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VisioForge Media Player SDK allows programmers to easily integrate video, audio and DVD playback into their software applications. It also allows you to draw overlay bitmap and text over the video with effects.

• Supported file formats
  • video formats - AVI, MPEG-1/2, WMV, 3GP, QuickTime MOV, MPEG-4/H264 (AVC), any other if you have corresponding decoder
  • audio formats - WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, any other if you have corresponding decoder
  • DVD
• Video processing and effects
  • image and graphic overlays
  • text overlay
  • video transparency
  • brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, etc.
  • inverted colors
  • greyscale
  • more than 30 other effects
• Frame capture to TBitmap/HBITMAP in Delphi/ActiveX, BMP/JPEG/GIF/PNG files
• OSD (On-Screen Display)
• Audio streams from additional audio/video files
• Subtitles support

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You can use HTMLEdit to quickly add HTML editing to your application with little knowledge of HTML on your part and no knowledge of HTML on the part of your application’s users.

The component is being used in content management applications, in website maintenance tools and in e-mail clients. It is designed around the needs of developers of content management applications that deal with textual content and images, it is however not intended as a replacement for applications such as DreamWeaver for layouting entire websites.

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Localizing software for different international markets can double and even quadruple sales. This is why almost every software company considers localization a must. Yet, localization is both a complicated and expensive process. Luckily for Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix developers, there is TsiLang Component Suite - the complete automatic localization solution.

TsiLang Components Suite allows you to build your multilingual applications in two minutes. It makes the process of building multilanguage applications so easy as writing “Hello World.” application. There are no limitations for amount of languages. You can build bilingual or multilingual applications as you decide.

Using TsiLang Components Suite you will be able to provide your user with ability to translate and adjust languages for your applications even without your assistance.

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Smoothly animated menu.

Features:

• Animated menu with hover menu hint text per menuitem
• Can be transparent or have sophisticated gradient, texture or hatch fills
• Built-in color settings for Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles
• Optional animation when switching or hovering menu items and showing hint text & image per menu item
• Built-in support for using BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG images with alpha transparency
• Anti-aliased drawing
• TMS TAdvFormStyler compatible for instant switch between Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles.

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Office 2007 style smoothly animated calendar with sophisticated opacity & fill support.

Features:

• Calendar with sophisticated opacity and fill
• Includes month selector, year selector views
• Single date select or date range selection
• Support for background images, texture fill, gradients, hatch
• Built-in color settings for Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles
• Optional animation between next/prev month, month selector, year selector
• Optional ISO calculated week number indication
• Optional Today indication and “goto today” footer
• Optional shadow
• Anti aliasing support
• TMS TAdvFormStyler compatible for instant switch between Office 2003 / Office 2007 styles.

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One package providing all grid components of TMS software.

Includes:

• TAdvStringGrid: highly supercharged string grid;
• TAdvColumnGrid: string grid with flexible column oriented property management;
• TAdvSpreadGrid: formula - aware spreadsheet version of TAdvStringGrid;
• TDBAdvGrid: DB-aware version of TAdvStringGrid;
• TAdvPreviewDialog: print preview dialog;
• TAdvGridPrintSettings: dialog for setting the various grid’s print options;
• TAdvGridHTMLSettings: dialog for setting the various grid’s HTML export features;
• TAdvGridFindDialog: dialog wrapping all grid’s find functionality;
• TAdvGridWorkbook: multisheet grid interface;
• TAdvGridExcelIO: native XLS read/write interface for grids;
• TAdvGridRTFIO: native RTF export;
• TAdvGridCSVPager: component for handling paged CSV file viewing / editing;
• ESBMathsLib for TAdvSpreadGrid and multi grid formula awareness;
• TChartLink: Synchronize TChart’s with grid’s data in a codeless way.

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TAdvStringGrid is a stringgrid with lots of extra possibilities:

• insert / delete / move rows and columns
• copy / paste to clipboard
• save / load to internal file format
• save / load / append to CSV file
• save / load to XLS file (native, no Excel required)
• save / load to XML file
• save / load to stream
• save to HTML with colors if specified
• save to RTF with images, colors, fonts, alignment, HTML (native, no Word required)
• save to formatted text files
• load from MDB files
• grouping
• filtering
• virtual mode
• Unicode cell support
• BiDi left to right and right to left mode support
• cell alignment, cell color, cell font color, read-only cells, wordwrapped, …
• automatic printing with optional title, page number, date, time, border, header and footer, font control, fit to page
• automatic column sizing
• column sorting (alphabetic, numeric, date, time, custom)
• full sort when clicking on column header + arrow indication (like Internet mail)
• automatic goto cell based on sorted column when key pressed
• hints, comments, balloon tips
• many advanced navigation options
• rotated text
• progress bars, bitmaps, icons, HTML formatted text, range indicators, buttons, checkboxes in cells
• Windows XP, Office 2003 theme aware
• built-in Firefox style search panel
• printsettings, HTML export settings, find, find & replace dialogs included
• native Excel import / export component included
• native RTF export component included
• TAdvGridWorkbook for multi grid use included
• many more…

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BusinessSkinForm VCL (more than 120 components) help you to create applications with skins.

• open architecture for skins
• application can have one or different skins for windows
• run-time skin change
• nonrectangular, dynamically resizable windows
• default style for forms, controls and menus
• custom buttons in form caption
• MDI support
• skin support for menus and hints
• advanced hints with title, image and multiline text
• skin support for controls (label, buttons, speedbuttons, gauge, trackbar, panel, checkbox, radiobox, tab and page controls,  grids controls, listbox, checklistbox, memo, edit, spinedit, dateedit, currency edit, combobox, comboboxex, treeview, listview, shell controls and others)
• many controls can have nonrectangular kind
• full skin support for all standard DB controls + additional DB controls (navigator, grid, ctrlgrid, edit, memo, combobox, listbox, lookup controls and others)
• bitmap background for edits, memos and grids controls
• skin support for all elements in all controls and forms
• skin support for shell dialogs and many others dialogs
• skin support for printer dialogs
• full skin support for all standard dialogs
• enable/disable skin support for forms
• skin support for messages
• Windows 2k, XP, Vista system alphablending support for forms, dialogs, messages, menus, hints, popup controls (layered windows)
• stored skins in *.exe file
• creating your skins with special program
• zip-compression support for skins
• zlib-compression support for skins
• tested in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 Server, XP and Vista
• support BilleniumEffects VCL
• cool skins collections with full rights to use and distribute from your site
• PNG-images support in all controls (internal support)
• Unicode support (SkinAdapter VCL + TMS Unicode Components needed)
• complete support for multimonitors systems
• support SmartEffects VCL (cool animation and transition effects in your applications)

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A package of standard and unique skinable VCL’s for professional UI design development using AlphaSkins. AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties and components, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique.

Features:

• Skins are upgradeable and have a very simple structure.
• The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time.
• Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects.
• It is possible to embed any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment.
• Most standard edit controls are skinned automatically by TsSkinProvider component.
• TPNGImageList component support (if USEPNG key defined).
• Unicode support (see help-file for details).
• Billenium effects and TMS Unicode Component Pack full support.
• Many more…

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Set of Borland Delphi and C++ Builder components for design and print barcodes.

Supported report tools :

• direct print to TCanvas - PSOFT - use procedure PaintBarcode from EanKod unit
• QuickReport - QUSoft.com
• Report Builder - Digital Metaphors
• ACE Reporter - SCT Associates, Inc.
• Fast Report - Fast Report

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