Designer Widgets - (v. 2.x)

Designer Widgets is designed to give your applications interfaces similar to those of today's most popular commercial applications. They are supplied as version 3 16-bit Visual Basic Custom Controls (.VBX), and 16-bit and 32-bit ActiveX Controls. Designer Widgets is loaded with the most enhanced interface controls, including Dockable Toolbar, the Notebook Tab Control, the Index Tab Control and FormFX. There is no other package that combines controls that allow you to program with the style and power of Designer Widgets.

The Dockable Toolbar control lets you create floating toolbars of buttons that the user can 'dock' to the top, sides or bottom of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) form. When toolbars are not docked, the user can resize and reshape the 'floating' palette as needed. This gives users the flexibility to customize the work area to suit their working habits. Creating toolbars of multiple buttons is as simple as placing a Dockable Toolbar control on a form and using the Toolbar Layout Editor to set the number of buttons and assign button attributes.

Designer Widgets now gives you the ability to place other controls such as combo boxes or labels on the Dockable Toolbar. All the properties that you can define for a button like the ToolTip to display or a description for your status bar can easily be defined for each child control on the toolbar as well. The result is it will be easier for you to give your applications the features that make your users more productive.

In addition, the ToolbarFloating property gives you the ability to have a toolbar float even if the toolbar is not used on an MDI form. Also, the ToolbarOrientation property allows you to place a toolbar vertically or horizontally oriented on any form, making it possible to align the toolbar to the left, right, top or bottom of your form. And collections have been added to the Toolset, Tool, and Button properties in order to take full advantage of new host syntax.

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