I no longer use MS Windows but there is much talk of the "ribbon" widget used in MS products such as Word and Access. I originally came accross this type of layout many years ago when the MAYA 3D animation system was ported to Windows. Although it dominated the UI I could see its appeal and it mean that a lot of controls could be packed into a relatively small space. A ribbon bar, of course, is simply a megawidget with it children be compact versions of toobars, comboboxes and buttons. Here a simple screen shot found on the web...
And here a protype gnocl quivalent. The ribbon bar itself is simply a horizontal box into which table widgets are added. The table can then be given a group id and a title. In the example below the ribbon is contained within a notebook page.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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