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BusinessSkinForm VCL library help you to create applications with skins support for forms, menus, hints, many standard and DB controls. You can create your skins with special editor. Develop your business applications with BusinessSkinForm VCL!

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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 and with some new technologies using.

• 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
• And so on…

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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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Mainly contains easily skinnable/attractive controls with animation/ fade/ tween effects: ImgProgressBar, ImgTrackBar, ImgCheckBox, ImgButton, ImgForm, ImgLED, GradientBar, FadeImage, DirBrowse.

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