BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition MFC v30.2

Includes new Microsoft Office 2019-style Visual Themes.

Features

• Themes
  • Microsoft Office 2019-style Visual Themes are now available. A new class CBCGPVisualManager2019 implements the following visual styles: Colorful, Dark Gray, White and Black.
    These new styles were added to BCGP_VISUAL_THEME enumeration:
  • BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_OFFICE_2019_COLORFUL
  • BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_OFFICE_2019_DARK_GRAY
  • BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_OFFICE_2019_WHITE
  • BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_OFFICE_2019_BLACK
• Chart Control
  • Implemented tooltip support for the chart objects: new SetTooltip, GetTooltip and GetDescription methods were added to CBCGPChartObject class.
  • Improved Chart tooltips support: using a new method CBCGPChartVisualObject::SetHitTooltipFlags you may now specify which chart parts should have tooltips. By default, tooltips are displayed for the Chart axis, data points, axis scale breaks and data table cells.
• Shell Management
  • Implemented shell notification support: when shell control content is changed outside the application, the control is notified about this and will be automatically updated. A new method RegisterShellNotification was added to CBCGPShellBreadcrumb, CBCGPShellList and CBCGPShellTree classes.
  • Implemented themed "Browse for Folder" dialog.
    The following methods have a new, optional parameter bThemedBrowseFolderDlg:
    • CBCGPShellManager::BrowseForFolder
    • CBCGPEdit::EnableFolderBrowseButton
    • CBCGPFileProp constructor
• Miscellaneous
  • CBCGPComboBox: method CalcRowHeight is now virtual.
  • CBCGPDrawManager: new helper AreContrastColors tells whether 2 specified colors have enough contrast.
  • CBCGPMenuBar: implemented right-aligned menu bar items.
    The following new methods were added to this class:
    • AddItemToRight: add an item to the menu bar right side
    • RemoveAllItemsOnRight: remove all right-aligned menu bar items
  • CBCGPRibbonCheckBox: implemented right-aligned text label - SetRightAlignText and IsRightAlignText methods were added to this class.
  • CBCGPDiagramVisualContainer: new method 'RemoveSelected' deletes selected diagram's objects and connectors.
  • CBCGPPlannerViewSchedule: implemented ability to show/hide the duration bar in schedule view. EnableDurationBar and IsDurationBarEnabled methods were added to this class.
  • CBCGPWnd: improved MSAA support for Visual C++ 6.0.
• Examples and Samples
  • BCGPChartExample: added object tooltips demonstration.
  • BCGPControls: demonstrates a themed "Browse for folder" dialog and Shell notification.
  • BCGPExplorer: demonstrates Shell notification.
  • BCGPMSOfficeDemo, DrawCLI, Wordpad and RibbonGadgets: illustrate Office 2019 (Office 365)-style Ribbon bar.
  • MenuLogo: demonstrates right-aligned menu bar items.

Fixes

• CBCGPCalendar and CBCGPDateTimeCtrl: addressed issue with incorrect treating December 30, 1899 as empty date.
• CBCGPScrollDialog: addressed issue with slow scrolling on mouse wheel event.
• CBCGPRibbonCaptionMDITabs: addressed issue with invisible highlighted tab Close button when a custom Windows 10 accent color is red.
• CBCGPRibbonCheckBox: addressed issue with incorrect foreground color when the control was placed on the status bar (in some visual themes).
• CBCGPEditCtrl: addressed issue with incorrect caret position during the text block dragging.
• CBCGPWinApp: addressed issue with a multiple times visual theme selection in the application's constructor.
• CBCGPScrollBarImpl: addressed issue with incorrect thumb size for Windows 8 and later.
• CBCGPSVGImage: addressed issue with incorrect order of 'use' elements.
• CBCGPVisualContainer: addressed issue with different graphics managers in several calls of ExportToBitmap method.
• CBCGPCircularProgressIndicatorImpl: addressed issue with animation in marque mode when parent (owner) window is being destroyed.
• CBCGPTreeCtrlEx: addressed some node toggling issues in Expand method.