Ribbon Mini Toolbar ("Floaty")

The Microsoft Office-style mini toolbar ("Floaty") is a semi-transparent toolbar appearing right near the cursor and containing "hot" commands relevant to the current context. In addition, a mini toolbar can be used along with a context menu.

User selected a text and semi-transparent toolbar has appeared:

Toolbar became visible when user hovers the cursor over toolbar:

Mini toolbar with the context menu:

Sample code:

void CMyView::OnLButtonUp(UINT nFlags, CPoint pt)
{
	// Create a floaty:
	CBCGPRibbonFloaty* pFloaty = 
		new CBCGPRibbonFloaty;

	// Initialize commands list:
	CList<UINT, UINT> lstCmds;

	lstCmds.AddTail (ID_FONT_FONT);
	.....

	pFloaty->SetCommands (pRibbonBar, lstCmds);

	// Display floaty near the cursor:
	ClientToScreen (&pt);
	pFloaty->Show (pt.x, pt.y);
}

void CMyView::OnContextMenu(CWnd* pWnd, CPoint pt) 
{
	// Create a floaty:
	CBCGPRibbonFloaty* pFloaty = 
		new CBCGPRibbonFloaty;

	// Initialize commands list:
	CList<UINT, UINT> lstCmds;

	lstCmds.AddTail (ID_FONT_FONT);
	.....

	pFloaty->SetCommands (pRibbonBar, lstCmds);

	// Show floaty with a context menu:
	pFloaty->ShowWithContextMenu(
		pt.x, pt.y, IDR_CONTEXT_MENU, this);
}

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