A lap around Windows 7 new Scenic Ribbon

Posted By: Yochay Kiriaty | Oct 31st, 2008 @ 11:19 AM | 71,464 Views | 13 Comments

Windows 7 has a new shiny Ribbon platform developers can leverage to create new user experience for their applications. Using the Windows 7 Ribbon, developers can eliminate much of the drudgery of Win32 UI development and deliver a rich, graphical, animated, and highly familiar user interface by using markup based UI and a small, high-performance, native code runtime.

Join Nicolas Brun and Ryan Demopoulos as they explain what Windows 7 Ribbon is all about, how developers can use it, and why Microsoft investments resources in creating a new Ribbon for Windows 7? Nicolas will also show some code and Mark-up just to show how easy it is to integrate this new technology.


You can also see Nicolas PDC Session here
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#Jan 15th @ 6:49 AM
Tinker
Tinker
No advancement shoudl require MORE steps than the system it replaces, and the ribbon in Office 2007 and Windwos 7 Beta both require more steps than the classic menu they replace.  I should never HAVE to left my hands from the keyboard to initialize a command or to view a menu/sub-menu; it's a basic pronciple fo ergonomics, unless MS is re-writing the book on ergonomics?

An ISP used to say (before they got big and did it themselves) that no one shoudl dumb-down the Internet for all users (and extendind that, no one should dumb-down computing for all users).  The ribbon dumbs-down computing to the point that long-time users and power users find it takes several times longer to do something inherently simple.

I've been trying Windows 7 Beta for several days and have to admit that if Windows 7 final release relies on the ribbon, without any opportunity to choose a classic menuing system, I'll reject it.  And I say RATS! because in many other ways it is terrific - but the ribbon is as big a deal-breaker as it currently is with Office 2007.

We don't need things that just because they're cool any more than we need things that are added just because they can be.
 
#Jan 18th @ 10:32 PM
jashwood
jashwood
So what's the verdict? The MFC Ribbon was one of the best advantages to actually continue coding in MFC currently.

Are we now saying that all that work we've put into learning the new Ribbon classes is out the window!!???

Please someone answer!
#Aug 4th @ 8:16 AM
marjiea1
marjiea1

Be careful what you ask for as far as productivity or you'll lose your QWERTY keyboard next.

#Oct 26th @ 1:47 PM
ccl
ccl

For those can't, or don't want to, think for themselves but would rather have the new iteration of MS Bob hold their hands while doing basic "baby" tasks while keeping true functionality hidden, consider this, its at your level.

 

Monitors are virtually all wide screen with significantly less vertical viewing space. Good for movies, useless for much else. (Another statement on the sophistication of the audience that manufacturers and MS are marketing to) With less vertical viewing space, MS is their great wisdom decides to eat up even more of it with a ribbon.

 

If "pretty" and "toys" are your criteria for evaluating OS usability you might want to go back to crayons.

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