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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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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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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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Owner Draw Combo and List Boxes Version 2.1
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Owner draw combo and list boxes are an excellent way to improve the look and feel of your application. However, there is little support for them in Visual Basic. The only owner-draw combo box supplied is the Checked list box style, but this is a preset list box style with no possibility for customis
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Using ecdClientDrawOnly with the Owner Draw Combo List Box Control
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This article demonstrates how to use the ecdClientDrawOnly mode of the vbAccelerator Owner Draw and Combo List Box control to draw completely customised Combo Boxes (note that exactly the same technique applies for List Boxes as well). The sample provides three useful implementations - a line picker
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Media Progress Bar Renderer
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Windows Media Player has a neat progress bar showing how its getting on whilst burning files to CD or other long operations. This article presents a reusable class which draws a progress bar in a similar presentation. The resulting bar can be drawn to anything that exposes an hDC, and therefore can
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vbAccelerator Progress Bar Class
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This article provides a class that allows you to draw progress bars onto any control, form or API created object with a hDC property. The drawing code is derived from the vbAccelerator Progress Bar control and all functionality except Image Processing and persistence of data is included.
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vbAccelerator Progress Bar Control
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This control provides a highly flexible Progress Bar control with an array of drawing styles, including XP Style, segmented/non-segmented, bitmap bars and backgrounds and more. Alternatively, if you don't want the convenient packaging and design-time property settings provided by a control, you can
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Button ListBar Control
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The Button ListBar control provides an emulation of the ListBar provided in the Windows Add/Remove Programs window. Under XP it uses the UxTheme API to draw parts of the toolbar, and degrades to use standard GDI drawing calls when used on earlier OS versions.
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vbAccelerator ListBar Control
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The vbAccelerator ListBar control is an all-VB control which emulates the Outlook sidebar as accurately as possible. I was inspired to write it when I started playing with Microsoft's Spy++ utility and pointed it at Outlook's list bar (or "ShortcutBar" as it publicises itself to the world) and notic
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vbAccelerator Visual Studio Style ToolBox ListBar
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This control provides a full implementation of a Visual Studio-style List Bar which holds lists of controls. Bars and items can be dragged around the control, and items can be dragged, pressed or double-clicked to add the item to an object.
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vbAccelerator No Status Bar Control
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This article provides a small class which implements all of the StatusBar functionality you're likely to need in an application with none of the distribution headaches associated with a control. The latest version supports XP Style drawing and frankly looks quite great.
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vbAccelerator Status Bar Control
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This article provides a full implementation of the ComCtl32 status bar control in VB, providing access to all of the features including Owner-Drawn panels.
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vbAccelerator ListView Control
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This control provides an alternative to the VB ListView control and adds support for almost all of the new ComCtl32.DLL v6.0 features that are missing from the VB version: ListView grouping, Tile view with configurable sub-items, Multiple Work Areas and more.
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ComCtl32 Header Control
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This article provides a fully-featured Header Control directly from COMCTL32.DLL. The latest version uniquely provides support for Outlook-style drag-drop grouping of columns as well as in place column filtering.
It is a good building block for generating your own controls. Check out the S-Grid
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