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- SWREG ID: 2493
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- 5/8/94
- TITLESPY.VBX. Title and System Menu Custom Control. Version 3.0.
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-
- This VBX lets you change size and orientation of Title (Caption) Bar
- whithin Visial Basic, Visual C++ or Borland C++ 4.0 applications.
- Make Title Bar small, as it is in VB ToolsBar, or make it huge as you
- want. Let to choose Title Bar's font. Also lets you modify the System
- Menu.
- New in this version:
- 1. Fixed 'Border' bug.
- 2. Added new 'LetItMove' property, what allows to move parent
- controls in Run-Time.
- 3. Added 'SpyAllowed' property. You make it false, if you don't
- want to have different title size, but want to use System menu
- feature.
- 4. New demo.
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- How to use.
-
- To modify Title Bar:
-
- 1. Put control on form.
- 2. Choose Caption Bar size in TitleSize property.
- 3. Choose Caption Bar orientation in TitlePlace property.
- 4. Run application. Enjoy.
-
- If you want to append your items into System Menu:
-
- 1. Put control on form.
- 2. Add next line into your code:
-
- TitleSpy1.AddItem ItemStr$, n
-
- where
- 'ItemStr$' is a String, you want to appear in System Menu,
- 'n' is Menu Item ID between 100 and 1000. This ID will be
- send into SysMenu Event of TitleSpy, when user will select
- this Item in the System Menu.
- To append separator make n equal 0.
-
- 3. In SysMenu Event of TitleSpy append code what will executes
- when user selected your Item from System Menu.
-
- 4. Run application. Enjoy.
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- Fonts.
-
- This version let you possibility to use any font in a Caption Bars.
- But you have to remember:
- if you use Non-True-Type fonts:
- - Vertical oriented Caption will not have a text.
- - Size of font, used for Title Bar, will be nearest
- existing size for this particular font, what matches
- to current height of Title Bar.
-
- if you use Vertical oriented Caption
- - StrikeThrou and Underline don't work property for
- vertical oriented fonts.
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- Restrictions.
-
- You can not to have a menu in window that have TITLESPY as a child. If you
- use menu, it will be invisible in Run Mode.
-
- If you make 'BorderStyle' of the Form equal to 'Fixed Double' or 'No border',
- TitleSpy changes it to 'Fixed Single'.
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- Registration.
-
- You can register this Control by sending your name and either:
-
- 1. On-line registration with Compuserve, type GO SWREG and register
- product number 2493. The fee is $36.00. A registered copy will
- be sent by E-Mail.
- 2. Sending $36.00 and your name and address to the E-Mail address below.
-
- Please provide me with an E-Mail address where the control can be sent,
- alternatively add $3.50 for shipping and a disk will be mailed to you.
- Overseas shipping varies with destination.
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- If you have any comments or questions, please send them to me. I can be
- reached at
-
-
- Alex Spektor,
- 610 Valley Stream Circle
- Langhorne, PA 19053
- (215) 741-5611.
-
- Or E-Mail at CIS: 73321,1525 and Internet aspektor@susq.com.
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