Office XP look & feel controls

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Introduction

Yet another owner drawn toolbar. This one has the Office XP look & feel. Have a look to the source code (ToolbarXP.h and ToolbarXP.cpp) for more details. Some parts of code are copied from other articles. Thanks to their authors!

How to use the CToolBarXP class

Include the ToolbarXP.h file and just replace the CToolBar m_wndToolBar declaration in your files by CToolBarXP m_wndToolBar. That's all ! (see the demo)

Other classes

CButtonXP, CListBoxXP, CComboBoxXP: Flat controls with "mouseover" and "mouseout" effects.
CStatusBarXP: Flat statusbar.
CPopup: Allow any control to be popped over frame (as shown in the image).
CWindowsManagerDlg: MDI child window manager.

CBufferDC: An easy-to-use class to simplify the bufferized drawing.

Example: Replace in your code:

void CToolBarXP::OnPaint ()
{
    CPaintDC cDC (this);

    cDC.FillSolidRect (CRect(10,10,100,100), 255);
    cDC.MoveTo (10, 10);
    cDC.LineTO (100, 100);
    // Etc...

}

by:

void CToolBarXP::OnPaint ()
{
    CPaintDC cpDC (this); // Modified line

    CBufferDC cDC (cpDC); // Added line


    cDC.FillSolidRect (CRect(10,10,100,100), 255);
    cDC.MoveTo (10, 10);
    cDC.LineTO (100, 100);
    // Etc...

}

And it works too with any HDC (see the CButtonXP::DrawItem method for another exemple).
The only constraint: you have to do all drawing with the same CBufferDC instance. You cannot have a first part in the OnEraseBkgnd and another one in the OnPaint.

CPenDC and CBrushDC: Simplify the use of local CPen and CBrush objects.

Without those classes:

    // ...

    CPen pen (PS_SOLID, 1, RGB(0,0,255));
    CBrush brush (RGB(0,255,0));
    CPen* pOldPen = cDC.SelectObject (&pen);
    CBrush* pOldBrush = cDC.SelectObject (&brush);
    cDC.Rectangle (10,10,100,100);
    cDC.SelectObject (pOldPen);
    cDC.SelectObject (pOldBrush);
    // ...

With them:

    // ...

    CPenDC pen (cDC, RGB(0,0,255));
    CBrushDC brush (cDC, RGB(0,255,0));
    cDC.Rectangle (10,10,100,100);
    // ...

CClientRect and CWindowRect: Encapsulate GetClientRect and GetWindowRect calls.

Without:

    // ...

    CRect rcClient;
    GetClientRect (rcClient);
    cDC.FillSolidRect (rcClient, 255);
    // ...

With:

    // ...

    cDC.FillSolidRect (CClientRect (this), 255);
    // ...

CWindowText: Encapsulate GetWindowText calls.

Without:

    // ...

    CString sText;
    GetWindowText (sText);
    CDC.DrawText (sText, rc, DT_SINGLELINE|DT_CENTER|DT_VCENTER);
    // ...

With:

    // ...

    cDC.DrawText (CWindowText (this), rc, DT_SINGLELINE|DT_CENTER|DT_VCENTER);
    // ...

Credit

Thanks to Christian Rodemeyer for his RGB<->HLS conversion methods from the article CColor - RGB and HLS combined in one class.

