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Supporting the Ribbon and Menus

Posted by Paul Parks on 27 December 2010, 11:07 pm

(I’ve posted a version of this article on Code Project.)

I’ve finally come back to Ripsaw, in a round-about way. I’ve started working on the client application again as a way to investigate the Windows Ribbon Framework. Originally, I had planned to create a Ribbon implementation for Windows 7 and later, and a menu-based implementation for earlier Windows versions, or for users that preferred a menu over the Ribbon.

Scratch Ribbon Project

After I played around with the API a while, I realized it would be fairly simple to support both the Ribbon and the traditional menu in one executable. In this article I’ll describe a sample app that I put together that shows how to accomplish support for both command-selection methods.

(Download the source code)
(Download the executable)
(Download the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable)

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Update on Ripsaw

Posted by Paul Parks on 22 April 2010, 6:39 pm

A while back I started an article series on a utility named Ripsaw. I have since gotten pretty busy with other projects, and the only extracurricular thing I’ve worked on in the meantime is the lesson series on how to play “Spanish Fly”. I was also waiting for Visual Studio 2010 to hit release, but I haven’t moved up to Professional yet, so I may actually drop the whole project back down to VS 2008 when I start it up again.

On top of all that, Blogger is yanking the rug out from under me with some changes to how it updates certain sites, and I want to get that resolved before I add any significant new content. I just wanted to let everyone know that the project isn’t dead; in fact, there have been several times over the last few weeks when I’ve needed a utility like Ripsaw, so this is definitely going to get done eventually.

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Ripsaw Library Implementation

Posted by Paul Parks on 24 November 2009, 4:00 am

In this installment of the Ripsaw article series we’ll start putting some actual code into an implementation of the COM interfaces that we specified in the last article. For those of you who just joined the series, Ripsaw is a log viewer for Windows, similar to the Unix tail utility. This series of articles details my rewrite of the application from the ground up.
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Ripsaw COM Interface, First Pass

Posted by Paul Parks on 9 November 2009, 10:40 pm

In this installment of the Ripsaw article series we’ll finally get to write some code. We’ve already gotten a pretty good idea about how we want to implement the core Ripsaw library, so now we’re going to define enough of the COM interface that we can create a simple test script that will eventually be used to exercise the library.

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