One result is that every AppWizard-generated program is a If you don't want a feature (such as a dockable tree pane), you remove it from the program. The way the AppWizard works for creating these template apps is that it throws in everything, including the kitchen sink. The functionality is now easily available to anyone who can click radio buttons in the AppWizard: For instance, moving that marble and the Quick Access Toolbar buttons up onto the non-client area required quite a bit of hackwork, but it all gets done behind the scenes. The underlying foundation does a lot of work to make all of this happen. And the 'ribbon groups' equate to menus, but in a graphical way that makes them a sort of combination menu and toolbar.

The marble) in the top left corner really basically equates to the old 'File' menu. The 'Vista Orb' or 'Pearl' (what I think of as Now you can create an MFC application program with the same scatter of gadgets and gizmos at the top. That look includes a 'ribbon' rather than, or in addition to, an old fashioned menu bar. The most visible (visual) additions to MFC is support of a U/I feature that is associated with the slick Vista/Windows 7 'look' - actually the look of Microsoft Office applications. MFC provides the toolkit for serious desktop application programmers. While all of the world seems to be gravitating toward aīrowser-centric programming model, lots of us programmers in the trenches know that there is still, and always will be, a place forĭesktop application programs and 'thick client' application software. There are really too many new features to cover in even a long article, so I'm going to single out a few things that I think may have an important impact. These same feature are in the MFC libraries that come with Visual Studio 2010, which is now in beta. To the entities that you wish to transform.In this article, I'll describe - and show pictures of - some of the significant additions that have been made available to programmers in the MFC Feature Pack for Visual C++ 2008. When creating general purpose gizmos like above, you will have to listen to gizmo drag events to apply drag values Tied to objects: MoveGizmo moveGizmo = ()

You can also create general purpose gizmos that can be used to transform other types of entities and are not directly These are all object transform gizmos that are meant to transform objects. ObjectTransformGizmo objectUniversalGizmo = () ObjectTransformGizmo objectScaleGizmo = () ObjectTransformGizmo objectRotationGizmo = () You can create object transform gizmos using the RTGizmosEngine class like so: ObjectTransformGizmo objectMoveGizmo = ()

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