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The FormMagnet allows to magnetize your forms to an edges of screen / work area, borders of parent window and to other forms. Forms can glue each others, so when user moves the form, others, “glued” forms will be moved too. With FormMagnet, your forms can looks and feels like windows of famous WinAmp player.

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.

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AnimationEffect component will add a smooth and extremely cool looking animation effects on opening and closing of your windows and dialog boxes. It draws animated frames based on mathematical matrixes. Available effects: Spin, Vortex, ScatterGather, Spike, Fireworks.

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.

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TUsersPRO (PROfessional version) is a security component designed for applications with medium security needs like password protection, protection of menu items and easy security configuration through profiles. With a little configuration level at design-time, your application is ready to control its users’ permissions. With TUsersPRO you do not need to write code for implementing the users control. You just need to connect TUsersPRO to the TMenu component of your main form and the component does everything for you.

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TUsersSTD (STanDard version) is a security component designed for applications with few security needs such as password protection only and menu items protection. With a few lines of code and a little configuration at design-time, your application is ready to control users permissions and restrict some resources of your program depending on the permission level granted to the user. The component includes a built-in administration tool that allows the administrator to create users, modify user’s data (including user’s password),  set permissions level to users and delete users.

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The TUsers Security Component v2.0 is a set of components especially designed to allow developers to easily implement User Authentication and User Rights Management in applications developed with the tools Borland Delphi and C++ Builder. The component allows to control the access of the application through a login screen, where the user’s name and password are requested. The component verifies whether the user is valid and reads their access configurations from the security database, applying the user settings in the application.

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TsiLang Components Suite includes a number of highly professional, easy-to-use VCL components, wizards and tools for building multi-language applications under Delphi and C++Builder.

On the one hand, our product dramatically simplifies the entire process of globalization, and on the other hand it allows you to provide your customers with quality, user-friendly applications that can switch from one locale to another on-the-fly. We would like to describe some of the features of TsiLangâ„¢ Components Suite that make the product unique:

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NextGrid is a powerful Delphi/CBuilder Grid. It is very easy to use it (in design-time with using Column Editor and in run-time).

NextGrid have much more features than standard Grid, attractive look (full XP themes support), it is extremely fast (quick sorting, data manipulation, drawing…).
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IB Objects is the most powerful toolbox available for developing client and service applications for InterBase/Firebird in Delphi and Borland C++Builder without the BDE, ODBC or any other middleware.

IB Objects provides more than 80 components for use with 32bit Delphi and C++Builder. The “native IBO” classes require only a Desktop Developer edition. Professional editions of these products are required only if you need to develop with the TDataset-compatible classes.

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TXDBGrid component is a powerful functional extension of standard TDBGrid component. TXDBGrid component looks beautiful and implements many additional features like: fixed columns, fixed styles (flat and 3D), Windows XP themes, many variants of gradient drawing style, enhanced flat and 3D scrollbars, proportional scrolling for any DataSet even filtered, expandable columns and title headers, checkboxes, hot buttons, title and indicator images, many variants of pictures drawing into cells, title markers and multicolumns sorting, enhanced lookup lists, pick lists and drop-down lists, calculator, calendar, storing and loading columns layout (to ini file, registry, stream, string), enhanced support for bdRightToLeft BiDiMode, extended rows selection and notification, multiline rows and auto-numbering, hints, tooltips, column stretching and many many more …

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How to Create Rounded Form

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