Overview

The EiffelRibbon design tool allows you to design a ribbon graphically, then generate the ribbon markup file and the Eiffel classes necessary to implement your design.

Figure 1: An EiffelRibbon project open in the EiffelRibbon design tool.

The interface of the design tool mimics that of EiffelBuild.

Introduction

EiffelRibbon is a library of classes with an associated tool which allows the integration of the Microsoft Windows "Ribbon" into graphical user interfaces programmed with EiffelVision 2 and targeted to Microsoft Windows. The ribbon is part of a revamped user interface approach introduced by Microsoft with the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office applications.