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Active Form Animation is an example for making just more beautiful application, check it out, and vote.

Make any Object/Form Transparnt & non-squared, so Powerfull and Easy

This article show how you can do custom AboutBox in custom control (usercontrol).

Simple time control I made to satisfy my needs in one of my softwares. Might as well publish the source so that everyone can enjoy it... Similar to DTpicker time control but it has some changes and other stuff... Just add the User Control to your project and it's ready to use... no OCX's needed. Feel free to modify etc, but respect my copyrights :p

This is a draggable toolwindow inside another window. Normally windows can only be inside an MDI form, but this is a great control which looks and acts like a real window. Completely customizable!!! If you plan to place many toolwindows inside a form, try duplicating the source files and adding each toolwindow as a separate toolwindow so you can customize them according to your needs. [ See another demonstration of this control in my other project: City Builder (txtCodeId=57486&lngWId=1)]

(2/2/08) - STYLE BUTTON - a high quality skin button from ajay kumar having more than 500 themes and a Beautifull themes manager RECENT CHANGES : * Version 1.2 ############ Updated - Now All Common Functions (Standalone) Are In One Bas File. Fixed - Major Bugs / Missing Code Fixed - Theme Manager Added - Theme Manager Now Supports Loading of Resampled Images to Correct Skin Problems Fixed - Usercontrol 3 State Pictures Sections Problem Updated - Propertysheet Now Shows Faster and Emulates Buttons Correctly Added - Benchmarking Tool to Benchmark Buttons on Your System Fixed - Usercontrol Button Picture Displaying Cordinates & Additional Bugs Fixed * Version 1.1 ########### Updated - Full Functional Theme Manager . Add / Delete / Manage Styles in Theme Files Added - Font Support. Added - Property Sheet Now Focus on Current Style. Updated - Property Sheet Fast Loading. Updated - UserControl Now Loads Very Fast & Additional Bugs Fixed * Version 1.0 ############ PropertySheet Fixes - Selection of the used theme , Speed up Loading , Multiple Buttons Skin Selection Supported , & Bug Fixed Usercontrol Fixes - Speeded Up , Added Normal Button Style , Loading Time Optimized , Memory Leak Fixed & Known Bugs Fixed HOW TO USE : Add a Usercontrol and propertysheet to the current project, add usercontrol to the form , right click and select properties. if there's no theme file listed then set the path to themes folder (defaultly its set to use it from current directory\themes folder. but you can change it). you can then select the theme file and select its style and click ok . you can add a image to the button by selecting the usercontrol and click buttonstyle on the right side properties of usercontrol. if you want to algin the image to center, just resize the control and increase its height. to set the image in left side , just resize the control and decrease its height . ABOUT STYLE BUTTON : This is a usercontrol of sytle button and it is highly skinnable . it uses a property sheet to set the theme . the theme files are templates that are used to set the button styles once . when you use the usercontrol and compile It , it does not needs theme files (themes are just required at the selection time) . more than 500 button styles are included in this release. TO CREATE THEMES : create 3 state images using photoshop or any image editing software . open theme manager. select the 3 images, set the x,y propertys by selecting the preview. push Save.

Sub Classes the standard ComboBox and makes it look like the Windows XP one

Sort of Emulates the Windows XP Statusbar

Lots of people including me, have or still are, creating custom controls that emulate the look and feel of Windows XP. To some this may seem as a waste of time because a Manifest will do all the hard work for you and repaint the boring normal controls in the new XP look. However so many client machines don't have XP yet and if someone has made these XP style of controls for you then why not use them. Also if you want to use a Progress Bar, Status Bar or Tab Strip control you still have to carry around that Comctrl32.ocx which almost every Vb`er hates. If its a Tab Strip control you are looking for, then I hope this one is good enough for you to freely use in any of your projects. The control is far from being perfect and future enhancements will be made when I have the time. Enjoy

A Tab strip control emulating the look of Win XP Looks the same as version 1 but more features.

A graphical form

This control uses an invisible mask along with a mask type of text, numeric, or date. A user can only type in an entry that fits the mask (see html page included). There is plenty of code in here that could be ripped out and placed in other controls.

Enhanced combobox with various levels of Auto complete (including Access style), Auto drop down, settable dropdown width, and an easier coding interface.

[v 1.01] This is a control that provide selection one of more options. It's builded from standard option button control but instead of true/false it returns an index of selected option. It's usefull when you need many options controls.

