XXControls - library to develop user interface

By Chib777

Menu Button Print and Preview

• source files - 140 Kb
• Download demo project - 494 Kb

Introduction

XXControls - library to develop user interface.

• easy project linking:
  • static (LIB only),
  • dinamic (DLL+LIB);
• synchronisation of menu colour scheme with current Windows colour scheme,
• support for low depth colour modes.

Menu:

• support for all types of menu (main, system, popup)
• hot change menu style (Office XP, Office 2000, XNET, Default)
• support for icons (16*16, 32*32, 48*48, custom size...)
• support for control sequences t, a (example: MENUITEM "&NewtCtrl+N", MENUITEM "&NewaCtrl+N")
• left-side menu border creation with unlimited drawing capabilities with only single function call

Buttons:

• fully cofigurable buttons with single function call
• button styles (Office XP (border and fill), Office 2000 (border and default fill, or transparency), XNET (border and fill), Default (border and default fill, or transparency) and other)
• support for different icons for buttons for normal and hover states
• support for buttons with multyline text: text become multyline automatically when does not fit to the button width
• "multibutton" buttons opening popup menus
• tooltips of 2 types (standart and balloon)
• bmp-support for 4 states of button
• support for region bmp-based buttons
• support for text colouring for 3 states of button
• support transparecy for control against window background
• support for checkbox and radiobutton
• separate font for 2 states of button (hover and normal)
• support for sound for hover state

Print preview, printing, page setup (XXRichEdit.dll):

• easy usage, only 3 function calls
• printing from RICHEDIT control
  • support for all RICHEDIT control versions
  • automatical print of OLE and other objects
• print from any editor (edit - control, control send you message EM_FORMATRANGE)
• grafic and raster printing from any window
• combined print: anything what can be drawn in GDI context
• automatical multypage preview
• scaling from 10% to 500%
• single mouse click on page pops a tooltip with page number
• double click sets current preview scale to 100%

License

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About the Author

Chib777

Occupation: Web Developer Location: Russian Federation