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BCGControlBar adds Diagram Control

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:23:00 GMT

BCGControlBar Library Professional Office demo.

Create flow, graph, network and database relationship diagrams from your MFC applications.

BCGControlBar Library Professional includes over 200 MFC extension classes for creating toolbars and menus with customization and visualization. It can be used to add Office and Visual Studio like User Interfaces to applications. The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.0

Diagram Control

Unlimited number of diagram shapes and connectors
Predefined diagram blocks, including circles, triangles, boxes, rounded boxes, parallelograms, trapezoids, stars and clouds
Table diagram blocks
Text labels inside diagram blocks
Straight and curved diagram connectors with 5 types of customizable arrows
Interactive diagram editing
Ability to save and load diagrams to/from XML
Copy diagram images to the Clipboard
Save diagram images to a file

Chart Control

Axis scale breaks - Scale breaks can be generated automatically or added manually
New Histogram chart
Two technical indicators for Stock charts - Bollinger Bands and MACD
Stock charts optimized to handle very large data sets
Support for tooltips
New method GetNearestScreenPoint calculates position for interactive markers

Property Grid Control

New property classes for brush, text format and line style compound properties
Display context menus with predefined and custom options
Display built-in toolbar with predefined commands
Display built-in search box
Property copy/paste operations
Dynamically modify the color palette

Ribbon Bar Control

Clean up unused images feature
Recent File Form for Backstage View

Tag Cloud Control

Unlimited number of tags
Alphabetical sorting
Sorting by value
Customizable text color
Customizable text format
Tooltip support

Gauges Control

New WYSIWYG design tool
Arrange gauges on a design surface and change their properties
Save your dashboard to XML and load it into a C++ application

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BCGSoft specializes in the development of business components for Microsoft Windows. BCGSoft helps developers to incorporate into their applications the most advanced component technologies available.

BCGControlBar adds Toolbar Editor.

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:04:37 GMT

BCGControlBar Library Professional Office 2007 demo.

Version 16 lets you easily create and manage application toolbars.

BCGControlBar is an MFC extension library with more than 200 well designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes such as toolbars, menus, controls as well as customization and visualization, that can be incorporated into your application to add Office like and Microsoft Visual Studio like UI. BCGControlBar Library Professional (BCGControlBar Pro MFC) offers Office 2010 look and feel, Office 2007 (Office 12) style with Ribbon control, skinned interface, Vista Aero, Gantt and more. BCGControlBar Library Professional License includes Source Code and a free one year subscription that entitles you to e-mail technical support, patches and upgrades.

Updates in V16.0

Toolbar Editor - The new utility Toolbar Editor allows you easily create and manage application toolbars. You can add toolbar buttons, create and edit toolbar button images for various color modes and screen resolutions and associate buttons with command IDs.
Chart Control has been extended with the following new 3D chart types:
- Column in 3D: "Manhattan", regular (clustered), stacked, 100% stacked, ranged.
- Surface: "regular" and "level".
- Line in 3D: regular, stacked, 100% stacked.
- Area in 3D: regular, stacked, 100% stacked, ranged.
- Bar in 3D: "Manhattan", regular (clustered), stacked, ranged and 100% stacked.
Ribbon Bar implements the following new and updated features:
- Ribbon Designer allows to update an existing image now.
- Added several methods that allow to modify the existing ribbon elements:
- The MSAA support for the Ribbon was improved.
- A ribbon button can be added to QAT as a checkbox or radio button. Call the new method CBCGPRibbonButton::SetQATType to specify if the ribbon button should appear on QAT as checkbox or radio button. If you're using Ribbon Designer, you can set this property in the button properties grid.
Grid Control implements the following new features:
- Multi-line text support for grid header items: word wrapping, understanding "\r\n" line breaks, multiline in-place editor, horizontal and vertical align, printing. Please take a look at BCGPGridExample to see this feature in action.
- Added ability to subclass the default grid header by overriding the virtual GetColumnsInfo() function.
  You can learn how to extended a grid header with two header lines and merged header items in BCGPGridExample, "Multi-Line Header" tab.
- Added ability to animate a content of a grid item - see BCGPGridExample, "Cell Types" tab.
Gauge components have the following new interactive controls:
- Knob
- Radial menu
- Rotation control
- Analog clock (in previous versions this control was implemented in example code).
- Added gauges tooltip support.
- Added interactive gauge support
Toolbars and Menus
- Menu bar Popup mode. Now the application menu can be hidden by default and shown when the user presses Alt or F10 keys (like in Interned Explorer or Windows Explorer interface). All that you need to do to enable this feature is to call CBCGPMenuBar::EnablePopupMode(TRUE). Please run a new sample PopupMenuBar to see this feature in action.
- New virtual method CBCGPToolbarButton::GetKeyboardAccelerator allows to customize the appearance of keyboard accelerator label.
- CBCGPPopupMenu has a new method: GetSafeActivePopupMenu - returns the active popup menu in the current UI thread.
- Toolbar Image editor correctly works with 32bpp toolbar images now.
Docking Panes
- CBCGPFrameWnd/CBCGPMDIFrameWnd::EnableControlBarContextMenu has a new, optional parameter 'bIncludeRebarPanes'. Setting this parameter to TRUE allows to include embedded rebar panes (such as toolbars or dialog bars) to the docking pane context menu.
- CBCGPCaptionBar has a new method 'SetMessageBarMode'. Using this method developer can switch between "message bar" (Office 2007/2010-like) and "classic" modes at run-time.
Calendar and Planner
- Added working interval support: CBCGPPlannerManagerCtrl::SetViewHourInterval and CBCGPPlannerManagerCtrl::SetPrintHourInterval method were added.
- Added ability to customize "Up"/"Down" icons

