SARibbon

SARibbon Introduction

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Project Documentation: https://czyt1988.github.io/SARibbon/en
Detailed User Guide: SARibbon User Guide

Project Overview

SARibbon is a Ribbon UI control library for Qt, designed to provide desktop applications with a modern interface similar to Microsoft Office applications.

Use Cases

• Large-scale software
• Industrial software
• Complex desktop applications

Design Philosophy

• Interface naming inspired by MFC Ribbon
• Visual style blends the best of Microsoft Office and WPS Office Ribbon interfaces
• Supports rapid theme customization via QSS (Qt Style Sheets)
• Includes encapsulated common functional widgets, such as color picker buttons and color panels

Features

Ribbon Layout and Display

• Supports minimized mode, where only tabs are shown (double-clicking a tab toggles minimization by default). Contextual tabs are also supported.

• Supports Quick Access Bar (like Word's quick menu) and Right Button Group, with adaptive layout behavior in different modes.

• Supports four types of Ribbon buttons: standard push button, delayed popup menu button, menu button, and action menu button. (The action menu button addresses one of the core challenges this Ribbon control aims to solve.)

  See: Ribbon Button Layout Guide

• Offers six distinct layout styles — Loose 3-row, Loose 2-row, Compact 3-row, Compact 2-row, Loose Single-row, Compact Single-row — with Single-row mode ideal for space-constrained scenarios.
  Layout styles:

  Single-row layout:

  See: SARibbon Layout Guide

• Fully customizable via QSS, with real-time theme switching support. Includes 6 built-in themes:

  • Windows 7

  • Office 2013

  • Office 2016

  • Office 2021

  • Dark

  • Dark 2

  You can design any theme via QSS. See: Design Your Theme

• Provides a Gallery widget.

• Supports horizontal scrolling and Option Actions.

• Offers center-aligned mode.

• Fully compatible with 4K displays and multi-monitor setups.

• Supports Linux and macOS (UI not deeply optimized for these platforms).

• Provides RTL mode with automatic system detection.

License: MIT (free to use, modify, and distribute)
Contributions welcome: feel free to submit Issues, PRs, or join discussions!

Repositories

• Gitee (Chinese Git hosting)
• GitHub

Building and Usage

SARibbon provides amalgamated integration files (SARibbon.h and SARibbon.cpp) in the src/ directory — just include them in your project to get started.

To build as a dynamic library, see: SARibbon Build Instructions

Quick start guides:

• Create a Ribbon-Style Window
• Create a Ribbon Interface

We recommend starting with the example/MainWindowExample project to learn SARibbon usage. You can run it directly to explore all features interactively.

Project documentation is in the docs/en/ folder:
https://czyt1988.github.io/SARibbon/en

Doxygen-generated API documentation is deployed at: https://czyt1988.github.io/SARibbon/doxygen/index.html

Python Bindings

SARibbon provides Python bindings for three frameworks, allowing you to use SARibbon in Python applications:

Install via pip:

pip install PyQtSARibbon    # PyQt5
pip install PyQtSARibbon6   # PyQt6
pip install PySideSARibbon  # PySide6

For building from source and detailed usage, see:

• Build Python Bindings
• Use Python Bindings
• Build PySide6 Bindings
• Publish to PyPI

Python demo examples are in the pyexamples/ directory.

More Screenshots

• Screenshots of software built with SARibbon:

  DAWorkbench: GitHub | Gitee

  This is a data analysis application with agent support. It provides workflow and AI agent analysis capabilities — if you want to learn how to embed an AI agent into a C++/Qt application, this software is a good reference.

  The actual Ribbon generation code is available at:

  https://github.com/czyt1988/data-workbench/blob/master/src/APP/DAAppRibbonArea.cpp

Documentation Generation

Project documentation is built with MkDocs and deployed to GitHub Pages:
https://czyt1988.github.io/SARibbon/en

You can also generate documentation using Doxygen:

• docs/doxygen-doc-file/Doxyfile-qch-en: generates .qch files for integration into Qt Creator as Qt Help documentation. (Note: the -en variant does not yet exist — use Doxyfile-qch-cn as a reference, or create the -en version from it.)
• docs/doxygen-doc-file/Doxyfile-wiki-en: generates HTML documentation for browser viewing. (Note: the -en variant does not yet exist — use Doxyfile-wiki-cn as a reference, or create the -en version from it.)