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Are there any plans to allow FWH to provide the interface used in the new Office 2007 products ?

Tim,

I assume you are talking about the ribbon control. If so, it has already been developed. Search the newsgroup for it--there was a discussion about a month or so ago.

I have mixed feelings about it. It certainly looks great. But it was specifically developed for use with document formatting--it has a lot of formatting previews. It appears on Word and Excel but not on Outlook. Outlook is mostly a database program and thus is more similar to what most of us develop. Nevertheless, when I have time, I would still like to get a copy and do some prototyping with it to see how it might work for database applications.

James

James,

I'll do a search. Actually I installed the "Trial" version after running the beta for several versions. The trial was on a relatively new machine. It seemed to install, but I couldn't send out any emails, and of course there were no support notes when the install failed. So I had to uninstall it and go back to a previous version which now has issues.

Those DOS days were so much easier !

I agree that I have mixed feelings but it might be something that could be useful.

Tim

Hello James,

there are many parts in Outlook where they have implemented RibbonBar. Everywhere when you click on "New": “New message”, “New date”, etc. .
I am sure Outlook 2008 does have it everywhere.

RibbonBar (FW has it but since a month no further news – why? ) and a Fivewin-browser with more features and also an IDE are a must for the languages future.

Regards
Otto

Otto,

>there are many parts in Outlook where they have implemented RibbonBar. Everywhere when you click on "New": “New message”, “New date”, etc. .

Thanks for the update. I haven't seen the new version, I was just reporting what I had read.

James

Hello James,

I installed Vista Beta and Office Beta in summer in our office on my wife’s PC.
It was the first time I didn’t hear “Why did you change the software?” .
Also our own FW-application – still 16 bit – runs stable.
Regards
Otto