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 One to finally replace the outdated 1.1 currently available.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

Hello everyone,

I just posted a new beta version of RibbonCustomizer (V1.2). That version should fix the bug that a lot of you are experiencing with RibbonCustomizer not working.

It would be great, if you can download and install it. Please give me feedback, whether the add-in works for you again afterwards or not.

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid

Hello everybody,

contrary to what it looks like and contrary towards my habit of not answering a lot of your emails, RibbonCustomizer is not dead. My problem is that I am short of time due to my full-time job as a management consultant.

I hear all your concerns though and especially the ones related to the beta version of the add-in not working at all for some of you. That particular issue I am trying to resolve, but unfortunately it will take some time as it is difficult to debug.

Thank you for being my customers and I apologize for my prolonged absence.

Patrick Schmid

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.

I just posted a new RibbonCustomizer release with lots of bug fixes related to custom image handling.

Unfortunately, I had to change the image handling code substantially. This new release cannot read images created with the previous one. It should simply not load them and you can add them manually again. If you encounter problems with this, please use the support options.

Download the latest beta