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- From: knosack@park.uvsc.edu (Kris Nosack)
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- Subject: FAQ: comp.lang.basic.visual VB/Win Shareware VBX List
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- Summary: Listing of Shareware VBX's for Visual Basic for Windows.
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-
- Shareware Custom Controls
-
- 20-Feb-94
- Inaccuricies and editorializing are the sole responsibility of
- Adam Harris (harris@cs.uchicago.edu), who would appreciate any
- corrections or dissenting opinions. Archive names are from
- major ftp sites. Names at your favorite site may vary. All
- prices are in US$ and do not include S&H charges (usually $2-$3).
-
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-
- Alarm
-
- Control: alarm1.vbx Archive: alarm11.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $10.00
- Ver: 1.1
- Keywds: schedule
-
- Triggers events, like the timer, but using specific times rather than
- intervals. Wildcard matching elegantly allows you to trigger events at
- regular intervals (i.e., every 10 minutes).
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-
- BarCode
-
-
- Control: barcod1.vbx Archive: barcod11.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.1
- Keywds: data
-
- Generates bar codes, in 4 different styles. Can be bound to a data
- field.
-
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-
- BmpLst
-
- Control: bmplst1.vbx Archive: bmplst16.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $20.00
- Ver: 1.6
- Keywds: list, graphic
-
- List box with pictures, vertically aligned over a caption.
-
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-
- Calendar
-
- Control: calendar.vbx Archive: vbcal.zip
- Author: Rijnhaave Office Automation Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: calendar
-
- Wierd and buggy date entry box with pop-up calendar. No customization,
- no documentation.
-
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-
- CTLWhWnd
-
- Control: ctlwhwnd.dll Archive: vbhwnd.zip
- Author: Jonathan Zuck Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: api
-
- One function, ControlhWnd, which returns the hWnd for a given control.
-
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-
- EndTask
-
- Control: entask.dll Archive: entask.zip
- Author: Jeff Simms Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: task
-
- Intercepts "End Task" from the Task Manager.
-
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-
- File and Disk Space Info
-
- Control: dfinfo1.vbx Archive: dfinfo14.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.4
- Keywds: disk, file
-
- Two controls provide technical statistics of a drive and extended file
- information, respectively.
-
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-
- File Manager Drag and Drop
-
- Control: fmdrop1.vbx Archive: fmdrop10.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: file, drag-drop
-
- Enables drag and drop of single or multiple files from the File Manager
- or what have you.
-
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-
- Four Controls
-
- Control: <see below> Archive: vb4ctrls.zip
- Author: Jeng Long Jiang Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: graphic, status
-
- Four graphic controls: vmeter.vbx and hmeter.vbx are "flooding" status
- gauge controls; spin.vbx (!) is a spin tool. The best of the lot seems
- to be 3dlabel.vbx, which is actually a button which holds states like a
- toolbar button. No documentation.
-
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-
- FXTools Demo
-
- Control: fximage.vbx Archive: fxtool.zip
- Author: ImageFX Price:
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: demo, graphic
-
- Demo of the FXTools suite of VB controls (fxlabel.vbx and fximage.vbx).
- An impressive collection of wipes, fades, block text, drop shadows, etc.
-
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-
- Grinning Jack Deck
-
- Control: vbcards.dll Archive: vbcards.zip
- Author: Richard R. Sands Price: $0.00
- Ver: 1.01p
- Keywds: game
-
- Provides a bitmap collection of cards, including a joker, and basic card
- API.
-
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-
- GT Icon
-
- Control: gticon.dll Archive: gticon.zip
- Author: George R. Torralba Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: icon, drag-drop
-
- Assigns and retrieves the DragIcon property of controls.
-
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-
- GT List Box
-
- Control: gtlist.vbx Archive: tlstvbx2.zip
- Author: George R. Torralba Price: $15.00
- Ver: 2.0
- Keywds: list, graphic
-
- List box with some extra properties to let you set tab positions,
- control the existance of scroll bars, color items in the list, or
- associate bitmaps with items. [Free for non-commercial use.]
