Drawing / Visual Basic (Controls & Components, Tools & Add-ins)

Create, edit, design, and display bitmaps. ActivePicture allow you to visually or programmatically create bitmap images. It also allows you to perform a variety of bitmap-related tasks such as processing bitmaps, developing runtime bitmap designers, creating click-able, embedded bitmaps for interactive and intuitive user interfaces, displaying active, virtual instruments - such as gauges, meters, knobs, etc., and more.

Give your application support for the creation, editing, and displaying of Metafiles. MetaDraw is a special purpose picturebox/image editing component. To your application, it looks like a standard picturebox, but it offers unique support for metafiles - a graphical format well suited to the drawing and/or moving of graphical objects - including the ability to tag individual graphic objects for HyperGraphic/HotSpot applications. Use as a metafile viewer with support for zoom and scroll.

Add comprehensive imaging functionality into your applications. Graphics Mill 2.0 is a set of powerful, fast and memory-friendly components which resolve most image processing requirements: load/save files of most popular formats, enhance, transform, display, reduce colors, combine images, draw imagery, etc. It includes a handy control which allows you to zoom, pan, scroll image, select areas of the image and so on. Graphics Mill 2.0 also allows you to apply color management (using ICM 2.0), so you can handle CMYK images gracefully.

Create, edit and manipulate a variety of image types to enhance your applications. ImageKit7 is a component that allows you to add image-processing functionality to your applications quickly and easily. Retrieve images from TWAIN scan devices; load and save image files; edit, display, and print images; draw shapes and text on images; display images as thumbnails or in slideshows. Most of the ImageKit7 functionality is available in DLL style API. The ImageKit7 ActiveX component can be used in Visual Studio .NET via COM wrapper. .NET sample programs are included.

Give your application support for the creation, editing, and displaying of Metafiles. MetaDraw is a special purpose picturebox/image editing component. To your application, it looks like a standard picturebox, but it offers unique support for metafiles - a graphical format well suited to the drawing and/or moving of graphical objects - including the ability to tag individual graphic objects for HyperGraphic/HotSpot applications. Use as a metafile viewer with support for zoom and scroll.