UIRibbon

[Nikolay Sivov]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 at 23:53, Fabian Maurer <dark.shadow4 at web.de> wrote:

> Hi Wine-Devel,
>
> I'm currently working on a patchset to get UIRibbon to work, or at least to
> not crash the program.
>
> I noticed that the ribbon xml files need to be compiled with a program
> called
> UICC.exe from the windows SDK, the resulting resources have some
> proprietary
> binary format. If we want to load and display a ribbon, we'll have to
> understand it.


This sounds like a blocker to me, at this point at least. What are the
options for applications? Can you use raw xml too (this could be useful if
ribbon description is generated in runtime)?

>
> Does anyone know about information on that, or is the only way to reverse
> engineer it?

Does it use DirectUI thing or something similarly undocumented and unstable?

>
>
> Regards,
> Fabian Maurer
>
>
>
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