AlphaControls 2009 6.31

AlphaControls 2009 6.31 is a kind of software which helps you develop 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 Feartures:

1. Over 80 skin controls and invisible components
2. 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)
3. Flicker free
4. 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
5. TsHintManager make hints to be displayed alpha-blended, with HTML-formatting and you can choose from many ways to display
6. Added caption properties for position and rendering
7. Mouse event added provide great possibilities
8. Skinned forms and menus. Full SDI & MDI forms support
9. 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
10. Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager component)
11. Possibility of components using without skins. Standard kind of controls is supported (XP themes using is possible)
12. Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library
13. Designing in design-time in IDE
14. Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing. Freeware skin editing tool is available.
15. Animation effects in some controls and forms
16. Skinned windows shell controls
17. Billenium effects full support ...
18. Full standard windows help file describing all properties, events and methods of the component and related objects
19. Possibility of the skins embedding in the single Exe-file by few mouse clicks

Enhancements:

• In the TsCalculator component was added the ScaleIncrement property
  
• Fixed few errors in BorderIcons work
  
• Little bugfixes and improvements
  

Requirements:

• Windows