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Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has ribbon menu support. Is it possible to make use of that in an existing MFC application that was not created with a ribbon menu?
It certainly is possible to take an existing MFC application and update it to use the ribbon in the MFC Feature Pack, and I’ve done this myself.
There are a couple of walkthrough articles on MSDN here that show how to do it, using the Scribble MFC sample application that you may be familiar with.
In essence, what you need to do is change your code to use the Feature Pack base classes instead of the standard MFC base classes – for example, replace
CWinAppwithCWinAppEx,CFrameWndwithCFrameWndEx, etc. Then you can addCMFCRibbonBarandCMFCRibbonApplicationButtonobjects to your main window class to create the ribbon itself. To get started I’d suggest downloading the Scribble sample and following the walkthough articles.I hope this helps!