New features

1. We're proud to announce a new Visual Manager - CBCGPVisualManager2010, which implements the new Microsoft Office 2010 TP white theme ! The main benefits of this theme are:
   • Ribbon "Aero" tabs
   • Ribbon "Minimize" button
   • Flat panels and groups
   • Colorized application ("main") button

   To use this new theme in your application just activate CBCGPVisualManager2010:
   CBCGPVisualManager::SetDefaultManager (RUNTIME_CLASS (CBCGPVisualManager2010)); Please run BCGPMSOffice2007Demo or BCGPOrganizer to see this feature in action.

2. Added a new class CBCGPVisualManagerVS2010, which implements Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 look . You can run BCGPVisualStudioGUIDemo example to examine this new fresh look!
3. Added Windows 7 Taskbar Interaction for MDI applications :
   • CBCGPWorkspace has the following new methods:
     1. EnableTaskBarInteraction
     2. IsTaskBarInteractionEnabled
   • CBCGPMDIFrameWnd has the following new methods:
     1. RegisterAllMDIChildrenWithTaskbar
     2. GetRegisteredWithTaskBarMDIChildCount
   • CBCGPMDIChildWnd has the following new methods:
     1. RegisterTaskbarTab
     2. IsRegisteredWithTaskbarTabs
     3. UnregisterTaskbarTab

   Please run BCGPVisualStudioGUIDemo or DrawCli examples to see this feature in action.

4. Significantly improved Windows 7-style Ribbon presentation . Please activate CBCGPVisualManagerScenic and see that the Ribbon bar is fully-identical to the native Windows 7 Ribbon!
5. Added ability to search the Ribbon commands "on the fly" ! You can easily add the command search to the Ribbon Main panel and user can find and invoke the required command in seconds, without looking through all ribbon tabs. CBCGPRibbonMainPanel has a new method EnableCommandSearch. In addition, a developer can use the search box separately: CBCGPRibbonEdit has new methods - EnableSearchMode, IsSearchMode and GetSearchPrompt.
6. Added Vista-style Breadcrumb control . Please take a look at BCGPControls ("Shell Controls" page) and BCGPMediaPlayer examples to see this control in action and learn how to add it to your application. New classes CBCGPBreadcrumb and CBCGPShellBreadcrumb implement this control. The following new methods have been added to CBCGPVisualManager class:
   • BreadcrumbFillBackground
   • BreadcrumbDrawItemBackground
   • BreadcrumbDrawItem
   • BreadcrumbDrawArrowBackground
   • BreadcrumbDrawArrow
   • BreadcrumbDrawLeftArrowBackground
   • BreadcrumbDrawLeftArrow
7. Improvements in Ribbon Designer:
   • Ability to add elements from Toolbox by double click.
   • The following elements were added to Toolbox:
     • Context
     • Search edit control
     • Search combo box control
   • Added Windows 7 and Office 2010 application looks.
   • Added ability to preview the generated XML file.
   • Implemented Cut, Copy, Paste and Drag & Drop operations for the Context Categories.
   • Added ability to load, save, and edit Search Box for Main Category.
   • Added ability to load, save, and edit strings for edit boxes.
   • Added ability to load and save icons and groups for Palettes (Galleries).
   • Added ability to load, save, and edit Automatic & Other buttons for Color buttons.
   • Implemented loading of project files created by Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.
8. Added hyperlinks and custom background/text colors to CBCGPCaptionBar .
9. Added Office 2010-style Ribbon minimize button . CBCGPRibbonBar has 2 new methods: EnableMinimizeButton and HasMinimizeButton.
10. Method CBCGPToolBar:: RebuildAccelerationKeys is virtual now.
11. Added CBCGPBaseRibbonElement::GetElementsByName method: this method returns a list of ribbon elements that match the given name.
12. globalData.m_nShellAutohideBars has been replaced with the access method globalData.GetShellAutohideBars().
13. Although the Carbon theme was designed for toolbar/menu-based application, we decided to improve the the Ribbon presentation in CBCGPVisualManagerCarbon theme too.
14. CBCGPRibbonComboBox class has a new method InsertItem.
15. Middle mouse button click on MDI Tab closes the corresponding MDI child window now (like in VS 2005/2008).

Fixes:

1. Added horizontal scrolling to the command list box in CBCGPKeyboardPage.
2. Fixed some drawing problems in CBCGPButton: when check box has BS_TOP or BS_BOTTOM style, the text is correctly positioned now.
3. CBCGPReBar passes MS Active Accessibility events to the child panes now.
4. When CBCGPMessageBox is being loaded, the standard Windows message beep is appear (this behavior is similar to the standard message box)
5. Fixed problem with a keyboard navigation when CBCGPRibbonSlider is a vertically-oriented (in the previous versions, UP/DOWN keys moved slider in the opposite direction).
6. Resolved resource leak in CBCGPOutlookBarPane::AddButton. In the previous versions, the resource wasn't freed properly in case of 32 bit icons.
7. Fixed problem with scrolling CBCGPCalendar and CBCGPDateTimeCtrl dates outside the allowed year range (between 100 and 9999).
8. Fixes in Ribbon Designer:
   • Loading projects for Visual Studio 2008 (path to resource files couldn't be found).
   • Incorrect message about missing MainFrm.cpp during project loading.
   • Wrong icon for Spin Edit in Elements tree.