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Najat Ismail
Najat Ismail

Reputation: 31

How to create a new visual style for a MFC ribbon?

The application is using the Windows 7 ribbon style by default:

CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007));

i want to create a new Visual Style where i implemented different colors, so i created the class CMyVisualStyle that inherits from CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007. This is the .h:

class CMyVisualStyle : public CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007
{
    DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CMyVisualStyle)
public:
    CMyVisualStyle();
    ~CMyVisualStyle();
    virtual COLORREF OnDrawRibbonPanel(CDC* pDC, CMFCRibbonPanel* pPanel, CRect rectPanel, CRect rectCaption);
    virtual void OnDrawRibbonCategory(CDC* pDC, CMFCRibbonCategory* pCategory, CRect rectCategory);

This is the .cpp:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "MyVisualStyle.h"

#define IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE(CMyVisualStyle, CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007)
CMyVisualStyle::CMyVisualStyle()
{
}


CMyVisualStyle::~CMyVisualStyle()
{
}
COLORREF CMyVisualStyle::OnDrawRibbonPanel(CDC* pDC, CMFCRibbonPanel* pPanel, CRect rectPanel, CRect rectCaption)
{
CBrush br(RGB(0, 0, 255));
pDC->FillRect(rectPanel, &br);
return RGB(0, 255, 0);
}

void CMyVisualStyle::OnDrawRibbonCategory(CDC* pDC, CMFCRibbonCategory* pCategory, CRect rectCategory)
{
CBrush br(RGB(255, 0, 0));
pDC->FillRect(rectCategory, &br);
//return RGB(0, 255, 0);
}

And i edited this in the the mainframe.cpp:

CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyVisualStyle::GetThisClass()));
//CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007));

But it seems like the RUNTIME_CLASS can't find my class, error: Compiler Error C2653 'identifier' : is not a class or namespace name The language syntax requires a class, structure, union, or namespace name here.

Update: i included the MyVisualStyle.h and it fixed the error. But it doesn't seem to change the Visual style of my ribbon bar.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 699

Answers (1)

xMRi
xMRi

Reputation: 15355

Just use

CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMyVisualStyle));

Upvotes: 1

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