BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition MFC v31.2

Improves Toolbars and Menus, Ribbon Bar and Chart controls.

Features

• Ribbon Bar
  • Improved Ribbon commands search:
    • CBCGPRibbonCommandsMenuCustomItems has a new member: m_strInputPrev (contains previously typed text).
    • New CBCGPRibbonCommandSearchOptions structure member: m_bAlwaysRebuildResultsMenu specifies whether the search results list should be always re-created.
    • Added new virtual method CBCGPVisualManager::GetRibbonCommandsComboIcon.
  • Added ability to specify minimize button location: this button can be positioned on the right side of the tabs row (as in Microsoft Office 2010 applications) or on the bottom-right side of category area (like Microsoft Office 2013 - 2019).
• Toolbars and Menus
  • BCGM_RESETTOOLBAR registered message: LPARAM now contains a pointer to CBCGPToolBar object.
  • CBCGPToolBar::SetNonPermittedCommands: added a new optimal parameter "bCheckForChanges" (FALSE by default). If this parameter is TRUE and list of non-permitted commands is not changed, no actions are performed.
  • New class: CBCGPToolbarSlider implements a CBCGPToolbarButton-derived toolbar control with embedded CBCGPSliderCtrl.
• Dialogs and Forms
  • CBCGPPropertySheet: added a new virtual method IsPageTransitionReversedOrder.
  • New method CBCGPPropertySheetCtrl::GetRecommendedSize returns a size required for displaying all pages and navigation (tab) control.
• MDI Windows and Tabs
  • Improved frame captions bar:
    • Added the ability to automatically create custom caption buttons on detached frame captions.
    • Added the ability to display captions on the right of MDI tabs.
  • CBCGPMDIFrameWnd has a new virtual method GetFrameCaptionMDITabsTitle.
• Chart Control
  • Improved chart thumbnails:
    • Added thumbnail mode for advanced Chart legend.
    • Developer can now specify a scaling ratio for all text labels in chart thumbnails.
    • Improved thumbnail appearance in Torus, Scatter and Ternary charts.
  • 3D charts walls drawing:
    • Added the ability to enable/disable wall jointing.
    • Improved wall appearance (both in thin and thick modes).
• Gauge Controls
  • CBCGPKnob: added disabled knob control drawing.
  • CBCGPCircularGaugeImpl: improved interactive mode - the pointer cannot be moved out of scale bounds anymore.
  • CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl has the following additions:
    • Invisible segments drawing.
    • Indicator state. A state can be Normal, Error or Off.
    • Internal padding.
    • Horizontal and vertical alignment.
• Diagram Control
  • Added the ability to prevent diagram font (text format) scaling when the diagram is being scaled.
  • Improved diagram appearance: a regular font is now used as a default.
• Controls
  • CBCGPTabWnd: added tab icon location.
  • CBCGPComboBox: added CComboBoxEx-like icon displayed left of the edit box.
  • CBCGPEdit: new method EnableIconOnLeft allows you to display an icon on the left side of control.
  • CBCGPSliderCtrl has the following additions and improvements:
    • New method allows you to change the thumb position to the clicked location when user clicks the channel.
    • New method allows you to swap minimal and maximal range values.
• Graphics Manager
  • CBCGPGraphicsManager: improved geometries scaling.
  • CBCGPImage: constructors with HICON and HBITMAP have a new optional parameter "bAutoDestroy" (FALSE by default). If this parameter is TRUE, icon/bitmap will be automatically destroyed in CBCGPImage destructor.
• Miscellaneous
  • Implemented Microsoft Windows 10 light/dark modes support:
  • Added new registered message BCGM_ONGLOBALFONTSCHANGED: sent to the main application window when global fonts (like globalData.fontRegular) are updated.
  • A global method BCGPTrackMouse is now exportable.
  • CBCGPToolBarImages: added new global member "m_bAlwaysCreateShadowImage" (default is FALSE). If this member is TRUE, the shadow image is created in all visual themes.
  • CBCGPHotSpotImageCtrl: added support for tooltips specified in SVG files ("title" and "desc" attributes).
  • CBCGPBreadcrumb::SelectSubPath: added new optional parameter "delimiter" ('\' by default).
  • CBCGPToolTipParams: added new flag "m_bHideDuplicatedDescription" (FALSE by default). If this flag is TRUE and tooltip name is the same as description, only name will be displayed in tooltip.
  • A new helper class CBCGPPostRedraw simplifies implementation of flicker-less controls.
  • CBCGPDrawManager: added a new method DrawEdge. This method is very similar to CDC::DrawEdge, but edge is rendered using current theme colors and can be drawn on DWM window area.
  • CBCGPSVGBase: added support for "title" and "desc" SVG node attributes; GetName and GetDescription methods were added.
  • Shell manager: added custom ("Quick access") folder support.
  • Added new virtual method CBCGPGridCtrl::OnKeepGroupWithChildrenOnNewPrintPage which specifies whether a grid group should be printed from the new page.