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New features of VideoSoft Custom Controls Version 3
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Overall
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Optimized speed for loading/unloading your VSVBX in your apps
Creates smaller EXE and FRM files
Around 20 new features.
15% smaller
60 pages manual
IndexTab
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New Properties
BackSheets
Defines the appearance of the back sheets behind the
current tab.
Options:
0 - None
1 - Shadow
2 - Sheets
TabCaption
Sets or retrieve the caption for an individual tab.
VSIndexTab1.Caption = "First|Second|Third"
debug.print VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1)
Second
VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1) = "New Second"
debug.print VSIndexTab1.TabCaption(1)
New Second
TabsPerPage
Determines the number of tabs that should be
displayed in the control.
If this property is set to 0, the size of each tab
is determined by the length of its caption. If is
greater than zero, all tabs are DRAWN THE SAME SIZE
TabOutLineColor
Defines the color to be used for the outline the
tabs.
Great to customize the 3D appearance.
New Settings
Two new tab styles:
Chamfered corners
3D Chamfered corners
Other improvementes:
Better appearance with enhanced 3D look
Smoother tab scrolling
Faster flicker-free redraws
Keeps visually the tab order
Automatic True Type font converting/matching for side tabs.
Elastic
Replace all the labels in your form with one elastic.
New Properties
AccessKey
Determines whether the Elastic should show and
process access keys. Access keys are created
by preceding characters in the Caption with an
ampersand (&).
BevelChildren
Determines whether the Elastic should draw 3-D
frames around all its child controls or only
around specified types of controls.
MaxChildSize
Sets or returns the maximum size for the Elastic's
child controls. The size is measured in Twips
and may correspond to the width or height of the
child control, depending on the setting of the
AutoSizeChildren property.
The maximum size limit only applies to the child
controls being resized by the Elastic. If
AutoSizeChildren is set to uneven Spacing, for
example, only the top child is affected. This
property is useful to prevent controls inside
an Elastic from spreading too much.
Command buttons, for example, are harder to use if
they are too far apart from each other.
Set this property to 0 disables it.
MinChildSize
Sets or returns the minimum size for the Elastic's
child controls. The size is measured in Twips
and may correspond to the width or height of the
child control, depending on the setting of the
AutoSizeChildren property.
The minimum size limit only applies to the child
controls being resized by the Elastic. If
AutoSizeChildren is set to uneven Spacing, for
example, only the top child is affected.
This property is useful to prevent controls inside
an Elastic from getting too narrow. It may be
better, for example, to show only a few command
buttons with readable captions than to show all of
them truncating the captions.
This property can be used in conjunction with the
Splitter property to prevent users from making a
child control too small.
Setting this property to 0 disables it.
WordWrap
Determines whether the caption text should be
automatically broken between words if a word would
extend past the edge of the control.
Return characters will also break the caption.
New Settings
New AutosizeChildren Options:
5 Elastics Horizontally
6 Elastics Vertically
7 Proportionally
The Elastics Horizontally and Elastics Vertically
options stretch only other Elastics inside the
Elastic and spread all child controls. They can be
used to center controls and to form clusters of
controls inside an Elastic.
Awk
New Properties
Match Quotes
Determines whether the VSAwk parser should regard
quote-delimited strings as single fields.
This features was added to facilitate parsing of
quote and comma-delimited files such as those
exported by most database and spreadsheet programs.
Double or single quotes are both recognized, but one
does not match the other. Unmatched quotes in a
line are ignored.
PostAt
Returns the position of the specified field in
the current record.
This property was designed to be used with VB's
string functions. The first string position is 1.
This property is useful when you want to process a
field based on its contents rather than on its
position. See also the FieldAt property, which
performs the reverse function.
FileMode
Allows scan thru ASCII or binary files.
New Settings
FS(Field Separator) improved features.
Buffer increased from 255 bytes to 64 K.