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Found a way to display 24 bit images in CMenuXP, if anyone is interested Axiom666 16:10 15 Mar '06   The problem is in CImage list, if you create it in this way, you will be able to use 24 bit images. //////// CImageList m_icons; CBitmap bit, mask; bit.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP2);//IDB_BITMAP2 is 24 bit image mask.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP3); //IDB_BITMAP3 is 1 bit image m_icons.Create(16,16,ILC_MASK | ILC_COLOR24,0,3); m_icons.Add(&bit, &mask); m_icons.Create(IDB_BITMAP1, 16, 0, RGB(255,0,255)); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_NEW, m_icons m_hImageList, 0); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_OPEN, m_icons.m_hImageList, 1); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_SAVEAS, m_icons.m_hImageList,2); ////////////// Axiom One of many... Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 (2 votes) Re: Found a way to display 24 bit images in CMenuXP, if anyone is interested Axiom666 7:54 20 Mar '06   ///////////////////// CBitmap bit, mask; bit.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP2); mask.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP3); m_icons.Create(16,16,ILC_MASK | ILC_COLOR24,0,3); m_icons.Add(&bit, &mask); CMenuXP::SetXPLookNFeel(this); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_NEW, m_icons.m_hImageList, 0); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_OPEN, m_icons.m_hImageList, 1); CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage(ID_SAVEAS, m_icons.m_hImageList,2); ////////////////////////////////// It works for me Axiom One of many... Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink SetButtonText sujee 3:07 8 Oct '04   In My toolbar buttons the text label didn't showing.BMP shoawing with no probs instead the alignment.. Is there any way to shaow the label.. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 3.00/5 (3 votes) ? CMenuXP::OnMeasureItem ? Frank Lagattuta 18:32 24 Sep '04   Can you please explain implementation of CMenuXP::OnMeasureItem()? I don't understand how it is deciding to calculate the width. What does the LOBYTE of the LOWORD of the MEASUREITEMSTRUCT::itemData member represent? Any help is greatly appreciated. -Frank Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Office XP Style Edit Control Jigar Mehta 23:58 23 Jun '04   Hye, Have anybody developed XP style, edit control??? If yes please share it... Jigar Mehta (jigarmehta@gatescorp.com) Software Developer Gates Information Systems Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Office XP style task pane Seshagiri 0:25 7 Apr '04   hi, I am trying to create an office XP kind of task pane (select view->task pane in wordXP or excelXP). It seems to me that they use an undocumented class called msoCommandBar. I am using vc++ 6.0... could you please give some pointers on how to go ahead. I have posted a screen shot at http://www.seshagiri.8m.com/cgi-bin/i/taskpane.jpg to show what I want to create. I have tried deriving from the CCommandBar...but am not making much progress. Please help. thanks Seshagiri Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 (1 vote) Windows XP style vs Office XP style Marco van der Kolk 23:51 1 Oct '03   Hi, When running my application under Windows XP with Windows XP-style theming enabled, I'd like to show the XP theme. Actually this can be done easily by calling Default() in the OnDrawItem() member functions. But how can I determine when the XP theme is on? Even better, I'd like to be able to switch between the default Windows look&feel and the OfficeXP look&feel as made available by this article dynamically, defaulting to OfficeXP look when XP theming is off. Would that be possible? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.50/5 (2 votes) Exception in Draw.cpp Jaime Stuardo 16:51 31 Aug '03   Hello.. This is a strange problem. I have Windows XP and Visual C++ 6.0. I have used the XP look controls for my application. I run it in debug mode and then wait some time without doing anything with the application. Suddenly debug view shows the following exception message: Second Chance Assertion Failed: File I:\Common Classes\XP_Look\Draw.cpp, Line 163 and the application crashes, showing the dissablembled view (with the cursor on instrucction int 3) to debug the application. Line 163 contains the following: VERIFY(::BitBlt (m_hDestDC, m_rect.left, m_rect.top, m_rect.Width(), m_rect.Height(), m_hDC, m_rect.left, m_rect.top, SRCCOPY)); What may be causing VERITY macro to assert? Thanks Jaime Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 3.33/5 (3 votes) Re: Exception in Draw.cpp agfirehead 20:02 14 Sep '03   I was having the same problem in that as soon as the screen saver would kick in it would crash. This is because one of the DC handles becomes invalid (I believe it's m_hDestDC), thus BitBlt returns false and the program ASSERTS. I took the VERIFY away, and at first glance it seems to be working fine. You can use the following code to get the error returned by BitBlt (note that it uses GetLastError): LPVOID lpMsgBuf; if (!FormatMessage( FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS, NULL, GetLastError(), MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language (LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf, 0, NULL )) { // Handle the error. return; } // Process any inserts in lpMsgBuf. // ... // Display the string. MessageBox( NULL, (LPCTSTR)lpMsgBuf, "Error", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION ); // Free the buffer. LocalFree( lpMsgBuf ); Hope this helps. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.50/5 (2 votes) Loading and saving toolbar position Arthurit 0:03 19 Jul '03   Dear Jean-Michel, Each time the toolbar from your demo project changes position, when restarting again the application it mantains the last toolbar position. I thought that it could be accomplished by using the LoadState and SaveState member functions of CToolBar. However, I didn't find such thing in your code. Could you please tell me how you did that? Cheers, Arthurit Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Loading and saving toolbar position Jean-Michel LE FOL 9:27 20 Jul '03   Look at the CMainFrame class, I call LoadBarState and SaveBarState methods defined on CFrameWnd. