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Controls 2011 for ActiveX COM
Controls for ActiveX COM provides Windows developers with several ready-to-use components that have been thoroughly designed and tested.
Controls is included with the Suite Pro for ActiveX evaluation.
Product Features
Codejock Controls provide several options to choose from including Buttons, Combo Box, Common Dialogs, Progress Bars, Edit Controls, Alert Popup Widows, Themed Scroll Bars, Tab Controls, Shell Controls, XAML Markup Support, Taskbar Manager and much more!
Buttons
Combo Box
Dialogs
- Tip of the Day
- Browse for Directory
- Resizable Layout Manager
- MDI Windows List Manager
- Color Selection
Progress Bars
Edit
Messenger Style Popup
Task Dialog
Scroll Bars
Tab Control
Windows Shell
Markup Support
Taskbar Manager
Other Controls
Supported Environments
Visual Studio .NET 2002
Visual Studio .NET 2003
Visual Studio .NET 2005
Visual Studio .NET 2008
Visual Studio .NET 2010
Visual Studio .NET 2012
Visual Basic 6.0
Microsoft Access
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 8, Windows 8 x64
Windows 7, Windows 7 x64
Vista, Vista x64
Windows XP, Windows XP x64
Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, 2008
Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me
Minimum Requirements
Visual Basic 6.0
Windows 95/NT
Color Picker Control
The Color Picker Button can be placed anywhere a normal button control can be placed and has several features including options for standard and extended color selection, automatic or fill color button, hex display and an extended color selection dialog.
Button Styles
The ‘themed button styles’ are great for displaying graphics and have several display options available. You can choose from flat, semi-flat or 3D style buttons, turn on or off focus display, center images and text or highlight the button when the item is selected.
Auto Complete
Using Auto Complete will cause the combo box to suggest an item as you type from the combo box's list of items. The suggestion will get more accurate as more characters are typed. This allows users to easily find items within the combo box without having to scroll through the list of items.
Combo Box Control Themes
Several of the most popular themes can be applied to the combo box control included with Xtreme Common Controls.
Tip of the Day Dialog
The Visual Studio style ‘Tip of the Day Dialog’ is a quick and easy way for you to include a tip of the day in your application. The control reads a simple tips.txt file that you create and display messages to your end users and stores its settings in your systems registry or .ini file.
Browse for Folder Dialog
The ‘Browse for Folder Dialog’ conveniently wraps the ‘BrowseForFolder’ API which allows you to display the browse dialog with a single line of code. You can quickly and easily display the startup directory and retrieve the user selection.
Resizable Layout Manager
The ‘Resizable Layout Manager’ classes found in Xtreme Common Control allow you to easily create flicker free resizing Dialogs, Form Views and Property Sheets. You can quickly assign how to move and resize each control located on your dialog template with a single line of code.
MDI Windows Manager
The ‘MDI Windows Manager’ provides an easy way for you to manage your applications open documents. The manager allows you to select all or some of your open documents to easily manage them at runtime.
Color Selection Dialog
The Office Style Color Selection Dialog has several features including options for standard and extended color selection, automatic or fill color buttons, hex display and an extended color selection dialog.
Themes Progress Bars
The ProgressBar control shows the progress of a lengthy operation by filling a rectangle with chunks from left to right. Many of the most popular themes such as Office are supported.
Hex Edit Control
The ‘Hex Edit Control’ allows you to display and edit hex data visually. You can easily retrieve data selection and define display styles. Works great with the Xtreme Controls masked edit control to display hex data.
Mask Edit Control
The ‘Masked Edit Control’ allows you to define a display and edit mask for the control. Easily create your own mask style for date, telephone or any edit display. You can restrict the use of certain characters and define a default string that is displayed.
Edit Control Themes
Several of the most popular themes can be applied to the edit control included with Xtreme Common Controls.
Popup Control Theme Support
Xtreme Controls's popup control provides several built in themes that are ready to use. You can choose from one of the predefined themes or create your own.
Popup Control Animation
Xtreme Controls's popup control allows you to configure how your popup window will be displayed using animation effects. You can easily choose from one of several predefined effects that include Unfold, Slide, Fade and None.
Popup Control Transparency and Hyperlinks
Xtreme Controls's popup control allows you to configure the transparency level
of your popup window.
You can easily add a hyperlink to your popup window.
When you move the mouse cursor over text that is a hyperlink, the text will
become underlined indicating that you will be redirected to another window or
website when clicked on. And the window will become opaque again when the mouse is over the window.
Popup Control Animation and Delay
Xtreme Controls's popup control allows you to easily configure the amount of time the popup window is displayed and the amount of time it takes to complete the animation when opening and closing your popup windows. You can configure the window to open and close as long or as short as you like.
Task Dialog Control
The TaskDialog Control creates, displays, and operates a task dialog. A task dialog is similar to, while much more flexible than, a basic message box. The task dialog contains application-defined messages, title, verification check box, command links and push buttons, plus any combination of predefined icons and push buttons.
Themes Scroll Bars
Scroll bars provide easy navigation through a long list of items or a large amount of information. Many of the most popular themes such as Office are supported.
Enhanced Tab Control
The “Enhanced Tab Control” provides advanced features such as auto condensing tabs, tab icons and Visual Studio .NET style themes. You can easily change the tab control's style during runtime to provide greater control and ease of use.
Tab Control Themes
The “Tab Control” provides several of the most popular themes which include Visual Studio .NET, Office, Windows, and many more! The themes are already built in, so you don't have to spend any extra time on this.
System Tray Icon Control
The ‘System Tray Icon Control’ allows you to quickly and easily add your application's icon to the system tray. You can easily define popup menus, balloon tips and even animation to your displayed icons. Easily minimize to and maximize from the system tray and much more!
XAML Markup Support
Most controls allows you to use XAML to format the contents of the control. Codejock ships an XAML editor utility to help you make XAML snippets to place in the controls.
Taskbar Manager Control
The Taskbar Manager control allows you to add an overlay icon, progress bar and jumplist to the task bar button for your application while using Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Check List Box
The ‘Check List Box’ mimics the look and feel of the Office check list box control. The Check List Box allows you to display items that can be selected or un-selected by the user placing a check next to the item. You can enable / disable items or even set the check box image list for the control.
Enhanced Multi-selection Tree
The ‘Multi-selection Extended Tree’ control allows you to select multiple tree items, sort and search tree items, define font style, font color and weight. Easily traverse the tree control and set the selection mode for multiple tree item selection.
List Control
The ‘List Control’ is great for creating an Outlook style list control. You can define a Windows Classic, Windows Explorer, Office, etc style header, sort arrows, bold or normal text, size columns to fit the display area, define a minimum size for a column, disable sizing or any combination of extended features.
Window Position
The ‘Window Position’ control will remember and restore the size and position of the last window open in the MDI view. Not only is the child window's position saved, but the main application's size and position is saved and restored too. This eliminates users having to manually resize and move windows.<
Registry Manager
The ‘Registry Manager’ class allows you to conveniently store and retrieve many different types of data to and from the system registry or an INI file which provides easy access for your applications. You can use the Registry manager to read and write strings, integers, and binary values to the system registry or an INI file. The Registry Manager provides many methods for saving values such as LPCTSTR, CPoint, CRect, Double, Dword, and COLORREF.
Tooltip Window
The ‘Tooltip Window’ control allows you to display popup messages to the end user. You can easily define the message, tip window and border color, text location within the window, line spacing, shadow offsets and timeout values.
