IntegralUI Studio

What's New in IntegralUI Studio 2011 Vol2:

• New controls: Panel and TransparentPanel, presents a containers with gradient fill of its background and custom border appearance
• Option to fix items on top or bottom side in ListBox and TreeView, which can act like header and footer
• A DisplayMode property for items which will enable for an item to act as a separator in the list
• Option to embed new control: RatingControl which can use custom images to show rating values, includes star image as default
• Improved data load/save in TreeView with ability to load on demand data from large xml files or streams, which will provide instant control update
• Option to place child node above or below its parent node in TreeView and TreeListView controls
• A new ShowRootLines property which shows root lines even if there are no child nodes
• New method: IsChildOf, which determines whether a node is child of a specified node
• New method: GetPreferredSize, which returns the calculates and returns the actual size of node space

What's New in IntegralUI Studio 2011 Vol1:

• New control: RichContentControl which can present multiple pages of various objects arranged in custom layouts using HTML tags
• New control: RatingControl which can use custom images to show rating values, includes star image as default
• New control: NumberedListControl presents a numbered list of items acting like navigation panel
• Option to show items in ListView in Card view
• Option to align expand box in groups in ListView
• Option to fix items on top or bottom side in ListBox and act like header and footer
• Option to extend the current theme with custom colors for all controls
• A style for drawing subitems when they are focused
• Selection from keyboard using CTRL or SHIFT for all list controls
• Option to add space between tabs and tabstrip edge
• A new constructor for all list controls which accepts String and creates a default item with text
• Option to embedd Rating control in all list controls
• Serialization of images from ImageList in xml file

What's New in IntegralUI Studio 2010 Vol2:

• Option to show tabs in hierarchy with ability to be shown in different sides. For this purpose the following properties are added:
  • TabStripPlacement, for each page to determine the side on which page tab will be shown
  • UseParentTabStripPlacement, which determines whether page can have their own setting of side or from its parent TabControl
  • Pages, a collection of child pages added to this page
  • ParentPage, determines the parent page of the current page in hierarchy
  • Expanded, determines whether page will show its child pages
  • FlatList, a collection which holds all pages in linear mode. Best used for cycling through all pages
  • CurrentList, a collection of all pages that are currently scrollable in the TabControl. All hidden pages or pages that their parent is collapsed are not contained in this collection.
  • ShowOnMultipleSides, determines whether pages can be shown in different sides simultaneously
  • Option to show navigation buttons for all sides with hierarchical tabs
• RightToLeft supported. Now tabs can be shown starting from right side and continuing to the left direction. Or from bottom to top.
• Remove method to easy deleting the page from its parent collection
• The TabControl designer is updated and now you can create hierarchical structure of TabPages from VS designer.
• Pixel-based scrolling enabled for ListBox, TreeListView and TreeView controls
• New Key property in ObjectEventArgs, used to uniquely identify different objects
• Fully compatible with Visual Studio 2010
• The Key which specifies the text from XML content is carried with the editing events
• A built-in root node which will be used as parent for first level nodes and which retrieve the control Nodes collection
• IsRoot property which determines whether a node is the root node
• ItemObjectClicked and ContentObjectClicked events now carry also the MouseButtons
• Mouse wheel supported in ComboBox, ListControl and NumericUpDown controls
• EnsureVisible method for subitems. Using it will position the specified subitem to the center of the current view.
• Retrieving a subitem by its Key

What's New in IntegralUI Studio 2010:

• Great performance improvement during data load and control layout update
• Partially visible controls remain active
• RightToLeft support for TreeView control
• New XML attributes
  • assemblypath and resource for img tag, used to get references from emebedded resources
  • selectedtextcolor for style tag, used for changing the color of text when selected
  • r tag for regular font
  • id for most tags, used to identify specific object
• Option to separately show/hide the scrollbars
• Option to create unique appearance of scrollbars using textures
• Four color styles for every state of the scrollbars
• CurrentList property, represents a flat list of all nodes that are currently visible and filtered
• Alignment of expand box, check box, state image and item icon
• EnsureVisible with option to choose the item position
• ItemSelectionChanged even which notifies when node changes its selection
• Option to edit nodes and subitems created with rich content. Also editing of specific text part.
• Option to determine which columns can be edited
• UpdateCurrentView, a new method with which only objects in current display area of the control are updated. Efficient fro example when specific subitem changes its visibility or to automatically resize the node/subitem height when contained control changes its size.
• Margin, a new property in format style of the node, with which you can change the space between other nodes. Now every node can have different distance from other nodes
• Multiline tabs
• Option to create tabs with rich content: text, images and hyperlinks in custom layouts
• Predefined and Custom DragDrop operations
• Content of page tab can be divided in multiple lines when resized
• Option to change the color of drop marker

What's new in IntegralUI Studio 2009 Vol2?