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Loading and saving toolbar position Arthurit 23:55 20 Jul '03   Thank you Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Bug wz_zhou 2:56 2 Jun '03   When toolbar dock vertically , there is only first button! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Icon style doesn't work in CButtonXP control jstuardo 8:54 19 Apr '03   Hi... I have a button on a dialog box that has BS_ICON style.... when button is of CButton class, it shows the icon, but when I replace CButton for CButtonXP, the button text is shown instead of the button... How can I do it? Thanks Jaime Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) Re: Icon style doesn't work in CButtonXP control DJ Mantra 2:47 4 Feb '05   CButtonXP does not support Icon's on a Button... U have to implement this by yourself... I'm working on it .. if it works as I expect I'll post it here C'ya Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Incompatible with Win95 adamtegen 5:36 25 Mar '03   I know Win95 is, for the most part, I thing of the past, but these controls don't work on Win95. The root of the problem is , I think, is TrackMouseEvent. It requires WinNT 4.0 or Win98. _TrackMouseEvent emulates TrackMouseEvent and will run on Win95 with IE 3.0 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Incompatible with Win95 Marco van der Kolk 5:20 29 Sep '03   Moreover, the GetHotItem() as used in CToolBarXP is only available from Win95 IE4.0 and up (default was IE3.0), so the toolbar do show properly on old default Win95. Please be aware that IE6.0 is not supported for Win95, the last version you can download is IE5 (and quite hidden deep down in the Microsoft Site) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Incompatible with Win95 pippa 4:44 6 Apr '04   In Tools.cpp, comment the extern "C" WINUSERAPI BOOL WINAPI TrackMouseEvent (LPTRACKMOUSEEVENT lpEventTrack); and change TrackMouseEvent with _TrackMouseEvent, in the following way: //extern "C" WINUSERAPI BOOL WINAPI TrackMouseEvent (LPTRACKMOUSEEVENT lpEventTrack); /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// bool CMouseMgr::OnMouseMove (HWND hTrack) { ASSERT(m_hWnd != NULL); if ( hTrack == NULL ) hTrack = m_hWnd; if ( !m_bOver ) { m_bOver = true; if ( m_wFlags & MMS_PAINT ) { ::InvalidateRect (m_hWnd, NULL, false); } if ( m_wFlags & MMS_NCPAINT ) { ::SetWindowPos (m_hWnd, NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOZORDER|SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_FRAMECHANGED); } // Prepare for tracking MouseOut TRACKMOUSEEVENT tme = { sizeof TRACKMOUSEEVENT, TME_LEAVE, m_hTrack = hTrack, 0 }; ::_TrackMouseEvent (&tme); return true; } if ( hTrack != m_hTrack ) { // Cancel tracking MouseOut for the previous window (main or child) TRACKMOUSEEVENT tme = { sizeof TRACKMOUSEEVENT, TME_CANCEL, m_hTrack, 0 }; ::_TrackMouseEvent (&tme); // Track MouseOut tme.dwFlags = TME_LEAVE; tme.hwndTrack = m_hTrack = hTrack; ::_TrackMouseEvent (&tme); } return false; } I've tried with Win95 IE 5.5 and it does work. A lot of greetings & kisses. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink How to change the combo's height. Duc Truong 22:38 11 Mar '03   Hi Jean, Thanks for a set of cool XP controls. I've been trying to change the height of the combo without success. How come I can only change the width through the create () function? Please help! Thanks in advance. In programming you can do anything (by Paul DiLascia) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink The disabled imagem seems a little orange fpm1 11:40 26 Dec '02   I have tested you example and I have compiled it on VC.NET and I have run it and it worked good. But just an adjust but I use XP standart blue theme, and the disabled button's image seems a little orange, it just a small difference from Word's buttons. I think if you adjust it the buttons will seem exacly like word's buttons! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink XP-style NOT shown darthmaul 5:58 3 Dec '02   as I am interested in using this cool XP-Menu effect, I just started with downloading and running the .exe sample provided. The sample runs but NO XP style effect appears, just the regular 'old fashioned' windows menus. For information, I'm using Windows XP and Office 2K. Do I need to install Office XP in order to have this sample run as shown on the previous screenshot ? Please let me know. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (2 votes) About the compiled demo Jean-Michel LE FOL 22:29 3 Dec '02   Message written on 01/24/02: "The demo is compiled with VC6/SP5 under NT4. If you don't have the same compiler version, please use the source files." To minimize the exe file size, I didn't link statically with MFC librairies. It seems to be the reason of your problem. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) a bug! Anonymous 0:23 22 Aug '02   When I use CComboEditXP context menu,there is a big bug. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 (1 vote) Re: a bug! Takahiro Araki 14:24 16 Jan '03   You can add the code below to avoid the crash. in Tools.cpp bool CMouseMgr::OnMouseOut (HWND hTrack) { // Temporary fix for the context menu crash if (!m_bOver) return false; Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink An error with toolbar DMTR 13:40 3 Aug '02   I have tested your code on Win2K SP2 machine. Everything seems OK but the toolbar is looking as it is simple, not as it is on the demopicture - with shadows, highlight, etc - just simple Windows toolbar. What is wrong? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (2 votes)

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