BCGControlBar adds new chart types

Version 15.1 adds ternary, doughnut and torus chart, plus linear gauge, and support for logarithmic scales of any base.

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Updates in V15.1

New Features:

• Chart Control: The following new chart types were added: Ternary Chart, Doughnut Chart and Torus Chart
• Added support for logarithmic scales of any base
• Added trend line support with the following built-in approximations (see a new class CBCGPChartTrendFormula): Linear, Exponential, Logarithmic, Power, Polynomial of order 2 - 6
• Transition (formula) support has been implemented in a new class CBCGPChartTransitionFormula. It can take several input series and generate data points using either built-in transitions (sum, diff, multiply, divide, average etc), or custom transitions (you can specify a callback implementing a custom formula).
• Virtual series support allows to display any custom function on the diagram.
• "Chart Objects" feature allows you to add annotation and other objects (like lines or colored zones) to a Chart or diagram.
• The main Chart controller (CBCGPChartVisualObject) provides the following helpers to allow you to add Chart Objects quickly using the following methods: AddChartObject, AddChartTextObject, AddChartLineObject, AddChartRangeObject and AddChartAxisMarkObject.
• "Chart Effects" feature enables you to add interline coloring effects to a diagram. See new classes CBCGPChartBaseEffect, CBCGPChartInterLineColoringEffect.
• Axes can display scroll bars. Use two new methods ShowScrollBar and SetAlwaysShowScrollBar defined in CBCGPChartAxis, or helpers defined in CBCGPChartVisualObject: ShowScrollBar (enables scroll bar for a given axis) and ShowScrollBars (enables scroll bars for all axes).
• Linear Gauge has been added to the Gauges collection: the new class CBCGPLinearGaugeImpl implements the linear gauge.
• Added ability to save/load Dialogs and Property Sheets window placements. The following methods have been added:
• CBCGPDialog::EnableLoadWindowPlacement
• CBCGPPropertySheet::EnableLoadWindowPlacement
• Grid additions Added Find support - the following new methods have been added to the CBCGPGridCtrl class: OpenFindReplaceDlg, CloseFindReplaceDlg, Find, OnPrepareFindString, OnTextNotFound, OnTextFound

Fixes:

• CBCGPGridCheckItem now can print a check mark.
• Fixed painting of the right side of the grid header.
• Fix in CBCGPGridCtrl::OnLButtonUp for disabled grid items.
• Fixed a problem with drawing rotated texts using CBCGPGraphicsManagerGDI.
• Fixed problem with drawing dates with year less than 1900 in CBCGPDateTimeCtrl and CBCGPCalendar under VS 2005 and higher.
• Fixed some problems in Chart Control.

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