Controls for Visual C++ MFC：provides Windows developers with several ready-to-use components that have been thoroughly designed and tested

Controls for Visual C++ MFC

Controls for Visual C++ MFC provides Windows developers with several ready-to-use components that have been thoroughly designed and tested.

Features Overview

Codejock Controls for Visual C++ MFC provides several options to choose from including Buttons, Combo Box, Common Dialogs, Progress Bars, Edit Controls, Alert Popup Widows, Themed Scroll Bars, Tab Controls, Shell Controls, XAML Markup Support, Taskbar Manager and much more! Controls is included with the Toolkit Pro for Visual C++ MFC evaluation.

⑴ Buttons

Color Picker

The Color Picker Button can be placed anywhere a normal button control can be placed and has several features including options for standard and extended color selection, automatic or fill color button, hex display, and an extended color selection dialog.

The Color Picker Button is shown with a default theme and the Visual Studio Dark theme. The standard colors and more colors sections can be disabled or enabled, as well as the no fill section.

Themed

The themed button styles are great for displaying graphics and have several display options available.  You can choose from flat, semi-flat or 3D style buttons, turn on or off focus display, center images and text or highlight the button when the item is selected.

⑵ Combo Box

Auto-complete

Using Auto Complete will cause the combo box to suggest an item as you type from the combo box's list of items. The suggestion will get more accurate as more characters are typed. This allows users to easily find items within the combo box without having to scroll through the list of items.

In the picture below, “Seg” was typed

Font Selection

The Font Selection Combo displays a drop list of fonts and visually displays their appearance to the user.  The control works the way a normal combo box would work and easily allows you to define the font at startup and retrieve user selections.

* This control is available for MFC only as a dedicated control, COM must use Command Bar galleries.

Themed

Several of the most popular themes can be applied to the combo box control included with Codejock Controls.

In the picture below, the "Office 2010 Silver" theme is used:

⑶ Dialogs

Tip of the Day

The Visual Studio style Tip of the Day Dialog is a quick and easy way for you to include a tip of the day in your application.  The control reads a simple tips.txt file that you create and display messages to your end users and stores its settings in your systems registry or .ini file.

Browse for Directory

The Browse for Folder Dialog conveniently wraps the ‘BrowseForFolder’ API which allows you to display the browse dialog with a single line of code.  You can quickly and easily display the startup directory and retrieve the user selection.

Resizable Layout Manager

The Resizable Layout Manager classes found in Controls allow you to easily create flicker free resizing Dialogs, Form Views, and Property Sheets.  You can quickly assign how to move and resize each control located on your dialog template with a single line of code.

Keyboard Shortcut Manager Resizing Property Sheet

MDI Windows List Manager

The MDI Windows Manager provides an easy way for you to manage your applications open documents. The manager allows you to select all or some of your open documents to easily manage them at runtime.

Search Options

The Search Options class is similar to the Search Options item found in the search pane of Windows Explorer as it is seen in MS Windows. This class allows you to associate a group of controls to be hidden or displayed when the Search Options item is expanded and contracted. You can use this to group and organize controls so that they are easy to find and at the same time can be hidden if no longer needed.

Color Selection

The Office Style Color Selection Dialog has several features including options for standard and extended color selection, automatic or fill color buttons, hex display, and an extended color selection dialog.

Standard Color Page

Custom Color Page

⑷ Edit

Browse Edit

The Browse Edit Control allows you to display a standard edit control with a browse button associated with it.  Easily browse for files or folders by simply changing the object type. You can even associate a popup menu with the browse button. This dedicated browse edit is only available in MFC, however the same can be accomplished in COM using an edit control as a "buddy control" to a button.

Hex Edit

The Hex Edit Control allows you to display and edit hex data visually.  You can easily retrieve data selection and define display styles. Works great with the Controls masked edit control to display hex data.

Masked Edit

The Masked Edit Control allows you to define a display and edit mask for the control.  Easily create your own mask style for date, telephone, or any edit display.  You can restrict the use of certain characters and define a default string that is displayed.

Edit List Box

The Edit List Box Control provides a Visual Studio style edit list box that allows you to display a list of editable items. When an item in the list is double-clicked an edit box appears allowing the text to be edited, you also have the option of displaying a "..." button on the end of the edit box. The edit list comes with a built-in control panel that allows items to be navigated, added, and deleted.

Edit Control Themes

Several of the most popular themes can be applied to the edit control included with Codejock Controls.

