vbAccelerator New and Updated PublicationsThe latest articles and updates published at vbAccelerator.comUpdated: vbAccelerator Visual Studio Style Tab Control- April 27, 2003 This control reimplements the tab drawing code used in the vbAccelerator MDITabs Control as a fully-featured Visual Studio style Tab Control, with a fully-typed object interface. It also supports pinning and unpinning tabs, so when they're unpinned they show a small vertical tab-bar which slides-out the tab to the display. Cool!http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Tab_Controls/Visual_Studio_Style_Tab_Contro... Updated: ComCtl32 Header Control- April 27, 2003 This article provides a fully-featured Header Control directly from COMCTL32.DLL. The latest version uniquely provides support for Outlook-style drag-drop grouping of columns as well as in place column filtering. It is a good building block for generating your own controls. Check out the S-Grid project to see the control in use in an all-VB grid control (new version with auto-grouping coming end of April!)http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Utility_Controls/Header_Control/article.asp New: RSS Validator- April 25, 2003 The RSS specification isn't particularly complicated but it can be nice to get some sort of check that you've created something that works, particularly as there doesn't appear to be a DTD or Schema you can use for validation. This useful service checks an RSS file and provides you with a downloadable stamp of approval (if that's the sort of thing you want) when you pass.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/Other/RSS_Validator/article.asp New: Resampling with Alpha- April 25, 2003 If you want to change the size of a bitmap, you quickly find that standard techniques such as GDI's StretchBlt aren't particularly good and the result is usually very pixelated. Resampling is a technique which smooths the contribution of each pixel whilst changing the size, and although it takes more computation it provides a vastly better output. However, if you're trying to resize a bitmap with a transparent area, resampling can cause problems too because it tends to pull the "transparent"..http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/vbMedia/DIB_Sections/Resampling_With_Alpha/article.a... New: .NET Button ListBar Control- April 23, 2003 The Button ListBar control provides an emulation of the ListBar provided in the Windows AddRemove Programs window. Under XP it uses the UxTheme API to draw parts of the toolbar, and degrades to use standard GDI drawing calls when used on earlier OS versions. Both C and VB.NET versions of the same code are provided.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/NET/Code/Controls/ListBar/Button_List_Bar/article.asp New: vbAccelerator Office Docking Bar Control- April 23, 2003 This control provides a new container for the vbAccelerator Toolbar and CoolMenu control which allows controls to be docked and undocked to the side of any form. It emulates the style of the Office XP toolbars and provides full support for saving and restoring the layout of the toolbars. It can also be used as a more flexible alternative to the Rebar control.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Toolbar/vbAccelerator_Office_Docking_Bar/ar... Updated: PopupMenu DLL - Create Unlimited Popup Menus- April 23, 2003 The PopupMenu (cNewMenu.dll) ActiveX DLL is allows you to create completely new popup menus with icons for your application. Menus created using this control either can be used as normal Windows Context menus or can be attached to a vbAccelerator CoolMenu and ToolBar control to be used as a form menu within a toolbar. PopupMenu supports all of the latest Menu UI features: showing and hiding infrequently used items, Office XP menu drawing styles, menus which stay open when you click them and..http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Menus/Popup_Menu_ActiveX_DLL/article.asp Updated: vbAccelerator Toolbar and CoolMenu Control v3.5- April 23, 2003 This control allows you to create modern UIs like Internet Explorer or Word with full colour-depth toolbars, CoolMenus, resizable and movable toolbar bands, controls in the toolbar and much more. It works with standard forms and MDI forms and also allows you to create Outlook-style MDI applications by hiding the MDI-child window control buttons.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Toolbar/vbAccelerator_ToolBar_and_CoolMenu_... New: WencoMine- April 23, 2003 WencoMine develop realtime GPS dispatch software systems for large open pit minesites. Their MineVision product uses a collection of vbAccelerator code and techniques to provide realtime equipment tracking and graphical database editing for mining equipment.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/The_Site/vbAccelerator_Users/WencoMine/article.asp New: Resource Hacker- April 22, 2003 Resource Hacker is the classic freeware tool for viewing, modifying, renaming adding, deleting and extracting resources from Windows executables and libraries. Definitely worth having so you can play around with luna.msstyles and have a peek at what's going on most classic PE executables and libraries.http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resources/Links/Other/ResHacker/article.asp |