XXControls - Library to Develop User Interface

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Introduction

XXControls - Library to Develop User Interface

• Easy project linking:
  • static (LIB only)
  • dynamic (DLL+LIB)
• Synchronization of menu colour scheme with current Windows colour scheme
• Support for low depth colour modes

Menu

• Support for all types of menu (main, system, popup)
• Hot change menu style (Office XP, Office 2000,  XNET, Default)
• Support for icons (16*16, 32*32, 48*48, custom size...)
• Support for control sequences \t, \a (example: MENUITEM "&New\tCtrl+N", MENUITEM "&New\aCtrl+N")
• Left-side menu border creation with unlimited drawing capabilities with only single function call

Buttons

• Fully configurable buttons with single function call
• Button styles (Office XP (border and fill), Office 2000 (border and default fill, or transparency), XNET (border and fill), Default (border and default fill, or transparency) and other)
• Support for different icons for buttons for normal and hover states
• Support for buttons with multiline text: text becomes multiline automatically when does not fit to the button width
• "Multibutton" buttons opening popup menus
• Tooltips of 2 types (standard and balloon)
• BMP-support for 4 states of button
• Support for region BMP-based buttons
• Support for text colouring for 3 states of button
• Support transparency for control against window background
• Support for checkbox and radiobutton
• Separate font for 2 states of button (hover and normal)
• Support for sound for hover state

Print preview, printing, page setup (XXRichEdit.dll):

• Easy usage, only 3 function calls
• Printing from RICHEDIT control
  • Support for all RICHEDIT control versions
  • Automatic print of OLE and other objects
• Print from any editor (edit - control, control send you message EM_FORMATRANGE)
• Graphic and raster printing from any window
• Combined print: anything that can be drawn in GDI context
• Automatic multipage preview
• Scaling from 10% to 500%
• Single mouse click on page pops a tooltip with page number
• Double click sets current preview scale to 100%

History

• 15^th January, 2007: Initial post