is there a way to change the Style of a MFC Ribbon Application to the Office 2013 Style/Look?
I´ve searched with Google but didn´t find anything. I´d be happy if someone can help me.
Ribbon Style is available since the VS-2010 Feature Pack.
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I want to mimic the word ribbon. But i can't find any resource that goes in depth on this subject matter or a template like the office developer tool template for MFC.
The Office 2016 ribbon is not exactly available, but the Ribbon Framework is. Here is one of my old articles about it.
The new VS 11 features a grey-style user interface that is cool. Is it possible for me apply this to my MFC App? Thanks!
The last "update" for MFC controls and their appearance was the MFC Feature Pack, as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb982354.aspx
Unfortunately, it does not include the VS 2011 style, but maybe you find something else which would be interesting for your application (for example ribbons etc).
They did not include pictures of their controls, you can only check them in their sample application, which you can download here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb983962.aspx
or via Google Image Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=mfc+feature+pack
I developed app in mFC using vs2008 and MFC Feature pack 2008. its look and feel is like 2007 office style. Now i want app look and feel like office 2010.
Will you explain me how to do it?
The easiest way is to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010, which provides a "Windows 7" style for the ribbon control. This style is supposed to simulate that native ribbon control that is used in Windows 7 applications like Paint and Wordpad. (Note that a slight modification to the wizard-generated code is currently necessary, as described here on Microsoft Connect.) Presumably, this style also looks like the one used in Office 2010, although I can't say for sure as I haven't given Microsoft all of my money yet.
Decide for yourself:
Alternatively, you could just use the native ribbon control yourself. There's a sample project here:
Windows 7 Ribbon: The Time Has Come, Your Win32 Application Will Change. But if you've already done a lot of work laying out the ribbon in VS 2008, this probably isn't a very compelling option.
Lesson: There's a hefty price to be paid for being on the bleeding edge. If this isn't exactly the same look that you're hoping to emulate, you may very well be out of luck. If your design goals amount to copying what the Office team does, you're going to be quite a busy little bee: toolbars are their absolute favorite thing to reinvent.
EDIT: Looks like you might not be completely out of luck after all. BCGSoft (the company that Microsoft bought the ribbon control from in the first place for the MFC Feature Pack) has released a library that attempts to simulate the Office 2010 experience in several different ways. Throw money at them here.
My team has spent a long time developing a nice UI using the ribbon included in the VS2008 MFC Feature Pack.
Now that Windows 7 is out and the look and feel of the ribbon has changed, my application looks out of date already, and it hasn't even been released yet :/
I want the look and feel of the Windows 7 ribbon ("scenic ribbon") ideally without changing anything - does anyone know whether there will be an update to the feature pack which will solve this?
I can't move to using the Windows 7 SDK ribbon, because I need to support XP, and the 7 SDK only supports 7 and Vista.
The only alternative I can think of is to go for a 3rd party library such as BCGControlBar Pro or Prof-UIS Elegant Ribbon, both of which I don't mind paying for but it's the amount of rework that's the issue (presumably the BCG one would be the easiest to migrate to, as the MFC Feature Pack ribbon is based on that one).
This blog shows that in VS2010 the MFC ribbon will have a "Windows 7" style.
So I guess I just need to wait for VS2010. Result!
I'd like to know whether I can embed a web browser control into my Irrlicht (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net) application.
A simple HTML renderer or maybe a trick to embed an Internet Explorer ActiveX control into my Irrlicht application is just OK.
Is it possible? If so, how?
Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated! :)
FYI: Irrlicht 1.6 on Windows platform with MSVC++ 2008 EE
note: sometimes I get better and faster responses in SO rather than in the community forum itself. ;D