BCGSuite for MFC v31.2

Improves Chart, Diagram and Gauge controls.

Features

• Chart Control
  • Improved chart thumbnails:
    • Added thumbnail mode for advanced Chart legend.
    • Developer can now specify a scaling ratio for all text labels in chart thumbnails.
    • Improved thumbnail appearance in Torus, Scatter and Ternary charts.
  • 3D charts walls drawing:
    • Added the ability to enable/disable wall jointing.
    • Improved wall appearance (both in thin and thick modes).
• Gauge Controls
  • CBCGPKnob: added disabled knob control drawing.
  • CBCGPCircularGaugeImpl: improved interactive mode - the pointer cannot be moved out of scale bounds anymore.
  • CBCGPNumericIndicatorImpl has the following additions:
    • Invisible segments drawing.
    • Indicator state. A state can be Normal, Error or Off.
    • Internal padding.
    • Horizontal and vertical alignment.
• Diagram Control
  • Added the ability to prevent diagram font (text format) scaling when the diagram is being scaled.
  • Improved diagram appearance: a regular font is now used as a default.
• Controls
  • CBCGPTabWnd: added tab icon location.
  • CBCGPComboBox: added CComboBoxEx-like icon displayed left of the edit box.
  • CBCGPEdit: new method EnableIconOnLeft allows you to display an icon on the left side of control.
  • CBCGPSliderCtrl has the following additions and improvements:
    • New method allows you to change the thumb position to the clicked location when user clicks the channel.
    • New method allows you to swap minimal and maximal range values.
• Graphics Manager
  • CBCGPGraphicsManager: improved geometries scaling.
  • CBCGPImage: constructors with HICON and HBITMAP have a new optional parameter "bAutoDestroy" (FALSE by default). If this parameter is TRUE, icon/bitmap will be automatically destroyed in CBCGPImage destructor.
• Miscellaneous
  • Implemented Microsoft Windows 10 light/dark modes support:
  • Added new registered message BCGM_ONGLOBALFONTSCHANGED: sent to the main application window when global fonts (like globalData.fontRegular) are updated.
  • A global method BCGPTrackMouse is now exportable.
  • CBCGPToolBarImages: added new global member "m_bAlwaysCreateShadowImage" (default is FALSE). If this member is TRUE, the shadow image is created in all visual themes.
  • CBCGPHotSpotImageCtrl: added support for tooltips specified in SVG files ("title" and "desc" attributes).
  • CBCGPBreadcrumb::SelectSubPath: added new optional parameter "delimiter" ('\' by default).
  • CBCGPToolTipParams: added new flag "m_bHideDuplicatedDescription" (FALSE by default). If this flag is TRUE and tooltip name is the same as description, only name will be displayed in tooltip.
  • A new helper class CBCGPPostRedraw simplifies implementation of flicker-less controls.
  • CBCGPDrawManager: added a new method DrawEdge. This method is very similar to CDC::DrawEdge, but edge is rendered using current theme colors and can be drawn on DWM window area.
  • CBCGPSVGBase: added support for "title" and "desc" SVG node attributes; GetName and GetDescription methods were added.
  • Shell manager: added custom ("Quick access") folder support.
  • Added new virtual method CBCGPGridCtrl::OnKeepGroupWithChildrenOnNewPrintPage which specifies whether a grid group should be printed from the new page.