A package of standard and unique skinable VCL's for professional UI design development using "AlphaSkins". AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique. - Skinning of standard and 3rd-party components and over 80 own controls which are optimized for using with skins and have own additional features - System dialogs automatic skinning - Skinable forms (SDI & MDI) and menus - Possibility of components using without skins - Native support of PNG files, own TsAlphaImageList component - Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects - Support of packed and unpacked skins - Easy embedding of any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment - The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time - Style Hints control make hints to be displayed alpha-blended and you can choose from many ways to display (PNG templates are supported) - Added caption properties for position and rendering - Mouse event added provide great possiblities - Easy and powerfull skin-engine supports of internal and external skins, one type of control can have some kinds in skin. All drawings (patterns except) supports of alpha-masks - Controlling of application skin from one point (TsSkinManager) - Original fast algorithms of drawings, many graphical and other functions in the package library - Designing in design-time in IDE - Ready-to-use skins with possibility for expanding and own skins developing - Animation effects in some controls - Frames full automatic support - Forms with shadows and translucent borders - Unicode support if TntControls or BDS 2009 used - Working with the components is very easy. AlphaControls 2009 is licensed as shareware, the cost of the registered version is $100 and full download size is 24.62 MB. You can download a free version of AlphaControls 2009 by following download link at Free Downloads section of this page. AlphaControls 2009 is developed or distributed by ArtTech software and is listed under development components & libraries.
