martEffects is an easy-to-use VCL that enables you to create amazing splash screens, forms, controls and image transition effects.

Over 50 families of animation and transition effects. Real-time rendering. WYSIWYG editing of animation effects.

SmartEffects features:

• easy to use
• over 50 transition effects
• cool collection with over 70 mask-bitmaps for “Bitmap – Animation” type of transition effect
• advanced rendering engine
• amazing splash screens
• form and controls transition effects
• image transition effects
• real-time rendering
• testing in Windows 98, ME, NT 4, 2k, 2003, XP and Vista

Homepage: http://www.almdev.com/
Download: http://www.almdev.com/main/downloads.htm
File Size: 7.3 MB
Delphi Version: Delphi 5 – Delphi 2007
Source: None

DynamicSkinForm VCL help you to create applications with skins as WinAmp, iTunes or standard applications.

Features:

• application can have one or different skins for windows
• run-time skin change
• nonrectangular, dynamically resizable windows
• custom skins (as WinAmp, iTunes)
• MDI support
• skin support and default style for dialog windows and tool windows
• default style for form and controls
• skin menus with nonrectangular kind, effects, multi-items support
• skin support for many controls: treeview, listview, richedit, combobox, listbox and checklistbox, scrollbar, memo, edit and spinedit,tabcontrol and pagecontrol, stringgrid and drawgrid, panel, groupbox, button, label, trackbar, gauge, checkbox, radiobox, round regulator, gauge, animate, switch, updown, controlbar, splitter, menu-button, scrollbox, colorcombobox, fontcombobox (many controls can have nonrectangular kind)
• skin support for shell controls and dialogs
• skin support for printer dialogs
• skin support for all elements in all controls and forms
• linking controls to areas
• skin support for standard dialogs and shell dialogs
• skins with objects: caption, buttons, gauge, switch, trackbar, animate, labels, areas for user objects
• morphing effects for objects and controls
• alphablending effect for menus and controls
• layered windows (system alphablening effect) support for forms, dialogs, messages, menus, hints
• alphablending animation for forms, dialogs, messages, menus and controls
• JPEG files support
• skin support for cursors
• skin support for hints with nonrectangular kind, alphablending effect
• rollup state for forms
• stored skin in *.exe file
• open architecture for skins
• creating your skins with special editor
• Zlib-compression support for skins
• cool skins collections with full rights to use and distribute from your site
• support BilleniumEffects components
• support PNG images in controls
• tested in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.

Homepage: http://www.almdev.com/
Download: http://www.almdev.com/main/downloads.htm
File Size:3.3 MB – 5.6 MB
Delphi Version: Delphi 5 – Delphi 2007
Source: None

Features:

• easy to use
• real transparency
• real anti-aliasing effect
• save flash frame to bitmap with alpha channel
• load flash, FLV from file, resource file, stream
• store your flashes, FLV in *.exe file
• support Macromedia Flash ActiveX 3,4,5,6,7,8,9
• layered windows support
• windows with regions support
• enable/disable flash sounds
• adjust sounds volume
• interaction with Delphi and C++Builder
• full compatible with DynamicSkinForm VCL and BusinessSkinForm VCL

SmartFlash is intended for use with:

• Delphi 2007
• Delphi 2006
• C++Builder 2006
• Turbo Delphi
• Turbo C++
• Delphi 2005
• Delphi 5,6,7
• C++ Builder 5,6

Homepage: http://www.almdev.com/
Download: http://www.almdev.com/main/downloads.htm
File Size: 4.8 MB
Delphi Version: Delphi 5 – Delphi 7
Source: None

SUISkin is the easiest-to-use VCL skin component for Delphi & C++Builder. It provides you the ability to make skin-supported application automatically. You will never spend many time on programming skin supports.

Using SUISkin, you don’t need to make any modification for your existing projects just drop the skin engine component onto the main form and set some properties, that’s all. It can skin all forms and dialogs automatically. And the skin files can be compiled into the EXE file so that you don’t need to distribute the skin files with the EXE. At run-time, you can switch the skins very easily and you can switch to unskinned easily too. Let’s say, just one component for one project!

Key features

• Dozens of professionally-UI-designed official skins from UI artists and a lot of third-party skins
• Easiest to use – Just one component for one application
• Fully automatic – Skins all forms and all dialogs automatically
• Make your existing project with skin easily
• Supports third-party controls
• Supports Docking forms
• Supports BidiMode
• No flicking
• Switch from skin to unskin easily
• Supports one or more skin files to be built into the EXE file
• Provides SkinBuilder tool, with it which supports to load VisualStyle(*.msstyles) files, you can own thousands of skins now!
• Fully MDI supported
• Without requiring any DLL or OCX

Homepage: http://www.sunisoft.com/suiskin/
Download: http://www.sunisoft.net/download/suiskintrial.zip
File Size: 9.59 MB
Delphi Version: Delphi 5 – Delphi 2005
Source: None

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With FormMagnet forms obtains following abilities:

• to be attracted to edges of screen or work area (considering placement of task / appbars);
• to be attracted to borders of parent form (for child windows);
• to attract other forms (with FormMagnet on them) to itself;
• to glue other forms to itself (when user move form, others, attached forms will be moved too);
• to move forms, dragging by client area.

Homepage: http://www.appcontrols.com/
Download: formmagnet.zip, Exe-demo
File Size: 272 KB
Delphi Version: Delphi 2 – Delphi 2006
Source: None

Second (kind of bonus component) is the Win2kEffects, which allows to produce some special effects of the Windows 98 / 2000 (and higher). You can show roll, slide and alpha-blending animation effects on showing and hiding windows, make your forms translucent, flash the caption bars and taskbar icons.

Homepage: http://www.appcontrols.com/
Download: animationeffect.zip | Exe-demo
File Size: 464 KB
Delphi Version: Delphi 2 -Delphi 2006
Source: None

Homepage: http://www.zecos.com/delphi/components.html
Download: elegantmdi.zip
File Size: 57 KB
Delphi Version: Delphi 4 – Delphi 7
Source: Included

• An interface with buttons, checkboxes, edits and other controls, design of which is changed like Windows XP Themes.
• A fully graphical interface with custom images instead of buttons and other controls.

Features:

• 100% alpha channel support in components drawing.
• Every skin is describen in a separete skin.ini file.
• A skin file contains a set of skin styles: genearal and special ones.
• A general skin style is a set of elements (images or geometrical figures).
• JPEG, PNG-8 and PNG-24 (with 8-bit transparency) graphic file formats are supported.
• These figures can be drawn as skin style elements: rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles, polygons and lines.
• All figures can be drawn with a translucent border and a gradient fill.
• Using a BoxTile element you can freely design buttons and other controls.
• Optimized for processors with MMX instructions support.
• Can be used in Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, C++Builder 6 and C++Builder 2006.
• Designed for operating systems Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
• Full source code is 100% open.

Homepage: http://www.saarixx.info/sxskincomponents/en/index.htm
Download: sxskincomponents_1.2.1_full.zip
File Size: 3.35 MB
Delphi Version: Delphi 6, 7, 2005, 2006, C++Builder 6, 2006
Source: Included