About Customizing Ribbon Panels

You can create ribbon panels from scratch or from an existing ribbon panel. Once a ribbon panel is created, you can add, rearrange, and remove commands or controls on a ribbon panel.

Ribbon panels are organized by rows, sub-panels, and slide-out elements to organize how commands and controls are displayed on the ribbon. A slide-out is automatically added to each ribbon panel and is used to determine which rows are shown by default. Rows located below a slide-out are displayed only when a ribbon panel is expanded.

Ribbon tabs are used to control the display of ribbon panels on the ribbon. Once a ribbon tab is defined and ribbon panels are added to it, the ribbon tab needs to be added to a workspace in order for it to be displayed in the application window.

The following table describes the properties of the Home 2D - Draw ribbon panel as they appear in the Properties pane.

Properties for the Home 2D - Draw Ribbon Panel

Properties Pane Item

Description

Example

Name

Name of the ribbon panel; does not appear in the user interface.

Home 2D - Draw

Display Text

Title of the ribbon panel; displayed when the ribbon is set to display titles or when a panel is floating.

Draw

KeyTip

Specifies the character sequence to access the ribbon panel from the keyboard when the Alt key is pressed.

Note: In order to use keytips, the MENUBAR system variable must be set to 1.

DW

Aliases

Specifies the aliases for the ribbon panel. Each alias in a CUIx file should be unique and is used to reference the ribbon panel programmatically.

ID_Draw

Element ID

Tag that uniquely identifies the ribbon panel.

ID_PanelDraw

Note: You can also create a ribbon panel from an existing toolbar or a dashboard panel from an earlier release of the program.