Visualization Manager

Visualization manager provides the functionality, that allows you to control look and feel of an application. It centralizes the drawing code for the most important GUI elements, such as toolbars, buttons, grippers and menus. User can switch between different screen themes at runtime. To create your own visualization manager, you need to create a new class derived from CBCGPVisualManager and implement the required drawing methods:

• Ability to create and change at run-time application skins
• Ability to implement your own skin
• Ability to switch between default and custom visual managers

The following visualization managers are built-in:

CBCGPVisualManager	Office 2000/VC++ 6.0 look
CBCGPVisualManagerXP	Office XP/VS.NET look
CBCGPVisualManager2003	Office 2003 look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2005	VS 2005 look
CBCGPWinXPVisualManager	Native Windows look
CBCGPVisualManager2007	Office 2007 look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2008	VS 2008 look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2010	VS 2010 look
CBCGPVisualManager2010	Office 2010 look
CBCGPVisualManagerCarbon	"Carbon" look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2012	VS 2012 look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2013	VS 2013-2017 look
CBCGPVisualManagerVS2019	VS 2019-2022 look
CBCGPVisualManager2013	Office 2013 look
CBCGPVisualManager2016	Office 2016 look
CBCGPVisualManager2019	Office 2019 look
CBCGPVisualManager2022	Office 2022/365 look

Sample code:

class CMyManager : public CBCGVisualManager 
{
	DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CMyManager)
	.....
 
	virtual void OnDrawBarGripper(
		CDC* pDC,  CRect rectGripper, 
		BOOL bHorz,  CControlBar* pBar);
}; 
 
IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE(CBCGVisualManager)
 
void CMyManager::OnDrawBarGripper(
	CDC* pDC,  CRect rectGripper, 
	BOOL bHorz, CControlBar* pBar)
{
	// TODO: draw bar gripper
}
 
// Activate visual manager:
CBCGVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(
	RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyManager));

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