art_aui is responsible for drawing all the components of the ribbon interface using an AUI-compatible appearance.
This allows a ribbon bar to have a pluggable look-and-feel, while retaining the same underlying behaviour. As a single art provider is used for all ribbon components, a ribbon bar usually has a consistent (though unique) appearance.
By default, a RibbonBar
uses an instance of a class called
RibbonDefaultArtProvider
,
which resolves to RibbonAUIArtProvider
,
RibbonMSWArtProvider
, or
RibbonOSXArtProvider
- whichever is most appropriate
to the current platform. These art providers are all
slightly configurable with regard to colours and fonts, but for larger modifications,
you can derive from one of these classes, or write a completely new art provider class.
Call RibbonBar.SetArtProvider()
to change the art provider being used.