Menus support the following:

• Microsoft Office-style menus.

• Office-style menu bars that you can dock and that you can be customize with an image.

• Menu animations in which an image fades in, unfolds, or slides into view.

• Menu shadows.

• Menu tooltips.

• Scrollable menus.

• Owner-drawn menu images.

• An owner-drawn logo on the left of the menu.

• Menu fonts that you can change at runtime.

• Most recently used (MRU) lists and Windows lists.

• Tear-off menus.

• A right-aligned combo box (similar to the Help combo box in Office 2003 applications).

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Toolbars support the following:

• Button images that change when the mouse hovers over the button.

• Large icons.

• A double-chevron button that indicates there are more buttons than are currently visible.

• Toolbars that are not customizable.

• Auto-build keyboard shortcuts in menus and tooltips.

• Rebar support.

• Text below images.

• Standard combo box and text box buttons.

• Standard font combo box and font size combo box buttons.

• Standard color picker control.

• MS Office visual style.

• Transparent toolbars with a background image.

• Drop-down tear-off panes that contain a pin button.

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Panes are windows that are typically resizable, tear-off, and dockable. Panes support the following:

• Microsoft Office-style dialog box bars.

• Office-style menu bars that support images and docking.

• Microsoft Outlook-style shortcut bars.

• Outlook-style caption bars.

• Outlook-style task panes.

• Visual Studio-style panes that resemble toolbox, property, and browser panes.

• Rebar controls whose contents and position persist between runs of an application.

• Status bars that support icons, animations, and progress bars.

• A print preview service.

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The ribbon control supports the following:

• General ribbon features.

• Vista Aero integration.

• Ribbon panels.

• Ribbon contextual categories (tabs).

• Ribbon elements.

• Ribbon keytips.

• Ribbon palettes (galleries).

• Ribbon customization.

• Ribbon mini-toolbars.

• The Ribbon Launch button.

• The Ribbon Main button.

• The Ribbon status bar.

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• The Microsoft Outlook Desktop Alert displays a popup window that contains a notification. An example of a desktop alert is the window that informs you that a mail message has arrived in your Outlook inbox.

Controls are enhanced to support the following:

• URL link button.

• Pushbutton that is decorated with a bitmap image.

• Menu button.

• Editable list.

• Color picker control.

• Shell tree control.

• Shell list control.

• Masked edit control.

• Custom tooltip control.

• Edit control that contains a browse button.

• Property grid.

• MDI tab control.

• Tab control that supports visual styles such as three-dimensional, Excel, OneNote, and so on.

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MFC enhances support for the following dialog boxes:

• Windows manager dialog box.

• An Office-style color selection dialog box.

• Image editor dialog box.

• Property sheets that contain controls such as a shortcuts bar, tree controls, or an Office 2007-style list.

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You can customize controls with color, images, and text. Customization supports the following:

• Drag buttons between toolbars and menus.

• Edit user-defined images by using a simple bitmap editor.

• Create user-defined toolbars at runtime.

• Customize context menus.

• Use the toolbar customization menu to quickly customize toolbar buttons.

• Use menu resources to automatically create customization categories.

• Customize a toolbar by pressing ALT while dragging a toolbar button.

• Customize mouse event handling.

• Customize keyboard shortcuts.

• Save and restore toolbar and menu states to the registry.

• Access the workspace manager that persists customization settings to the registry.

• Call user-defined tools.

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MFC provides a visualization manager that draws controls according to the visual style that you select. Visualization supports the following:

• Microsoft Office 2000/XP/2003/2007 visual style.

• Visual Studio 6.0/.NET/2005 visual style.

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MFC supports the following window features:

• MDI tabbed groups.

• Detachable tabs.

• Auto-hide windows.

MFC also supports the following operations:

• Save and load the state of opened documents.

• Dock several panes to a floating mini frame window.

• At run time, change the type of docking to:

  • Standard - The contents of a window are not drawn while the window is being dragged (for example, as in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003).

  • Immediate - The contents of a window are drawn while the window is being dragged (for example, as in Microsoft Visio).

  • Smart - The contents of a window are drawn while the window is being dragged and arrow markers indicate positions where the window can dock (for example, as in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008).

• Alpha-blend images (support for 32-bit images).

• Display globalized text in right-to-left (RTL) format.

• Enable accessibility support.

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