BCGControlBar Pro for MFC

What is BCGControlBar Pro for MFC?

BCGControlBar ("Business Components Gallery ControlBar") is an MFC extension library that allows you to create Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio-like applications with full customization options (ribbons, customizable toolbars, menus, and more) and a rich set of professionally-designed GUI controls such as chart, calendar, grid, editor, Gantt, and many others.

BCGControlBar library has more than 500 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.

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Microsoft Office-style Ribbon Bar

Identical look and feel to the Microsoft Office Ribbon Bar
Office 2007-2022 visual themes
Windows-like ("scenic") theme
More than 20 types of ready-to-use controls
Advanced WYSIWYG Ribbon Designer
Ribbon Backstage View with built-in and custom pages
Classic and simplified modes
Customization of ribbon controls, Quick Access toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts
Touch and mouse input modes
Built-in Ribbon commands search
Ribbon mini-toolbar and context menus

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Visual Themes

More than 40 built-in visual themes
Microsoft Office 2000-2022 look
Visual Studio 6.0-2022 look
Native Windows theme
Windows 10 or later accent color support
Windows 7 or later DWM (such as "aero" or "mica") support
High-contrast modes support
Custom visual themes

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Visual Studio-like Docking Panes

The advanced docking algorithms allow you to set up the docking windows as you like
Docking to an application window and MDI children
Autohide mode
Tabbed docking panes
Floating panes
Docking pane containers
Visual Studio-like docking markers
Persistent docking pane layout

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Chart control

30+ 2D and 3D chart types
Unlimited number of series
Unlimited number of data points in series
Ability to display different series types on the same chart area
Realtime charting
History modes
Data points have customizable appearances (markers, labels, and colors)
Smart labels support
Data binding

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Customizable Toolbars and Menus

Microsoft Office and Visual Studio-like customization
Persistent toolbars and menu customization state
User-defined toolbars, menus, labels, and icons
Keyboard shortcuts customization
User-defined external tools customization
Built-in toolbar icon editor

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Calendar (Planner) control

Microsoft Outlook style
Daily, work week, weekly, monthly, and schedule views
Appointment and scheduling
Appointment reminders
Recurring appointments
Concurrent appointments
Multiple resources support
Multi-Day and All Day Events

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Grid and Report controls

Various cell types: text, numeric, combo box, date/time, color picker, check box, and others
Sparkline cells
Custom-type cells
Virtual mode
Hierarchical grids
Rows grouping
Built-in field chooser
Filters
Merged cells
Frozen rows and columns
Conditional formatting: data bars, color scales. and icon sets
Data binding

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Advanced Edit control

Visual Studio-like code editor
Syntax highlighting support
XML-based schemas for the language definition
Outlining (collapsible blocks) support
IntelliSense support
Color blocks (block selection support)
Line numbering
Markers support
Error indication support

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Gauges

There are various types of gauges that allow the developer to create digital dashboards
Circular gauges
Linear gauges
Text, image, and color indicators
Digital numeric indicators
Knob and switch controls
Circular progress indicator
Analog clock and digital watch
Gauges visual container with layout support
"State of the art" visual effects such as shadow or glow
WYSIWYG Visual Designer for Gauges

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Diagrams

Unlimited number of diagram shapes and connectors
Various predefined diagram blocks
Table diagram blocks
Smart straight and curved diagram connectors with 5 types of customizable arrows
Zoom In/Zoom Out support
Ability to save and load diagrams to/from XML

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Windows UI Tiles

Windows 8/10-like tiles control: suitable for a wide range of UIs like application start page, activity monitor and many others.
Large, regular, and wide tiles
Tile groups
Rectangular or rounded tile shapes
Built-in caption with navigation and custom buttons
Horizontal and vertical layouts
Live tiles

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Skinned Dialogs and Forms

Fully-themed dialog content, borders, and caption
Auto-theming of all dialog controls
DWM ("aero" or "mica") support
DPI-awareness (the dialogs are automatically scaled when you are moving them to monitor with other DPI)
Built-in layout for resizable dialogs
Lightbox (Windows 11 smoke-like) dialogs
Dialogs with expandable areas
Themed property sheets and wizards

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Visual Designer

Allows you to create top-quality digital dashboards and diagrams using the new WYSIWYG design tool in minutes
Supports all our gauges, diagram shapes, charts, and grid controls
Allows you to add a custom gauge or control
XML data format

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Visual Studio Integration

Our Integration Wizard sets up VC++ directories and builds all required libraries and DLLs
BCGControlBar AppWizard allows you to create Microsoft Office or Visual Studio-style applications in seconds. The most popular components of the library persist as the options of AppWizard

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