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Hierarchy Selector Control
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The Hierarchy Selector control is an enhanced COMCTL32.OCX TreeView control which allows you to easily create option dialogs like the Win98 Folder Options dialog and the Internet Explorer Advanced option dialog. In addition to this, it also provides methods which allow you display a hierarchy of opt
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Transparent AVI Player Control
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The Animation control supplied with VB (and from various other VB websites) is derived from the implementation within COMCTL32.DLL. However, this implementation only allows you to play AVIs with no audio stream. Also, its idea of transparency isn't quite what you might expect: setting an AVI to tran
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ComCtl32.DLL Animation Control Class
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This article presents a simple class you can use to load AVIs from files or an application's resource file for display whilst the application is performing a long operation.
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vbAccelerator Explorer Bar Control
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The vbAccelerator Explorer Bar control is a new control entirely written in VB which provides a user interface like the one in Windows Explorer under XP. You can use it to create handy lists of shortcuts and informational panels, or you can incorporate controls into the panels to provide flexible an
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Office/VS.NET Style Flat Combo Boxes
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This project provides a class which subclasses Combo Boxes and other controls so that they draw in a flat style and highlight when the mouse is over or they are in focus. The class works on all types of Combo and ComboBoxEx controls as well as on TextBoxes and PictureBoxes. By default, the Office 10
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vbAccelerator ComboBoxEx Control
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This article presents an implementation of the Common Controls ComboBoxEx control from scratch in Visual Basic. Although this control is available with some versions of VB, this version provides a number of enhancements including pre-built styles (drive picking, font picking, colour picking) and hel
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Creating ListView Style Groups with SGrid 2
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This sample demonstrates how to use owner-draw to customise the appearance of grouping rows, and to ensure that they remain open in the style of the Windows XP ListView in grouped mode. It also demonstrates adding new rows to a grouped grid and moving them to the correct position given the current s
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S-Grid 2.0 Features
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This article provides a rundown of the new features and updates provided in S-Grid 2.0, and also shows samples of the types of displays that can be set up using the control.
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SGrid 2.0
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SGrid 2.0 is an updated version of the popular SGrid control which adds drag-drop hierarchical grouping, owner-draw cells and many other features. It has the same highly-optimised display code but is now further enhanced by much better sort, row insert and delete performance. It remains a great alte
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vbAccelerator CommandBar Control
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The vbAccelerator CommandBar control is a full toolbar/menu control which currently offers configurable styles, colours and a full-object model for configuring the buttons and menus. The control can draw in Office 2003, Office XP, MS Money and System styles, supports icons with alpha-channels and ru
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WinZip UI Style Sample
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This sample demonstrates using the CommandBar controls to create a WinZip-style user interface. It shows how to set up an Image List to read images from a resource-only DLL and picking icons with the correct colour depth for the host system. It also demonstrates using a context menu to customise the
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QuickStart - Creating an IE Toolbar
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Describes how to use the vbAccelerator CommandBar control by demonstrating how to create a toolbar which looks like the Internet Explorer main toolbar.
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MS Money UI Style Sample
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This sample demonstrates using the vbAccelerator CommandBar control to create an MS Money style UI. The CommandBar control is used to provide an MS Money style menu, toolbar and status bar, as well as providing dynamic colourisation for other images used in the UI.
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vbAccelerator Toolbar and CoolMenu Control v3.5
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This control allows you to create modern UIs like Internet Explorer or Word with full colour-depth toolbars, CoolMenus, resizable and movable toolbar bands, controls in the toolbar and much more. It works with standard forms and MDI forms and also allows you to create Outlook-style MDI applications
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vbAccelerator Office Docking Bar Control
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This control provides a new container for the vbAccelerator Toolbar and CoolMenu control which allows controls to be docked and undocked to the side of any form. It emulates the style of the Office XP toolbars and provides full support for saving and restoring the layout of the toolbars. It can also
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PopupMenu DLL - Create Unlimited Popup Menus
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The PopupMenu (cNewMenu.dll) ActiveX DLL is allows you to create completely new popup menus with icons for your application. Menus created using this control either can be used as normal Windows Context menus or can be attached to a vbAccelerator CoolMenu and ToolBar control to be used as a form men
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IconMenu Control
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The IconMenu (cPopMenu.ocx) control is a really simple way to get icons into a VB project's menus. It also allows you to create arbitrary new submenus, gives you control over the system menu and has some useful new events indicating when menu items are highlighted and exited.
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vbAccelerator IconMenu DLL
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There are various controls for drawing menus with icons in at this site (and some code for doing the same sort of thing elsewhere). But so far these objects and code have been quite difficult to implement. This happens because these objects provide support for creating arbitrary menus at runtime - s
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PopupMenu - Transparent Menu Demonstration
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All Windows controls provide a facility to show context menus when the user right clicks on the control through the WM_CONTEXTMENU message. VB doesn't provide a way to interact with this message however, so if you want to replace the default context menu on a TextBox, or to provide a custom context
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PopupMenu - Context Menu Demonstration
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All Windows controls provide a facility to show context menus when the user right clicks on the control through the WM_CONTEXTMENU message. VB doesn't provide a way to interact with this message however, so if you want to replace the default context menu on a TextBox, or to provide a custom context
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Using Popup Menu ActiveX DLL to create SysTray Menus with Icons
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This sample shows how to use the newly introduced ShowPopupAbsolute method of the PopupMenu ActiveX DLL to implement a icon menu in the SysTray.
The code expands upon the "SysTray the Easy Way" sample. Essentially this project uses a VB form as a class which exposes an easy to use interface for a
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Using the cNewMenu DLL to Create Start Menu/ICQ Style Pop-up Menus
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The PopupMenu ActiveX DLL let's you create an unlimited number of cool-looking pop-up menus in your application, but what to do in the unlikely event that even that's not cool enough for you? The new version gives you this control too. The OwnerDraw property, which applies to each menu item allows y
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Owner-Draw Pop-up Menus
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This project provides sample code for creating completely owner-drawn pop-up menu items using the PopupMenu ActiveX DLL. If you want to create a drop-down list of items from your control, and the number of items will fit onto the screen, then using this DLL to manage all the drop-down functions exce
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Using The IconMenu Control To Create a Colour Picker
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This project demonstrates how to use the new Caption shortcuts in the Icon Menu control to create multiple column menus which don't have separators. By adding the hat character ("^") to the beginning of a menu caption, the Icon Menu control will start a new menu column without a separator line. (Use
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vbAccelerator ImageList Control and Class v2.0
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As a number of my controls require image list support (Rebar and Toolbar control, Tab Control, S-Grid, Icon Menu Control, ActiveX Popup Menu DLL, Owner Drawn ComboEx Control and the Owner Drawn Combo and List box Control), it was about time I provided an Image List control to support them, so you do
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Displaying Alpha (32bit) Icons with ImageLists
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Version 6 of ComCtl32.DLL (shipped with Windows XP) supports icons with alpha channels. This article describes how you can use icons with alpha channels with the vbAccelerator Image Lists.
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Custom Drag-Drop Images Using ImageLists
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The standard VB drag-drop functionality provides a cursor to indicate that a drag-drop function is in progress. This article demonstrates how to add an image of the object being dragged to the drag-drop control, in the same way that Explorer does using the ImageList APIs.
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vbAccelerator TreeView Control
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This article provides a new TreeView control that provides an alternative to the standard version provided with VB. Enhancements include much wider support for item colours and formatting, better drag-drop support including node auto-expand and scrolling, styles to support numbering items and an IE-
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