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- These files are provided as a demo of ButtonToolTM. There is included
- a demo copy of the design-mode custom control. You will be able to use
- it in design or exe mode. This lets you see how the control actually
- works. You may copy and distribute this demo freely as long as you
- include all files in an unaltered state.
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- Everything in this demo is a ButtonTool button. All fo the 3-D panels,
- the labels the display windows, everything!
- Following are a few hints on using the ButtonTool demo:
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- SETTING COLOR PROPERTIES
- All of ButtonTool's color properties are set using Visual Basic's
- built in Color Palette. See VB's online help for information on
- how to use the Color Palette.
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- 3-D EFFECTS
- ButtonTool's 3-D effect is normally used to give a button a "raised"
- appearance. In some of the following cases you might want to reverse
- the 3D colors to give the appearance that the button is depressed.
- Using this technique in addition to some of the following you can
- easily generate "raised" or "depressed" buttons or panels.(see below)
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- BUTTONTOOL AS AN ENHANCED PICTURE CONTROL:
- You can use ButtonTool to display bitmaps, icons and metafiles on
- it's surface, as it's symbol. You can specify how much of the surface
- these images cover leaving room for a caption. In effect you now
- have a picture control that provides all of the ButtonTool properties
- such as 3-D Effects, Borders and Shadows.
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- BUTTONTOOL AS A PARENT OR "CONTAINER" OF OTHER CONTROLS:
- You can use ButtonTool as a container of other controls including
- other ButtonTool buttons. You can even use ButtonTool as mentioned
- above, as a Picture Control that contains other controls.
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- BUTTONTOOL AS AN ENHANCED LABEL CONTROL:
- You can use ButtonTool as a label to generate 3-D, raised, and
- depressed, labels. Labels with or without borders and shadows.
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- NOTE: In most of the uses just mentioned it is necessary to set
- the ButtonDown property to 0 - "No Effect" to keep the
- surface of a parent ButtonTool button from being repainted
- if the user were to "click" on it's exposed surface area.
- It is usually also nescessary to set the ShowFocus
- propertu to FALSE.
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- WARNING: Forms and code generated with this version of ButtonTool
- will NOT work with the commercial version. Anything you
- create with this version will have to be rebuilt from
- scratch.
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- We feel that there is a great deal of flexibility built into ButtonTool.
- You may find different and innovative ways of using it. If you do we
- would like to hear from you. If you have suggestions or complaints we
- still would like to hear from you. We are committed to making ButtonTool
- the best tool of it's type. We cannot do it without your feedback.
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- OTHER PRODUCTS FROM OUTRIDER SYSTEMS, INC.
- Other products include EditTool, which is an enhanced edit control
- that provides for formatted input. With EditTool you can format input
- on a character by character basis. You can specify protected positions,
- making it very easy to build, for example, PHONE, DATE, CURRENCY and SSN
- type fields. The "protected" characters such as the dashes( - - )
- in a SSN field are not stored in the text string making it simple to
- convert from the VB string representation to a numeric value. An
- additional feature of EditTool is an optional "Spinner" used to increment
- or decrement numbers in an EditTool field. EditTool also supports all of
- the border, 3-D and shadow properties found in ButtonTool.
- With ButtonTool you can add a professional look and feel to your
- applications.
- Pricing is $49.95 plus $4 S&H or both for $89.95 plus S&H.
- The file "ORDERFRM.TXT" is provided for your convienence.
-
- OUTRIDER SYSTEMS, INC.
- PO Box 271669
- Houston, TX 77277-1669
- Voice: (713)521-0486 Fax: (713)523-0386 Orders: (800) 845-0386
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