AlphaControls v5.01 (beta)
Posted by Paul on April 17, 2007
AlphaControls is a collection of standard and original skinned controls, with new properties added, in order to enhanced program interface and add behaviors to common controls.
- Over 80 skinable controls and invisible components
- All elements of controls are drawn with alpha-channel using (control may be alpha-blended, can have realistic borders, shadows or other fine and unique effects)
- Flicker free
- Graphics functions are rendered in real-time, so, effects are always sharp with color scheme used and also moving and resizing in run-time of each control is supported
- TsHintManager make hints to be displayed alpha-blended, with HTML-formatting and you can choose from many ways to display
- Added caption properties for position and rendering
- Mouse event added provide great possiblities
- Skinned forms and menus. Full SDI & MDI forms support
- Easiest and powerful skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports alpha-masks
- Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
- Possibility of components using without skins. Standard kind of controls is supported (XP themes using is possible)
- Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
- Designing in design-time in IDE
- Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing. Freeware skin editing tool is available.
- Animation effects in some controls and forms
- Skinned windows shell controls
- Full standard windows help file describing all properties, events and methods of the component and related objects
- Possibility of the skins embedding in the single Exe-file by few mouse clicks
For Delphi 5/6/7/2005/2006, BCB 6/2006. The package is available from AlphaSkins.
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