-
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-
- GT Toolbar Kit
-
- Control: gttbar.vbx Archive: gttbar01.zip
- Author: George R. Torralba Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: toolbar, graphic, status
-
- GT Toolbar provides a toolbar button, represented by a cell of a toolbar
- bitmap. Registered users can use the picture property to define their
- own toolbar graphics. (You can't force the button to stay in down
- state, unfortunately.) GT Panel is a stripped down 3d panel useful for
- as a container for toolbars or status boxes.
-
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-
- Ini File Manager
-
- Control: inicon2.vbx Archive: inicon26.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $5.00
- Ver: 2.6
- Keywds: ini
-
- Provides an interface to reading and writing ini files, including
- win.ini, or application specific ini files.
-
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-
- InpOut
-
- Control: inpout.dll Archive: inpout.zip
- Author: Jay Munro Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: io
-
- An INP and OUT replacement, written in assembler and used like the
- QuickBasic routines. Includes source. (For some reason Mr. Munro saw
- fit to include Software Assist's SCFILE package -- the dll is actually
- very small.)
-
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-
- JoyStk
-
- Control: joystk1.vbx? Archive: joystk10.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: io
-
- Provides an interface to up to two joysticks.
-
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-
- MailSlot
-
- Control: mslot1.vbx Archive: mslot10.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $30.00
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: mail
-
- Mail slot interface.
-
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-
- Menu Event
-
- Control: menuev2.vbx Archive: menuev21.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $10.00
- Ver: 2.1
- Keywds: menu, status
-
- Emits menu events while the highlight travels over entries in the menu
- bar, before the _click event is called. Good in combination with
- dynamic status boxes.
-
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-
- Message Blaster
-
- Control: msgblast.vbx Archive: tbox100.zip
- Author: Ed Staffin Price: $0.00
- Ver: 1.1
- Keywds: toolbar, graphic
-
- Provides a floating palette, complete with tiny title bar, which you can
- use in conjunction with an MDI form. Message notification is rather
- crude and hacky.
-
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-
- MhFormScroll
-
- Control: mhfs200.vbx Archive: mhfs200.zip
- Author: MicroHelp Price: $0.00
- Ver: 2.0
- Keywds: scroll
-
- Add scroll bars to a form or a container. Crashed my computer, so I
- don't know if it works.
-
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-
- MListBox
-
- Control: mlistbox.vbx Archive: mlist110.zip
- Author: Mike Warning Price:
- Ver: 1.1
- Keywds: list
-
- Multiple selection list box with ability to find strings, associate
- numeric data with list items, and set tabs with some precision.
- Variable pricing scheme.
-
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-
- MouseWatch
-
- Control: mwatch.dll Archive: mwatch.zip
- Author: User Friendly, Inc. Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: mouse, status
-
- Dynamically tracks mouse position, emitting _KeyDown events to the
- form. Good for dynamic hinting, a la Word Perfect.
-
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-
- OpenDlg
-
- Control: opendlg.vbx Archive: opendl.zip
- Author: Zane Thomas Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: graphic
-
- Does the same thing as cmdialog.vbx.
-
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-
- PBClone Windows Library
-
- Control: pcbwin.dll Archive: pcbwin.zip
- Author: Thomas Hanlin III Price: $19.95
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: math, utility
-
- A suite of utility routines: number of floppy or comm ports, checksums,
- bit operations, etc.
-
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-
- Percentage Bar
-
- Control: percnt2.vbx Archive: percnt23.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $10.00
- Ver: 2.3
- Keywds: graphic, status
-
- Very nice 3D style percentage bar, effectively replacing threed's
- flooding SSPanel. Doesn't have wierd flood types like SSPanel
- (circular, right to left), but does include text color reversal over the
- flood, bevelled floods, and no flashing at all. A much more standard
- look.
