AlphaControls 2009 6.21

AlphaControls 2009 6.21 is designed to provide you with a 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.

There are some properties added, 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

 Enhancements:

• Improved work of TsMagnifier component, added new SizingMode property : TacSizingMode = (asmNone, asmFreeAspectRatio, asmFixedAspectRatio)
• In the TsColorSelect and TsColorDialog was added the StandardDlg property
• Added resource strings with Ukrainian language
• Little bugfixes and improvements 

 WareSeeker Editor