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Do your forms need more real estate without the use of Tabs or Frames? Then check out this Sliding Panel Container Control. This control offers a fresh look and feel with the ability to “host / contain” subsequent controls. Many of the features of this combination control are customizable (i.e. Backcolor, Frame Shape, Color & Thickness, Rollup Speed, Button Type & Offset, Hosted Controls Dis/Enable, Entire Control Dis/Enable, Transparent/Opaque Backstyle, Frame Thickness, Plus 10 Events!). Suggestions and comments are welcome, as this is the first cut. Updated the VB catagory list (07Jul05).
Do your forms need more real estate without the use of Tabs or Frames? Then check out this Sliding Panel Container Control. This control offers a fresh look and feel with the ability to “host / contain” subsequent controls. Many of the features of this combination control are customizable (i.e. Backcolor, Frame Shape, Color & Thickness, Rollup Speed, Button Type & Offset, Hosted Controls Dis/Enable, Entire Control Dis/Enable, Transparent/Opaque Backstyle, Frame Thickness, Plus 10 Events!). Suggestions and comments are welcome, as this is the first cut. Tried to update project and PCS deleted the submission, so here it is again (07Jul05) TerriTop.
*Update 28Jun06* (v1.8.134) - Fixed minor bug in TrimPathByLen method and made it printer object independent. *Update 27Mar06 (v1.8.132)* – Added initial path subclassing CallBack for BrowseForFolder to allow initial path selection without external bas modules. Added Path Let Property and fixed several annoying bugs. Current version is stable and has been tested for several months prior to release... UserControl and TestHarness Updated...Enjoy! Update 04Jan06 (v1.32) – Support for Shell32 BrowseForFolder Added and TestHarness Updated. Update 06Jan06 (v1.33) – Minor bug fix in the DialogMsg when DialogType = ucFolder Updated UserControl and TestHarness. As a developer, one of the most mundane tasks I frequently encounter is the wiring-up and managing of the CommonDialog Controls. The ucPickBox has been designed as a lightweight (~80kb), drop in place, API implementation of the CommonDialog Controls which takes much of this hassle away! ucPickBox provides Color, Font, Open (Single / Mutlifile), Save and Print dialog support, while providing a clean GUI to display the results for both 3D and Flat visual styles. In addition, this UserControl exposes 44 Properties, 14 Methods, 13 Events, and 88 Dialog Flags as enumerations which makes it flexible and easy to use. Among the exposed function are handy tools like: ExractPath, ExtractFilename, FileExists, LongToHexColor, QualifyPath, TranslateColor, and TrimPathByLen. The enclosed project provides an extensive test-harness and documentation to explore the many facets of this UserControl. Enjoy!
Does your application need a Label, Status, and Button control rolled into one? Want more visual appeal than the current Win9X themes? Then check out this iCatcherLabel control which provides all the functionality of a standard label control, with the added features of native graphical buttons that also serve as status icons. This self-subclassed, All API UserControl provides extensive events (15 events) for both the label and button objects, and provides more than 30 properties to control color, alignment, shape, and many more. If you looking for something different, then this might be for you…
ucXTab UserControl is a self-contained (single file), self-subclassed (uses Paul Caton’s subclassing thunk) version of the XTab control submitted to PCS by Neeraj Agrawal. This control contains all of the key features of the original XTab control, but has been extensively reworked to utilize all GDI API drawing and updated subclassing techniques. ucXTab contains 5 tab themes (Windows 9x, Windows XP, VisualStudio, Rounded, and Galaxy), and two tab styles (traditional tabs, property page) which are fully customizable. In addition, key supported features are: dynamic tab addition/removal, adjustable tab heights, mouse-wheel tab scrolling, 14 customizable color properties, tab images, tab image alignment, ImageList support, accelerator key support, and theme detection. The number of properties, methods and events are too extensive to list; however, most of these can be explored fully with the provided test harness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update 14Nov06 (v1.0.85) – Now supports dynamic tab Insertion, Removal, and dynamic control addition for ANY tab via InsertTab, RemoveTab, and AddControl methods, respectively. In addition, ucXTab now supports per tab ControlBoxes which allows the user to close individual tabs similar to IE7 & FireFox. In support of the new features are 7 additional events to track Enter, Exit, Hover, MouseDown and MouseUp for the ControlBox, along with Insert and Remove Tab events. Previously reported (and unreported) graphical bugs have been fixed, and the test harness extended to test the new features. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 20Dec06 (v1.0.130) – Exposed support for dynamic Individual Tab Enable/Disable states, Updated Enabled property to paint the tab headers, body, and ControlBox correctly. Added TabOffset property to allow the developer to select the Left offset used for the “Tab” functionality. Added additional subclassing shut down support to handle host object closure prior to unsubclassing. Updated the test harness to illustrate the new functionality. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 11Mar07 (v1.0.152) – Added support for the 3 native Luna theme colors (NormalColor [Blue], HomeStead [Olive Green], and Metallic [Silver]) under xThemeWinXP TabTheme. Added additional Enabled/Disabled painting refinements for both the UserControl and individual Tabs. Fixed minor ControlBox painting bug. Fixed ControlBoxExit event bug which incorrectly fired on MouseHover. Enjoy, TerriTop