-
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-
- Prompt
-
- Control: prompt.vbx Archive: prompt11.zip
- Author: Andrew S. Dean Price: $15.00
- Ver: 1.1
- Keywds: cli
-
- Textbox variant for command-line-style input. Includes argument parsing
- into words and a history capacity.
-
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-
- QCards
-
- Control: qcard.dll Archive: qcard.zip
- Author: Stephen Murphy Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: game
-
- Deck of cards with card support functions. Can work with 2 decks at a
- time, no jokers.
-
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-
- RoText
-
- Control: rotext1.vbx? Archive: vbrotfnt.vbx
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $15.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: label, font, graphic
-
- Provides rotatable labels, TrueType only.
-
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-
- SoundX
-
- Control: soundx1.vbx Archive: soundx12.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $10.00
- Ver: 1.2
- Keywds: matching
-
- Metaphone and Soundex text matching algorithms let you search by phonic
- affinity.
-
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-
- spSound
-
- Control: winsound.dll Archive: spsoun.zip
- Author: Alfred J. Giordano Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: sound
-
- Provides low-level port-based sound routines.
-
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-
- ToolButton
-
- Control: toolbutn.vbx Archive: vbtool20.zip
- Author: Brett Foster Price: $0.00
- Ver: 2.0b
- Keywds: toolbar, help, graphic
-
- Full-feature toolbar buttons, with up to 6 states (for attributes). Use
- your own image and break it into cells of graphic buttons, or use the
- suite of standard buttons. Also includes ContextHelp control (same vbx)
- to assist with help management.
-
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-
- VBCTL3D
-
- Control: vbctl3d.vbx Archive: vb3d.zip (?)
- Author: Bernd Beeks & Jeff Sims Price: $29.00
- Ver: 1.32
- Keywds: graphic
-
- When added to a form, transforms standard controls into embedded, 3d
- controls. Covers labels, message boxes, check boxes, even menus and
- user-specified controls (by class name). Does not allow you to specify
- bevel width or depth.
-
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-
- VBPoint
-
- Control: vbpoint.dll Archive: vbptr.zip
- Author: Jonathan Zuck Price: $0.00
- Ver:
- Keywds: api
-
- Two routines: convert long pointers (LP) to VB strings, and copy strings
- to another address (another LP).
-
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-
- VideoSoft Custom Control Library
-
- Control: vsvbx.vbx Archive: 3dctrls or v
- Author: VideoSoft Price: $45.00
- Ver: 2.2a
- Keywds: matching, graphic
-
- Three controls: 3D Elastic, a smart container which resizes it's
- contents automatically, embeds contained controls in true 3d style, and
- can be nested to provide code-free window splitter bars; Awksome, a text
- parser based on the AWK language; and IndexTab, which groups controls
- with a hypercard looking tabbed notepad.
-
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-
- VTSocket
-
- Control: vtsocket.vbx Archive: vtsocket.zip
- Author: Visual Technology Products Price: $50.00
- Ver: 1.0b
- Keywds: comm
-
- Windows sockets support. Does not support UDP sockets, out of band, or
- broadcasting.
-
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-
- WinSock
-
- Control: vbwsk.vbx Archive: vbwsk01a.zip
- Author: Brian Syme Price: $0.00
- Ver: 0.1a
- Keywds: comm
-
- Provides access to Windows Sockets API.
-
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-
- ZipInf
-
- Control: zipinf1.vbx Archive: zipinf10.zip
- Author: Mabry Software Price: $10.00
- Ver: 1.0
- Keywds: compress
-
- Provides thorough information about the files in a zip archive. Does
- not uncompress files or deal with other sorts of archives.
-
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-
- --
- Kris Nosack knosack@park.uvsc.edu
-
- >>>---> Be strange, but not a stranger! <---<<<
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