AlphaControls 2009 6.13

AlphaControls 2009 6.13 provides users with a professional package of standard and unique skinable VCLs 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, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique.

Major Features:

1. Skinning of standard and 3rd-party components and over 80 own controls which are optimized for using with skins and have own additional features
2. System dialogs automatic skinning
3. Skinable forms (SDI & MDI) and menus
4. Possibility of components using without skins
5. Native support of PNG files, own TsAlphaImageList component
6. 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
7. Support of packed and unpacked skins
8. Easy embedding of any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment
9. The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time
10. Style Hints control make hints to be displayed alpha-blended and you can choose from many ways to display (PNG templates are supported)
11. Added caption properties for position and rendering
12. Mouse event added provide great possiblities
13. Easy and powerfull skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports of alpha-masks
14. Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
15. Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
16. Designing in design-time in IDE
17. Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing
18. Animation effects in some controls
19. Frames full automatic support
20. Unicode support if TntControls or BDS 2009 used
21. Working with the components is very simple and intuitive
22. Over 80 skinable controls and invisible components
23. 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)
24. Flicker free
25. 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
26. TsHintManager make hints to be displayed alpha-blended, with HTML-formatting and you can choose from many ways to display
27. Added caption properties for position and rendering
28. Mouse event added provide great possiblities
29. Skinned forms and menus. Full SDI & MDI forms support
30. 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
31. Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
32. Possibility of components using without skins. Standard kind of controls is supported (XP themes using is possible)
33. Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
34. Designing in design-time in IDE
35. Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing. Freeware skin editing tool is available.
36. Animation effects in some controls and forms
37. Skinned windows shell controls
38. Billenium effects full support ...
39. Full standard windows help file describing all properties, events and methods of the component and related objects
40. Possibility of the skins embedding in the single Exe-file by few mouse clicks
41. And so on...

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