Hey gurus,

am having a little challenge with my lingua franca - Java.

So am calling on the founders and fathers of the language for help .

I was working on a project and i used SWT Ribbon tool bar. But I don't know if SWT Ribbon gives you the ability to add widgets to the RibbonShell

if it does, please show me how. If not , is there a better API for implementing the Ribbon Tool bar in Java?

This is post is old,I saw it while trying to add widgets,canvas and composite to a ribbonshell.what i had to do was to call the getShell method of my RibbonShell class which returns the underlying swt shell like this

GridLayout glMainBoard = new GridLayout();
glMainBoard.numColumns = 2;
shell.getShell().setLayout(glMainBoard);

so i set the ribbontabfolder to its own space using griddata thus

GridData gdFolder = new GridData(GridData.FILL, GridData.FILL, true, true);
gdFolder.horizontalSpan = 2;
gdFolder.heightHint = 30;
folder.setLayoutData(gdFolder);

You can see,its gridlayout,i bet you know its very flexible and then placed other widgets as i wanted.I hope this helps.let me show you a screen shot of what it looks like.dont mind the ugliness,this is design stage.