BCGSuite for MFC

What's new in BCGControlBar Pro for MFC Version 20.0

Touch/Gesture Support
BCGSoft have implemented extended gestures support for most of their controls. In addition, they've implemented an easy to use, compact and intuitive Windows Gesture API wrapper, so you can add the touch support to your application in few lines of code.

WinUI Tiles

• Implemented custom views associated with a tile/caption button
• Added keyboard navigation support
• Implemented Group Captions in the WinUI Tiles control
• Added Navigation “Back Button”
• Added custom caption buttons
• Implemented tiles scrollbar custom color theme
• Added custom badge glyphs support

Chart Control

• Added chart series shadow effect
• Implemented Pie and Polar charts interactivity

Diagram control

• A diagram connector now has line thickness and line style attributes
• Added ability to specify a custom text format in Diagram Text Object

Graphics Manager

• Added ‘Underline’ and ‘Strikethrough’ attributes to CBCGPTextFormat class
• Implemented luminosity compare in CBCGPColor class
• Added ‘Resize’ method to CBCGPImage class
• New “shadow” rendering mode

Push Button

• New ‘SetAutoCheck’ method
• Added a new attribute “DrawText”

Gauges

• New Switch control gauge type
• New Static Frame gauge type 
• Added new tick mark style
• Implemented ability to specify minor tick mark relative position
• New class methods allow you to specify/obtain tick mark outline brush
• Added ‘DefaultDrawFlags’ attribute to CBCGPStaticGaugeImpl class

Visual Container

• Implemented scroll bars custom color theme
• Added copying of the multiple selections (using Ctrl key and mouse dragging)

What's new in BCGControlBar Pro for MFC Version 19.0

• Now includes full support for Visual Studio 2012
• Supports Windows 8
• Implemented Office 2013-style (Windows 8 UI) manager.
• Visual Manager adapted to Visual Studio 2012 RTM look
• API updated to remove Metro UI naming, changed to WinUI

Ribbon Bar:

• Added Office-2013 like Ribbon background image support
• New Feature - Ribbon Quick Steps
• Added user tools to support Ribbon Bar
• New sorting support
• Enhanced Ribbon Designer

Visual Designer:

• Added keyboard support to enable users to move/resize gauges and diagram objects using arrow keys
• Status bar has 2 new panes, location and size

Grid Control:

• Variable row height support
• New Freeze Groups feature
• Improved grid elements margin/padding calculations

Chart Control:

• Added chart thumbnail mode
• New Data Label content type

Gauges:

• Image alignment support added
• New Opacity attribute method
• New Fill/Outline brush attributes

What's new in BCGSuite for MFC Version 18.0

• Added support for Visual Studio 2012 RC. The product was thoroughly tested under this new environment and all tests were passed.
• The product is fully tested on Windows 8 Release Preview.
• New Visual Studio 2012 RC color scheme with support for the dark theme in the editor and other controls.
• Added a new Metro style Tiles control
• Ribbon Control has MS Office 2010-like customization
• Chart Control additions: Chart Control added advanced legend.
• Chart Control additions: Show legend entries from multiple charts.
• Chart Control additions: Enhanced customization options
• Chart Control additions: Vertical and horizontal layouts.
• Chart Control additions: Automatic scrolling.
• Chart Control additions: Print and print preview support. 
• Chart Control additions: Assign textures to the chart series, walls, plot area and legend.
• Chart Control additions: New simplified printing support if the chart is created inside dialogs or forms.
• Chart Control additions: Added method CBCGPChartTheme::PrepareWallBrushes. Assigns a single brush for all 3D chart wall and floor objects, with automatic lighting/shading.
• Grid Control additions: Added active accessibility support for the grid and report controls.
• Grid Control additions: Added support for currency values.
• Grid Control additions: New options to customize inactive selection color in the grid.
• Grid Control additions: Enhanced find/replace mechanism.
• Grid Control additions: New virtual method allows you to skip some rows while navigating by keyboard in the grid.
• Graphics Manager: Added textured brushes support.
• Graphics Manager: Added new drawing methods to CBCGPGraphicsManager class: DrawCheckBox and DrawRadioButton.
• Visualization and Skins: Added skins support to CBCGPWindowsManagerDlg.
• Visualization and Skins: New class CBCGPTreeCtrl implements a tree control with the Visual Manager support.
• Visualization and Skins: Customize combobox item appearance

BCGSuite is a product that extends Visual Studio 2008 MFC functionality. Some significant library components such as Grid, Calendar and Editor are not included in the latest MFC version. BCGSuite includes these components as well as many other professionally-designed GUI controls.

BCGSuite library has more than 100 thoroughly designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes. Our components can be easily incorporated into your application and save you hundreds of development and debugging hours. Please note that BCGSuite for MFC is intended for Visual Studio 2008 with Feature Pack or later.

BCGSuite includes among others:

Grid Control

• MFC Document/View integration
• Integrated Field Chooser
• In-place cell editing
• Single and multiple row and cell selection
• Printing and Print Preview
• Filters
• Merged cells
• and more

Report Control

• MFC Document/View integration
• Auto grouping (like grouping "by conversation")
• Ability to "flag" a record
• "Group By" box
• Printing and Print Preview
• and more

Edit Control

• MFC Document/View integration
• IntelliSense® support
• Outlining (collapsible blocks) support
• Line numbering
• Syntax highlighting support
• Color blocks (block selection support)
• Markers support
• Extended (customizable) undo/redo support
• and more

Gantt Control

• MFC Document/View integration
• Unlimited time bar
• Fully-customizable appearance
• Different types of task objects such as regular tasks or milestones
• Build-in resource grid
• Zoom In / Zoom Out
• and more

Planner (Calendar) Control

• MFC Document/View integration
• Daily, work week, weekly and monthly view
• Appointment and scheduling
• Appointment reminders
• Recurring appointments
• Concurrent appointments
• Multi-resource views
• Printing and Print Preview
• and more

Advanced Controls and Dialogs

• Vista  Aero Support
• Visual Studio-style Toolbox
• Date and Time Controls
• Calculator
• Skinned Dialogs and Forms
• and more

Also included are components to provide Internet Explorer Look and feel, Custom Application Look, Ribbon, Microsoft Office XP / 2000 / 2003 / 2007 themes, Built-in roll-up buttons ( similar to CorelDraw ), Date/Time control for Toolbar, Explorer-style Toolbar, Visual Studio 2005 / 2008-style docking, MDI Tab Control and more