ucMsgBox is a single-file UserControl which uses Paul Caton’s self-subclassing thunk to provide the ultimate control over the System MsgBox. This control allows the developer to Change/Set the Startup Alignment (CenterScreen, CenterOwner), Prompt Alignment (Left, Center, Right), Fonts, Icons (Native + Custom), BackColor, and ForeColor. In addition, the Theme state of the MsgBox dialog is customizable and supports Auto, Win9x, and WinXP button Themes. Moreover, ucMsgBox provides the mechanism to turn any MsgBox into a SelfClosing dialog with countdown enumeration. To provide accuracy of the countdown, one can set the ThreadPriority to allow for high resolution timing. In short, this UserControl takes the standard MsgBox to a new level with out changing one line of code for standard MsgBox calls!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------(Update 16Mar07 – v1.0.240) Fixed minor bug in the SetProcessPriority Method, Added support for all default WinXP Luna Styles (Blue (Blue), Olive Green (HomeStead), Silver (Metallic). Enhance Win9x drawing style to support custom captions, Added Caption Property to provide custom button captions, Added CaptionType Property to allow rapid switching between default and custom captions, Added Subclass_StopAll to the zIdx Method to prevent loss of Mouse and Keyboard inputs when the hWnd is null (see zIdx Method Notes). Enjoy, TerriTop
*UPDATE-v1.0.142* - Fixed Tab Offset for TabCount > 10, Optimized Contained Controls Movement to allow for upto TabCount <= 45. *UPDATE-v1.0.139* - Fixed GDI Leak in Circular Gradient Method which Caused out of Memory Error. ucTabStrip emulates the Microsoft’s Visual Studio Style while providing “true” container support not found in VB’s native version. In addition, this control provides multi-row support, 6 background gradient styles, 8 custom color properties, transparent tab headers style, tab mouse-over hovering, accelerator keys, and a host of appearance and alignment properties for allowing complete customization. Moreover, this control implements a rich assortment of public events (15) to provide the developer with the tools needed to get the job done. So if your looking for an alternative to the native controls, and don’t have time to build your own, then check out this little ditty…TerriTop
ucTimer is a self-subclassed API timer control which is polymorphic to the native VB Timer control. This drop in place control provides all the functionality of the native control, along with setting of process priority and timer directionality (i.e. CountUp or CountDown). This UserControl, which was loosely fashioned after the count down timer of ucMsgBox (PCSID: 67387), is an attempt to solve the single file issues described in Paul Mathers VB Timer submission (PCSID: 3596). Hope this is of use.…..Enjoy! TerriTop
ucBrowse - Theme-Aware Browse for Folder Control ucBrowse is a single file, self-subclassed sited (Form Bound) Browse for Folder replacement control which supports customization. Each control supports the following independent properties: Appearance (Flat, 3D), CheckBoxes, FullRowSelect, HasLines, HotTracking, Path, Root and Theme Detection (Auto, Classic, Blue, HomeStead, and Metallic, None). As a bonus, this submission also includes a Theme Aware version of ucPickBox, which is a self-subclassed Theme-Aware control which wraps up the Browse for Folder, Color, SaveAs, Open and Printer dialogs (see PCS ID 63905). So, if your project needs a Browse for Folder functionality while remaining sited on a form, then this control might be just what the doctor ordered. [Update 16Oct07] Added Unicode support for OS >= Win2K, added HideSelection property (Default = True) to remedy focus management issues, added HasButtons property to allow simple line styles. [Update 28Oct07] Added IsFolder and IsFile support, fixed minor bug in QualifyPath which incorrectly added a backslash to file paths (thanks Ruturaj for catching this!). Enjoy!! TerriTop…
ucStatusBar is a single file, self-subclassed StatusBar replacement control which supports complete customization per individual panel. Each panel supports the following independent properties: Text, Text Alignment (Left, Center, and Right), Auto/Manual Sizing, Editable (Dynamic Text Editing), Icons, Icon States (Enabled, Disabled), UseMaskColor, MaskColor, ForeColor, Font, ToolTipText, and Width. In addition the ucStatusBar as a whole supports BackColor, GripShapes (None, Classic Bars, XP Squares), Sizeable, and Theme Detection (Auto, Classic, Blue, HomeStead, and Metallic). ucStatusBar also provides dynamic runtime Control Binding to allow external controls (Progressbar, Droplist, etc) to be bound to individual panels. As a bonus, this submission also includes ucProgressbar, which is a self-subclassed Theme-Aware progress bar (modified from Mario Flores - Cool XP ProgressBar). So, If your project needs a modern lightweight StatusBar with dynamic runtime functionality without the overhead of dependencies, then this control might be just what the doctor ordered. Enjoy!! TerriTop…