This usercontrol is a very interactive replacement for old VB shape control. Interactive just in IDE, the end user of an app gets the nice design only. But the programmer maybe gets the most interactive VB usercontrol ever ;-) ! Adjust gradient parameters, postions, designs directly on the screen, no need to use the property box for every single value. Thx to Carles P.V. we have fantastic gradients and thx to Lavolpe we have MANY fancy forms for modern screen designs. Anti-aliased circles, endless combinations of colors with shapes are inviting to play arround with. All put together in a selfcontained, ownerdrawn and documented usercontrol (without any subclassing or timers) by Light Templer. Enjoy ;-) _________ UPDATE 1: (1) Fixed the error raised when drop a new control error onto form with 'Break on all Errors' switch activated. (2) Added a VB5 "version" - Its totally the same control just stripped out the usercontrol property VB5 don't have (ClipBehavior). Sorry for just a simple demo form here. _________ UPDATE 2: Rebuild the demo form and added a 2nd (more serious) demo as requested. _________ UPDATE 3: Fixed the problem coming from german VB version (storage format of single var properties in .frm demo file) with a universal small function to get the value in all cases. _________ UPDATE 4: Finally got this strange error of don't working on some systems! A BIG sorry! Now it should be fine on every VB / SP version.

=> VeryWellsStatusBarXP - Sorry folks for my upload mistake! For new release 1.2 (6/10/2003) with fine new feature plz goto ___ http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=45877&lngWId=1 ____ All votes are welcome - thx !

VeryWellsStatusBarXP Update to V. 1.2b - More than a fine usercontrol statusbar in Windows XP, Office XP or much more looks! Very lot of advanced features, also useable as a modern TOOLBAR! Have a look to the screenshot with nine examples and the panels propertypage. Include things like gradients and frames to panels, integration of all kind of controls and many more! We have autosize, spring to contents and alignment for text, alignment for panel pictures, more events, no more need for timer controls ... Sorry for the bugs I did'nt find yet. Tell me and I will fix it soon. If you like my uc come back regulary for updates! ____ New to V.1.2: * 'Bold'-Fontstyle for panels captions and * background pictures for the statusbar! (Now e can do things like skinning ... ). Some bug-fixes, finetuning and removing of no more used code (less is more ;) ) [UPDATE 1.2b: Bug fixes & changes to Pulic defs] ____ UPDATE 1.2c: Fix with ToolTipProperty _____ Regards Light Templer ___=== BTW: VOTES are welcome and motivating ;) - Thanx! === ____

]]] An improved AutoResize Usercontrol [[[ Put this small selfcontained usercontrol to your form, add three chars to the tag property of every control to handle. Ready. Thats all! Based on the very good submission of Hamed Oveisi (look/vote at PSC CodeId=49740) I tried to improve/change some things ('Refactoring' is the trendy word for ;) ): * More possibilities in resizing (look at the 3D lines (frames) ). * No more flickering when forms gets too small. * No more call in the Form_Resize event neccessary. (In fact you didn't need ANY code.) (Ups! Just check out Hamed's last update. He did the same ;) ) * The tag value still can be used for "standard" purposes. (But you will need a (very) litte change in your code, sorry ;( ) * Its faster. * Handling is easier/more straight forward. (Only two simple digits in tag value to enter, not four) * Prepared for handling 'Lines', too. (Not done by me - I don't use lines ;) ) * A var naming convention is used, so code is easier to read/modify. * Demo and description extended. * ... All -(C) Copyleft on 11/10/2003 - Light Templer (LiTe)

This is a routine that add a table to the current selection in a RichTextBox. I didn't find how can I do this on the web, so I made it by looking on the rtf Specification. I expect that this would be helpfull for those who are using RTB. If you find how to fix the problems i found please send me your work. (Sorry for my english ;) )

Candy Button - is a nice button that can look like XP button, XP Toolbar button, Cristal (OSX) and IceBlock (Based on Cristal) all buttons can have Checked/Unchecked state. Use it if you like, I have seen some buttons here that are forbidden for commercial use and I think it's absurd!! This is a small gift to this community. Features *Small api usage (only 4 apis) *4 different styles Some votes wouldn't be bad! ;) -------------------------------------------------- Updates: Now is Subclassed!!!!(No Timer) *Code was sorted and reduced *Drawing now is faster!!! *Font propertys (thank's Kenneth Foster!) *No more green background, no flickering problem or Click event outside the button Thank's to all for your opinions, suggestions and solutions!!!(and of course for the votes!) (now around 10 apis are used). Tell me what you think, it was tested only for xp. ------------------------------------------ *Some bugs in design mode fixed (Special thank's to Heriberto and Ken Foster) *Subclass method now sorted (Thank's to Paul Caton for his advise)*Introduced a new button style: Plastic. I hope you like it ;) -------------------------------------------------- News: Some bugs were fixed, speed was really improved (and I mean a lot!), and new properties were added (thanks to Steppenwolfe) Enjoy it! And don't forget to leave a feedback ;) -------------------------------------------------- Small bugs fixed and speed was improved again, know it should be fast for almost any purpose. Check it out!!! :o 1 Last revision for those who could not load the style.