The BCGControlBar Library framework supports Outlook-style shortcut control bars. You can use these bars to enhance workspace management in your application. 

Here are two screenshots from the "BCGOutlookDemo" example. The first picture shows the control bar displaying a page with a list of buttons. The second picture shows the same control bar displaying a page with embedded tree control. 

The functionality of "outlook" control bars is provided by CBCGOutlookBar class. To use this class perform the following steps:

1. Embed a CBCGOutlookBar object into the main frame window object.
2. When processing the WM_CREATE message (OnCreate),  create (CBCGOutlookBar::Create).
3. Setup the control bar context in the following way:

• Call CBCGOutlookBar::AddPage for each page you want to display on the "outlook" control bar. If a particular page should contain another control (not list of buttons), create this control first and pass a pointer to it as a third parameter to the AddPage function. Note. It is recommended to embed this control to the main frame window object as well. You can initialize the control as usual. 
• Call CBCGOutlookBar::AddButton for each button you want to display on the specific page. 
• The first  AddButton's parameter is an image of a button. You can specify either HBITMAP,  HICON, disk file name or index to a CBCGToolBarImages collection. 
• The third AddButton's parameter is a command ID of a button. Add for each button either ON_COMMAND or ON_COMMAND_EX_RANGE macros and handlers to process button commands.
• Call CBCGOutlookBar::EnableTextLabels (TRUE) to enable text labels.
• Call CBCGOutlookBar::EnableSplitter to make the "outlook" bar resizable.
• Call CBCGOutlookBar::SetBarStyle to provide additional control bar styles.

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