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SmartToolEngine is an ActiveX component allowing you to improve your application interface by including customizable WinXP like style menus, toolbars and popups. SmartToolEngine control uses only native Win32 mechanisms and does not exploit any third-parties code. The distribution package includes the utility for creating interface structures interactively and a code generator.
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ActiveX for creating and managing modern style menus, toolbars and popups.)
SmartToolEngine is a good-optimized high-performance ActiveX component for creating and managing WinXP like style window menus, toolbars, popup menus and context menus with various appearance styles.
Features Summary
Tools Support
- Automatic support of group and state buttons
- Embedded calendar tool and combo box tool
- Extended tooltips. Specify both text and caption for the tooltip
- Captioned separator in popup
- Support of up to five different pictures, each one for every possible state of toolbar buttons
- Multiple shortcuts per one tool
- Label tool
- Automatic image generation
Popup Menus and Toolbars
- Personalized menus
- Context menus
- Popup toolbars
- Toolbars locking
Developer Framework
- Full Unicode support
- Tool Inspector Utility. Allows you to create application interface easily
- STE Code Generator Utility. Let it do the most elaborating part of the job for you
- Comprehensive programmer's reference
- Illustrative sample projects. The set of sample projects works as "how to" reference on the product
- More than a hundred of commonly used icons are shipped with the developer suite.
Appearance
- Two different modern styles
- Color and Font. Change these settings easily according to the overall application interface idea
- Up to five different images per one button or menu item
- Original toolbars behaviour model
Object Model
- Rich object model allows to manage the application's interface in natural manner
- Centralized tool management provides an easy way to handle corresponding buttons and popup menu items as one object
Performance
- High speed and correct system resources usage
- Environment friendly
Compatible Containers:
Compatible with all software development environments that support ActiveX.
Has been tested on:
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
- Microsoft Office 2000/2003
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