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BCGSoft Ltd. specializes in the development of business components for Microsoft Windows. Customer satisfaction is the company's first priority and as such it aims to produce top quality software. User interface programming is not always easy, but BCGSoft helps developers to incorporate into their applications the most advanced technologies available on the market today.

BCGControlBar adds new chart types

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:18:00 GMT

BCGControlBar Library Professional Office 2007 demo.

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

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition MFC is an MFC extension library with more than 200 well designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes such as toolbars, menus, controls as well as customization and visualization, that can be incorporated into your application to add Office like and Microsoft Visual Studio like UI. BCGControlBar Library Professional (BCGControlBar Pro MFC) offers Office 2010 look and feel, Office 2007 (Office 12) style with Ribbon control, skinned interface, Vista Aero, Gantt and more. BCGControlBar Library Professional License includes Source Code and a free one year subscription that entitles you to e-mail technical support, patches and upgrades.

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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BCGControlBar Professional 15.0 released

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:05:00 GMT

BCGControlBar Library Professional Office 2007 demo.

Major release adds new chart and gauge controls, D2D support, Office 2010 print preview and new editor language schemes.

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition MFC (BCGControlBar Professional) is an MFC extension library with more than 200 well designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes such as toolbars, menus, controls as well as customization and visualization, that can be incorporated into your application to add Office like and Microsoft Visual Studio like UI. BCGControlBar Library Professional (BCGControlBar Pro MFC) offers Office 2010 look and feel, Office 2007 (Office 12) style with Ribbon control, skinned interface, Vista Aero, Gantt and more. BCGControlBar Library Professional License includes Source Code and a free one year subscription that entitles you to e-mail technical support, patches and upgrades.

Updates in 15.0

New features:

New Chart Control - offers a wide range of the different chart types:

Line
Area
Bar and Column
Pie
Pyramid
Funnel
and lot of others!

New Gauge Controls - The library implements various types of gauges that help a developer to create high-quality, fast and beautiful digital dashboards. The following gauge types are implemented:

Circular Gauges.
Numeric Indicators.
Color Indicators.
Text Labels.
Image Indicators

Added D2D support. A new class 'CBCGPGraphicsManagerD2D' implements D2D backend. It exposes various methods for easy access to D2D and DirectWrite interfaces. All graphics primitives like lines, rectangles, ellipses, geometries, arcs, pies, pyramids and texts can be easily drawn with D2D speed and quality using just few lines of code. Also we added a new class 'CBCGPGraphicsManagerGDI', which can be used on OSs that do not support D2D (for example, Windows XP or Windows 2000). The base class CBCGPGraphicsManager automatically creates GDI manager if it detects an older OS (where D2D is not supported).

Office 2010-style Print Preview (inside Backstage View). 'CBCGPRibbonBackstageViewPanel:: AddPrintPreview ' method has been added.

New Editor language schemes - Outline parser customization was extended. Added new Lexeme::m_dwData, BlockType::m_dwData members. Extended LexemType enumerator. BCGPVisualStudioGUIDemo example demonstrates how to implement the following schemes using new mechanism:

C++
HTML
BASIC
Pascal
C#
Assembler
XML
SQL

Added drop-down galleries - New class CBCGPRibbonComboGalleryCtrl allows to create drop-down galleries on dialogs in ribbon-based applications.

