Menu and Command Bar Customization

User access to functionality provided via an addin is normally provided through the use of ribbon menus and tools on a commandbar. Reference was made earlier, in the User Guide about addin commands, that the Common Application Framework (CAF) provides a mechanism to allow the use of ribbon menus and commandbars for an application to be defined in a User Interface Customization (UIC) file. This section provides details of how a CAF based application can be configured to load a UIC file, and how the UIC file can be edited using the applications interactive user interface customization tool. Newer modules, for example Model and Draw use the Ribbon commandbar, this is configured in the same way as the original toolbar (detailed below).