⑸ Progress Bars

Themed Progress Bars

The ProgressBar control shows the progress of a lengthy operation by filling a rectangle with chunks from left to right. Many of the most popular themes such as Office are supported.

⑹ Messenger Style Popup

Theme Support

Control's popup control provides several built in themes that are ready to use. You can choose from one of the predefined themes or create your own.

Custom Codejock Theme

MSN Theme

Custom Image Support

Office Theme

Custom Tooltip Theme

Animation Types

Control's popup control allows you to configure how your popup window will be displayed using animation effects. You can easily choose from one of several predefined effects that include Unfold, Slide, Fade, and None.

Fade Animation

Unfold Animation

Slide Animation

Transparency and Hyperlinks

Control's popup control allows you to configure the transparency level of your popup window. You can easily add a hyperlink to your popup window.  When you move the mouse cursor over text that is a hyperlink, the text will become underlined indicating that you will be redirected to another window or website when clicked on. And the window will become opaque again when the mouse is over the window.

Window Transparency

No Transparency

50% Transparency

Hyperlink Support

Animation Delay and Speed

Controls popup control allows you to easily configure the amount of time the popup window is displayed and the amount of time it takes to complete the animation when opening and closing your popup windows. You can configure the window to open and close as long or as short as you like.

Animation Delay

Short Delay

Long Delay

Animation Speed

Normal Speed

Fast Speed

⑺ Task Dialog

Windows Style Task Dialog

The Task Dialog Control creates, displays, and operates a task dialog. A task dialog is similar to, while much more flexible than, a basic message box. The task dialog contains application-defined messages, title, verification check box, command links and push buttons, plus any combination of predefined icons and push buttons.

⑻ Scroll Bars

Themed Scroll Bars

Scroll bars provide easy navigation through a long list of items or a large amount of information. Many of the most popular themes such as Office are supported.

⑼ Tab Control

Excel Style

The Excel style Flat Tab Control is an excellent way to display several windows using a tab style interface. There are several features available including home, end, back, and forward buttons. Easily add list style or any control for display of output or data.

MDI Windows

The MDI Tabbed Interface control allows you to display a tabbed MDI interface with your application.  This control allows you to set the tab direction and can be included in your application with a single line of code.  You can easily turn on and off this feature programmatically.

MDI Tab View

The MDI Tab View Control allows you to define a multiple view document.  You can easily add and remove views or controls to the tab of this CView derived class.  Great for displaying several different views simultaneously.

Enhanced Tab Control

The Enhanced Tab Control provides advanced features such as auto condensing tabs, tab icons and Visual Studio .NET style themes.  You can easily change the tab control's style during runtime to provide greater control and ease of use.

Tab Control Themes

The Tab Control provides several of the most popular themes which include Visual Studio .NET, Office, Windows, and many more! The themes are already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.

⑽ Tag Cloud

Tag Cloud

The Tag Cloud class allows you to create a tag cloud filled with relevant keywords or tags. Items can be scored for importance, which can be used to affect their font weight or color. Tags can be sorted by score or name, ascending or descending. Custom background colors are available, and so are text colors, font and size for each available score. Tag Cloud supports tooltips.

An example of the tag cloud as seen in the tag cloud sample.

⑾ Drawing

Flicker free drawing/Animation

Controls provides flicker free drawing and animation by extending the CDC which helps eliminate screen flicker when windows are resized, by painting to an off screen bitmap. Several handy methods are included for animating any CWind or owner drawn objects. Some of the animation types include Unfold, Slide, Fade, Noise, Stretch, and Circles.

* These methods are available for MFC only.

⑿ Windows Shell

Explorer List and Tree

The Windows Shell List and Tree allow you to create Windows Explorer list and tree control that you can easily add to your application's workspace. Easily browse and manage your file system using the explorer list and tree controls.

Tray Icon

The System Tray Icon Control allows you to quickly and easily add your application's icon to the system tray. You can easily define popup menus, balloon tips and even animation to your displayed icons.  Easily minimize to and maximize from the system tray and much more!

Shell Icon Popup Window

Shell Icon Popup Menu

⒀ Markup Support

XAML Markup Support

Most controls allows you to use XAML to format the contents of the control. Codejock ships an XAML editor utility to help you make XAML snippets to place in the controls.

⒁ Taskbar Manager

Taskbar Manager Control

The Taskbar Manager control allows you to add an overlay icon, progress bar, and jump list to the task bar button for your application while using Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Overlay Icons

Progress Indicator

Jump List