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

Build sophisticated runtime reports or technical drawings. ViewPro is a dynamic report generator for building reports or drawings that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a static report writer. It lets you place tables, graphs, pictures, and drawings onto text report pages, and allows you to visually or programmatically edit or modify reports that have been already generated at runtime. This allows you to generate reports that are unknown until being customized at runtime.

Add customizable toolbars and menus to your applications. AceToolbar is an ActiveX component for creating a variety of active toolbars and menus that can emulate the look and feel of Internet Explorer CoolBar, Office 97 toolbars, and others. It can also be used as a versatile button control or serve as a transparent bitmap button control. Features include: arbitrary toolbar button shapes, support for MouseOver events, IE-style drop-down menus for toolbar buttons, and more.

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.

Develop interactive map applications. LiveMap is an ActiveX component that allows you to create any type of map interfaces that you would like your users to interact with. It includes samples of USA maps ready to be included into your applications. LiveMap allows you to: create irregularly shaped hotspot regions, detect mouse events for hotspots with automatic highlighting, assign labels and bitmap icons to hotspots, and change attributes such as color, fill style, etc. at runtime.

Create intuitive and interactive multimedia graphical user interfaces. XRosyGUI supports irregularly shaped buttons and hotspots as well as graphical instrumentation elements such as sliders, gauges, meters, and knobs, and allows you to create any type of intuitive interfaces that you would like your users to interact with. It can simulate any interactive scenes and objects, from a map, a factory layout or a shopping center to an instrumentation panel or home/office devices.