For example, the different menus of the "Sales Management" application presented in ribbon:

In this example, the different elements of the Ribbon control are buttons but any type of control can be used.

At run time, the ribbon elements are more or less displayed according to the size of the window. If some elements cannot be displayed, a little arrow is used to "expand the ribbon" and to display all the elements in a popup window:

Notes:

• The TAB key pressed on an edit control found in the Ribbon control is used to go to the next control (according to the tabulation order).
• The ENTER key pressed on an edit control found in the Ribbon control has no effect.

1. On the "Creation" pane, in the "Containers" group, expand "Tab and associated" and click "Ribbon".
   Other possibility: On the "Window" pane, in the "Bars and menus" group, expand "Other bars" and select "Ribbon".
2. Click the position where the control will be created in the window. The control appears in creation mode.
3. Define the characteristics of the Ribbon control. To display the control characteristics, select "Description" from the popup menu of control.
4. Insert the requested controls into the different groupings. All types of controls can be included in a grouping.

Description of a Ribbon control

• define the different panes of the Ribbon control ("General" tab). For each pane, you have the ability to define:
  • the caption of the pane,
  • its initial status,
  • the image displayed beside the caption.
    The position of this image can be modified in the "Style" tab ("Caption of active pane" and "Captions of inactive panes" elements).
  • the tooltip of the pane.
• define the different groupings displayed by each pane ("General" tab). For each grouping, you have the ability to define:
  • the caption of the grouping. This caption will be displayed at the bottom of the grouping when this one is opened.
  • whether the pane displays a specific button ("With button (click process)").
    In this case, the click process of grouping will be run when this button is clicked by the user.
    This allows you to display a popup menu or a specific window for example, ...
  • the image that will be displayed when the grouping is reduced. The dimensions of this image must be set to 32 x 32.

• The image used for the drawing of the panes can be customized in the description window of the control ("Details" tab).
• Several options used to customize the panes and the groupings are available in the description window of the control ("Style" tab).

Using buttons in a Ribbon control

• avoid reducing the control.
• reduce it to display the image of button and its caption.
• reduce it to display the image of button.