AlphaControls Lite Edition 6.22

AlphaControls Lite Edition 6.22 is a useful tool which is designed to provide help with both skinned and non-skinned applications.

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. Also added some properties, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique.

Major Features:

1. Over 80 skinable 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 possiblities
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: Many small problems are solved and improvements