealing with drop-down menus but I find it much easier to have one big block of icons instead of having to crawl through drop-down menus and submenus. It's much easier and faster to find the tools I want to use.
I'd definitely like this to be implimented in PureBASIC.

ozzie wrote:I used to have a ribbon bar in my program until someone pointed out that Microsoft have copyright over the design. So I changed my menu bar design and dropped the word 'ribbon' from my documentation. I understand that MS have subsequently relaxed their conditions and you can now sign up for a license (free).

It's interesting how companies like Microsoft "invented" concepts that had been in common use in the industry for decades.

In the 1980's, DOS based console applications often reserved the bottom two rows for displaying "buttons". These buttons could be activated by pressing a Function key or Alpha key. Press a top-row button, and a new set of buttons appeared on the bottom row. Just like a tabbed ribbon on a GUI.

This was a fast way of navigating around an application -- and it still is. I continue to use two rows of buttons at the bottom of my GUI screens. In fact, that's the only place I use buttons.