Hallo everybody,

going forward, I’ll be aiming to release a new beta build every other Monday.

Today I posted a new beta build that comes with a major visual change: RibbonCustomizer will now adapt its look to your current Office 2007 color scheme. I also took a look at the automatic update feature and this should be working now.

If you encounter any bugs or annoyances, please post them in this forum thread. This will help me tremendously in getting a new stable release up and running. One to finally replace the outdated 1.1 currently available.

On my roadmap for the next stable release is adding one last feature (the ability to load a package, currently you can only save one), increasing the performance of the add-in (especially the time it takes to open the Customize Ribbon dialog), fully translating it into German, updating the documentation and fixing any bugs I encounter or hear about from you.

Thanks for your help!

Patrick

I posted earlier that the setup program of RibbonCustomizer triggered a virus alert with some virus scanners (see report). Kaspersky, one of the affected virus scanners, just informed me that it was a false positive virus alert and that the problem will be fixed as soon as possible. I will keep updating this post as I receive more replys from other anti-virus vendors. RibbonCustomizer will be available again for download now.

Virus scanner that trigger false alerts:

• AntiVir 7.8.1.15, definitions from 2008.08.05 - confirmed as false positive, fixed with definitions from 2008.08.13
• Avast 4.8.1195.0, definitions from 2008.08.13
• F-Secure 7.60.13501.0, definitions from 2008.08.06 - confirmed as false positive, fixed with definitions from 2008.08.10
• Fortinet 3.14.0.0, definitions from 2008.08.05 - confirmed as false positive, fixed with definitions from 2008.08.11
• GData 2.0.7306.1023, definitions from 2008.08.06
• Ikarus T3.1.1.34.0, definitions from 2008.08.06 - confirmed as false positive, fixed with definitions from 2008.08.13
• K7AntiVirus 7.10.413, definitions from 2008.08.13
• Kaspersky 7.0.0.125, definitions from 2008.08.06 - confirmed as false positive, fixed with definitions from 2008.08.09
• Norman 5.80.02, definitions from 2008.08.05
• VBA32 3.12.8.2, definitions from 2008.08.05
• ViRobot 2008.8.8.1329, definitions from 2008.08.08
• Webwasher-Gateway 6.6.2, definitions from 2008.08.05 - fixed with definitions from 2008.08.13

I want to assure all of you that all files distributed here are always thoroughly checked for viruses before being made available.

It has been a long time since I posted a new build of RibbonCustomizer. My new job has been keeping me very busy. I just didn’t have time to work on the add-in. Things have settled down a bit and I fixed a bunch of bugs in the add-in.

You can get the latest beta build as usual from http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/betaprogram.php

You can also look forward to new features in the not too distant future…

It has been a while since I released an new beta build of RibbonCustomizer. But, here is one

A lot of bug fixes went into this release, but the most notable change is the ability to pick your own icons. You can now use any Office 2007 icon for your macro buttons, or simply change the icon of any Office 2007 control you are using in your own group.

Download the new beta build.

P.S.: You cannot use your own custom icon in this build. I will provide that feature as well, but I wanted to just post this build as is, because it has been a while since there was a new build.

A developer can use Office 2007 icons in RibbonX via the imageMso attribute. To do so, she needs to only specify the idMso of the control which has the desired icon. Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it sounds, because any idMso available in any of the five ribbon applications (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word) can be used irrespective of the application. That means, an idMso from an Excel command can be used in Word as imageMso.

To make this easier, I created a unique imageMso list. This list was created by first finding all unique idMso’s across all ribbons (some 3,400 idMso’s), and then removing all the idMso’s that didn’t have their own icons, as well as all duplicates. The list differentiates between unique 16×16 and 32×32 icons, as well as unique pairs of 16×16 and 32×32 icons.

Download the imageMso list (Excel 2007 format).