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Studio Controls for COM updated

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:56:56 GMT

Studio Controls provides a wide range of UI controls.

New additions allow discrete interaction with Outlook Bar list attributes.

Studio Controls for COM includes royalty-free ActiveX controls for Outlook style scheduling, snap-in Windows application design, data entry and components for intuitive UI design.

Updates in V1.3

Combo - Header Border Color, Header Shadow Color, Header Style and enumHeaderStyle enumeration.
DropDate - Updated navigation to view months when a fill date is clicked in the drop calendar.
ExplorerBar - ListCtrlID, Selected Item and Selected List . These property additions allow for discrete interaction and presentation with Outlook list attributes.
HTML - Suppress all dialogs that a web browser control may generate. In some cases, this is useful, because it can help ensure a "quiet" user experience without unexpected popups.
ListBar - Select Back Color To, Select Fill Type, Select Rounded Edge value added to the enum Select Type enumeration. These properties have been added to enhance Windows 7 style presentations.
Month - Synchronize data to be displayed for the current month presentation.
Tips - Vista value added to enum Tips Type enumerations. Enhances newer Windows style presentations.
ToolBar - Selected Drop Menu items now use an enhanced fill system allowing for improved 3D and Windows 7 presentations.

About DBI Technologies

Incorporated in 1996, DBI Technologies is a commercial software development company that is focused on empowering Windows application developers with flexible and respected commercial component products and services. DBI provides creative solutions for its clients, incorporating leading edge Web technologies built on commercial component based architectures. DBI's component solutions are incorporated in many Fortune 1000 business support systems, as well as commercial ERP and CRM solutions.

Studio Controls for COM adds Zune Black style

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:23:20 GMT

Studio Controls provides a wide range of UI controls.

Version 1.2 also improves ctGrid Progress Bar, ctCalendar printed report functionality and ctList sub text formatting.

Studio Controls for COM includes royalty-free ActiveX controls for Outlook style scheduling to snap-in Windows application design, data entry and presentation including components for intuitive UI design. Integrating standards based component software in project development advances the time to market while offering application development a whole new set of features at a fraction of the cost.

Updates in V1.2

ctCalendar (v6.0)

BeforeWeekSummaryPaint event added to enable changing of the Week Summary text through the WeekSummaryText property
New Zune Black control style
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2) and
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

ctDayView (v3.0.0.1)

Enhancement to the OnMouseWheel event enabling mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry
New Zune Black control style.
An AppointmentForeColor property has been added allowing greater custom style setting by the developers.
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2).
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)

ctGrid (v5.0)

Progress Bar - Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include: height, from color and to color, and fill type.
Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
A new vertical edge fill type has been added (VertEdge2)
Style properties have been enhanced for Windows 7 presentations including: HeaderOverFillType, HeaderOverBackColorTo, PreColumnFillType, and PreColumnBackColorTo
Header arrows now have an additional setting for 'solid'
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

ctList (v9.0)

Progress Bar - Column data types can now be set to a "Progress Bar" style. Progress Bars will take a value of 0-100. Properties available on the Progress Bars include: height, from color and to color, and fill type.
Sub Text formatting enhancement - a new SubTextBackColor property allows for Coloring of the background area of all the subtext areas. TheSubTextBackColor property is set to Clear by default
Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based) and the Pre-Column is set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.
Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

ctTree (v10.0)

A new addition to ctTree includes Hit test methods for ColumnAt and ItemAt (1 based), and a Pre-Column set to return a value of 0.
Enhanced printed report functionality allowing Page Numbers to be toggled (turned off/on)
New SelectedBackColorTo, SelectedFillType, NoFocusBackColorTo and NoFocusBorderColor properties have been added replacing the FocusType property (backward compatibility has been maintained) to allow greater control over focus and item selected border coloring.
A new DrawFocus property has been added to enhance presentation of focus given to a selected node with a dotted focus line.
New sorting methods - FindFirstSelected and FindNextSelected methods have been added.
New Header styling properties - NodeHeaderBackColor, NodeHeaderBackColorTo, and NodeHeaderFillType properties are now available
Added, Windows 7 fill styles for Rounded Borders. Selected items now use a 2 pass fill system that allows the fill and the border to have an enhanced 3D presentation.
Mouse Wheel enhancement - the OnMouseWheel event enables the mouse wheel values to be read from the Registry

About DBI Technologies

Incorporated in 1996, DBI Technologies Inc. is a commercial software development company that is focused on empowering Windows application developers with the most flexible and respected commercial component products and services. DBI is recognized for its technical and pre-sales support for its customers working in any Microsoft development environment from Office to HTML. An industry leader in the implementation of component based application development, DBI provides creative solutions for its clients, incorporating leading edge Web technologies built on commercial component based architectures. DBI's Component::Solutions are incorporated in many Fortune 1000 business support systems, as well as commercial ERP and CRM solutions.

Studio Controls for COM updated

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:41:00 GMT

Studio Controls provides a wide range of UI controls.

Version 1.1 adds support for Windows 7, plus new multi-split presentation control.

Studio Controls for COM is a complete set of scheduling, data input, data presentation, dialogue, calendar, and navigation software components for COM technologies developers. It includes sample applications, plus one full year of technical support, updates and product upgrades.

Updates in V1.1

Studio Controls for COM v1.1 is now certified and supported on Windows 7.
ctPanel
New to Studio Controls for COM. ctPanel is a multi-splitter presentation providing up to four individual panels with an optional title ideal for form real estate management. Each panel's contents can be programmatically controlled by the developer in its resize event. ctPanel is fully capable of rendering any other ActiveX objects or native IDE objects (when hosted inside a ctFrame control). ctPanel has been designed to work together with other component objects for developers wanting to create award winning application interface designs simply and quickly.
ctDayView
Updated with ColumnAt method and TimeAt method - ideal for identifying specific location of cursor and/or defining specific location by coordinates.
ctDEdit
Upgraded with Plus/Minus notation. Entering + or - and a value when running the control in numeric format will increment/decrement the current value of the control by the number of days entered.
ctDropDate
Upgraded with Plus/Minus notation. Entering + or - and a value when running the control in numeric format will increment/decrement the current value of the control by the number of days entered.
ctList
Upgraded List Headers with Border Colors, new Header Style properties - including specific style settings for header over; selected items - styles and fill types; pre-column alignment - aligns text, images etc. contained in the pre-column.
ctTree
New sort arrow color, sort arrow type; upgraded ctTree Headers - Border Colors, new Header Style properties - including specific styles settings for header over.
ctToolBar
New foreground color added allowing developers to Return/set the foreground color of a tool bar button.

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