• 8 new built-in controls which can be used as a standalone and inside list controls using XML tags:
  CheckBox, ComboBox, DateTimePicker, ListControl, MonthCalendar, NumericUpDown, ProgressBar, TextControl
• Advanced filter which allows data to be filtered by multiple values using AND, OR criteria and exact or prefix match
• XML Serialization for controls and images
• Improved performance during load process
• ApplyFocusStyle, a property which enables/disables FocusStyle for items. Useful during multi-selection
• Option to show tree hierarchy in flat mode
• Option to create XML content with images embedded in resource files
• Option to navigate through subitems
• Events for notification when column resizes
• Events for notification when values of subitems changes
• Edit when using XML tags for text in different locations (automatic and programmatically)
• LabelEditStyle for customization of edit box during item content editing
• PreserveVisibility, a property used to preserve visibility of items when required

IntegralUI Studio features the following advanced .NET controls:

• Bar
• CheckBox
• ComboBox
• DateTimePicker
• Expander
• Group
• ListBox
• ListControl
• ListView
• MonthCalendar
• NumberedListControl
• NumericUpDown
• Page
• Panel
• ProgressBar
• RatingControl
• RichContentControl
• SplitContainer
• TabControl
• TabDockContainer
• TextControl
• TransparentPanel
• TreeListView
• TreeView

 Docking Windows and Tabbed Documents Management

• Advanced Docking Windows management system
• Tab Control and Tabbed MDI solution in one place
• Rendering interface with five Visual Styles
• Four style for Appearance and functionality of tool and document windows
• Manage advanced layouts on a form, like the one in Visual Studio .NET
• Group several tool windows in one container, displayed with tabs
• Tear off tabs from tool or document windows to create floating windows
• Collapse tool windows in AutoHide Mode on any side of client area
• Multiple Dock-Hint Styles for exact dock location and size when a window is dragged over a potential dock target (RubberBand, TranslucentClone and TranslucentFill)
• Reposition docked windows quick and easy with drag/drop
• Each window can be in Static, Docked, Floating and Framed control state
• Tool windows can be programmatically docked anywhere in the layout
• Docking permissions and drag/drop operations for additional control over your application
• TabControl and Tabbed MDI functionality in one place
• Tabbed MDI layout mode with optional display of close, select and scrolling buttons
• Standard MDI with tiled and cascaded windows
• Drag tabbed MDI tabs to create new horizontal or vertical tab groups
• Tabbed MDI documents can be converted in and from tool windows simply with drag/drop
• Reorder tabs with drag/drop
• Render tabs and tabbed MDI in five Visual Styles; OneNote look is easy to achieve
• Three size modes of tabs for great control over their appearance (AutoSized, Compressed and Justified)
• Tabs can be displayed with a disabled style
• Access to the standard Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab methods for switching windows

Advanced Container Controls

• Unique ability to make combination of toolbar and tabs
• Use of command buttons in control header for specific tasks
• Three ways to change the appearance of tab strip: using tabs, collapsing buttons or standard splitter
• Use standard left-right navigation or select the specified tab from a list
• Tabs can be displayed in three modes: AutoSized, Compressed and Justified
• Tabs can contain command buttons for specific tasks
• Choose among 7 predefined shapes of tabs
• Use of animated gifs in each tab
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of tab content
• Tabs can be placed on each side: left, top, right and bottom
• Add buttons, labels and separators to the toolbar in control tab strip
• Toolbar can contain items on left and right side of the tab strip
• Choose how tabs are closed: dispose or hide them
• Option to set the maximum width for longer text
• Each page acts as a docking container
• Each tab can open docking container in horizontal or vertical orientation
• Tabs can be docked on each side: left, top, right and bottom
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of tab content
• Horizontal and vertical orientation of splitter and panels
• High customization of every control part
• Color styles for every state (disabled, hover, normal and selected) of control header, panels, tabs
• Color styles for every state (disabled, hover and normal)  of command buttons
• Customizable border with three shapes: squared, rounded and chamfered
• Fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic

Advanced Data Visualization Controls

Highly customizable appearance

• General color styles for checkboxes, scrollbars and control background
• Different color styles for every state of Columns, Groups and Items
• Styles can be inherited from the parent control
• Appearance of the Columns and Items can be set by custom images or color schemes
• Columns and items can have space between them
• Partial or Full Transparency
• Customizable border with three shapes and control over visibility of each border side
• Office 2007 fading effect with five speed levels
• Watermarks
• Theme support
• Visual Styles: Vista, XP and Classic

Columns

• Every column can have header and footer
• Header of column can contain text and image
• Text of the column header and footer can be formatted by using special XML tags
• Separate color style for each state of the column (Normal, Hovered and Selected state)
• Each column can contain text and image
• Fixing the columns to the left or right side of the control layout
• The width of the column can be fixed
• Permission over column reordering

Groups

• Color and format styles for each group
• Group can be expanded/collapsed
• The group header can have three different appearances

Items

• Separate color style for each state of the item (Normal, Disabled, Hovered, Selected and Focused)
• Each item can contain text, image, checkbox, flag and subitems
• Text of the item and subitems can be formatted by using special XML tags
• Control over item border shapes and visibility
• Item can be visible or hidden
• Every item can be grouped
• Context Menus
• Item text is editable

Behavior

• Multiple item selection
• Arrange items in four list view appearances
• LargeIcon
• List
• SmallIcons
• Details
• Permissions over column reordering, Drag&Drop operations, selection check, hover selection, label edit
• Advanced Drag&Drop operations
• Predefined – items can be reordered showing the reorder position mark
• Custom – create your own Drag&Drop operation
• Advanced sort operations
• Predefined – columns can be sorted by the content value: String, Integer and Double
• Custom – create your own sort operation
• XML encoding
• The columns, groups and items text can contain hyperlinks, substrings with different colors and font
• Text can be shown in multiple lines or paragraphs
• XML serialization
• Support for serialization in files
• Support for serialization in streams, including databases