Includes Ribbon Bar Auto-hide mode, new chart color themes, plus switch-style Boolean property.
Features
- Ribbon Bar
- Implemented Office 2013/2016-like Ribbon Bar Auto-hide mode.
- Added ability to specify whether the Ribbon custom caption button should be displayed.
- CBCGPRibbonBar:: ReplaceRibbonElementByID has a new optional parameter bIncludeHidden.
- Toolbars and Menus
- CBCGPColorMenuButton class has a new virtual method "CreateTearOffColorBar".
- CBCGPColorBar: added owner-draw color boxes support.
- Implemented ability to hide toolbar/menu bar items with an empty items list.
- Dialogs and Forms
- Added new registered message BCGM_ONERASECHILDCONTROLBACKGROUND.
- BCGPControlInfoTipStyle: added new info tip styles - BCGPINFOTIP_Warning, BCGPINFOTIP_InfoBlue, BCGPINFOTIP_Question and BCGPINFOTIP_Bulb.
- CBCGPPropertySheet: improved page redrawing performance upon changing active page and window resizing.
- Chart Control
- Implemented new color themes.
- Implemented hit-testing and data-point tooltip for the 3D Surface chart.
- Gauge Controls
- Added a new class CBCGPNumericIndicatorCtrl: implements a Windows control with underlined numeric indicator (CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl).
- Implemented smoothly transitioning numbers in CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl: uiAnimationTime and animationType parameters were added to CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl::SetValue method.
- New method "CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl::SetTextFormatAutoSize" specifies whether a control text size should be changed upon control resizing.
- Grid and Report Controls
- New virtual method allows customization of data color scale.
- Filter bar keyboard support has been improved: added support for the standard keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+A.
- Property Grid Control
- Added switch-style Boolean property plus a new method specifies the switch labels (like "On" / "Off").
- CBCGPPropList::SetBooleanPropertiesStyle has a new optional parameter 'nHorzAlign': specifies a horizontal align of the check box/switch.
- Controls
- Added standard Windows keyboard accelerators (such as "Ctrl+C") processing to all edit controls.
- CBCGPListBox: improved hit testing performance for control with a large number of items.
- CBCGPTreeCtrl: added support for themed (visual manager-style) check boxes.
- CBCGPListCtrl: added support for themed (visual manager-style) check boxes.
- Graphics Manager
- Implemented D2D validation in CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D: CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::InitD2D: if D2D is not properly installed on the machine, all future renderings will be performed by CBCGPGraphicsManagerGDIPlus or CBCGPGraphicsManagerGDI.
- CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D::CreateImage and CBCGPGraphicsManagerGdiPlus::CreateImage: implemented loading of external SVG files.
- Miscellaneous
- BCGCBProConfig.h: added new build flag "BCGP_EXCLUDE_SVG". Uncomment this definition and rebuild the library if you wish to exclude SVG support.
- CBCGPContextMenuManager: added a new method "CancelTracking". Call this method if you need to close the menu during CBCGPContextMenuManager::TrackPopupMenu call.
- CBCGPKeyHelper: added new public static member 'm_pKeyFormatCallback'. Specify this member if you wish to implement your custom key format.
- CBCGPRegistry: added a new static flag 'm_bAutoCloseKey'. Set this flag to TRUE if you wish to close a previous registry key in CBCGPRegistry::CreateKey and CBCGPRegistry::Open methods.
- Examples and Samples
- BCGPControls: added demonstration of custom color buttons, custom color property and Boolean property switch.
- BCGPChartExample: added new chart color themes and interactive 3D surface chart demonstration.
- BCGPGaugesDemo: added demonstration of numeric indicator animation.
- BCGPGridExample: added custom grid color item.
- BCGPMSOfficeDemo: added Ribbon auto-hide mode demonstration.
- ResizableForm: demonstrates page transition effect in the resizable property sheet.
- RibbonGadgets: added Ribbon auto-hide mode demonstration.
Fixes
- CBCGPAnimCtrl: addresses an issue with control appearance in preview mode.
- CBCGPCalendar: addresses an issue with control layout when max. date is specified.
- CBCGPLightBoxDialog: addresses an issue with caption button mouse highlighting.
- Control info tips: addresses an issue with control appearance in preview mode.
- CBCGPToolBarImages::CopyTemp: addresses an issue with copying SVG images.
- CBCGPMDIChildWnd: addresses an issue with updating Ribbon bar caption when MDI child is maximized.
- CBCGPMessageBox: addresses an issue with message box displayed from the popup menu.
- CBCGPScrollBar: addresses an issue with control appearance in RTL mode.
- CBCGPScrollBar: addresses an issue with incorrect hit-testing on control edges.
- CBCGPPageTransitionManager: addresses an issue with incorrect fade animation.
- CBCGPRibbonBar: addresses an issue with incorrect location of dropped-down category window (in the Ribbon bar minimized mode). In the previous product versions, the popup category rectangle was normalized in the current screen.
- CBCGPPropertySheet: addresses an issue with page transitions in the resizable property sheet.
- CBCGPTabbedControlBar: addresses an issue with restoring tab names. The old docking pane names are not assigned to the tab labels anymore.
- CBCGPStatic: addresses an issue with drawing separator in the preview mode.
- CBCGPSliderCtrl: addresses an issue with incorrect redrawing of zoom buttons in some cases.
- CBCGPPropertySheet: addresses an issue with Windows task bar icon flickering during page transition when the property sheet is a main application window.
- CBCGPPropertySheet: a navigation pane (located at the left side) has a correct tab order now.
- CBCGPFrameImpl: addresses an issue with incorrect frame shadow when user moves application's frame between monitors with different resolutions.
- CBCGPMaskEdit: addresses an issue with wrong Ctrl+navigation key processing when edit control mask is disabled.