The ribbon bar is integrated with VS 2010 Ribbon Editor: call new method 'CBCGPRibbonBar:: LoadFromVSRibbon' to load ribbon bar form RT_RIBBON resource.

Added description to CBCGPButton: CBCGPButton::SetDescription/ CBCGPButton::GetDescription methods have been added.

CBCGPRibbonPanel: added SetName method.

CBCGPRibbonStatusBarPane constructor has a new, optional parameter 'bAlphaBlendIcon'. Set it TRUE if 32-bit icon is being added to the status bar pane.

Grid changes:
The class CBCGPGridItemID has new state {m_nRow = -2, m_nColumn = -2} which indicates the selection of the whole content. New methods: CBCGPGridItemID::SetAll, CBCGPGridItemID::IsAll. CBCGPGridItemID::IsNull was modified.

CBCGPGridItem::Init and CBCGPGridItem::SetFlags are now virtual.
Added CBCGPGridCtrl::IsColumnBeingResized function.
Added option to disable quick sorting. To return to the previous ("bubble") sorting implementation please use new CBCGPGridCtrl::m_bUseQuickSort member.
Added CBCGPGridCtrl::NormalizeSelectionList, CBCGPGridCtrl::RemoveSelectedRows, CBCGPGridCtrl::Delete, CBCGPGridCtrl::IsDeleteEnabled functions.
Added mechanism to customize colors alternating. Please override virtual BOOL OnAlternateColor (const CBCGPGridItemID& id) to specify if an item has odd or even color.
Improved performance of the grid with many columns. Changed implementation of CBCGPGridColumnsInfo class, changed the internal column's container.

Changes in Examples and Samples:

Added a new example BCGPChartExample that demonstrates Chart features.
Added a new example BCGPGaugesDemo that demonstrates Gauges features.
Added a new sample 'RibbonMenuSwitch' - this sample demonstrates how to switch between Ribbon and Menu/Toolbar mode at run-time.
BCGPGridExample has been updated to illustrate how to create a Chart within a merged cell.
SideBarDemo now illustrates how to add a circular gauge (clock) and chart (weather forecast) to Side Bar.

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BCGControlBar improves VS2010 appearance

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:14:00 GMT

An Office 2007 style ribbon bar showing font styles.

Version 12.1 improves Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010-style appearance by adapting to the final product look.

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition is an MFC extension library with more than 200 well designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes such as toolbars, menus, controls as well as customization and visualization, that can be incorporated into your application to add Office like and Microsoft Visual Studio like UI. BCGControlBar Pro MFC offers Office 2010 look and feel, Office 2007 (Office 12) style with Ribbon control, skinned interface, Vista Aero, Gantt and more. BCGControlBar Library Professional License includes Source Code and a free one year subscription that entitles you to e-mail technical support, patches and upgrades.

Updates in V12.1

Added support for the Office 2010-style Ribbon Backstage View in the Ribbon Designer
The Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010-style appearance were improved by adapting to the final product look.
Grid Control changes: Added "Filter Bar" feature
CBCGPRibbonComboBox has an auto-complete mode now
Added support for the "search" mode to CBCGPEdit control

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BCGControlBar Professional V12 released

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:19:00 GMT

An Office 2007 style ribbon bar showing font styles.

Latest release adds Microsoft Office 2010-style Ribbon backstage view and support for resizable dialogs.

BCGControlBar Library Professional Edition MFC (BCGControlBar Professional) is an MFC extension library with more than 200 well designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes such as toolbars, menus, controls as well as customization and visualization, that can be incorporated into your application to add Office like and Microsoft Visual Studio like UI. BCGControlBar Professional offers Office 2010 beta look and feel, Office 2007 (Office 12) style with Ribbon control, skinned interface, Vista Aero, Gantt and more. The BCGControlBar Library Professional license includes Source code and a free one year subscription that entitles you to e-mail technical support, patches and upgrades.

Updates in V12

CBCGPVisualManager2010 implements Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1 color themes
Added Microsoft Office 2010-style Ribbon Backstage View
The Ribbon bar Application ("main") Button can display a text label instead of icon in the "scenic" mode (usually "File" in English language UI).
Implemented ability to add Ribbon Galleries to the dialogs
Implemented Resizable Dialogs support
Significantly improved CBCGPVisualManagerVS2010
Calculator control has been significantly improved

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