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- Designer Widgets (TM)
- * DEMO *
- Custom Controls for Visual Basic
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- Version 1.00
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- (C) Copyright 1994 by Sheridan Software Systems, Inc.
- 35 Pinelawn Road
- Melville, N.Y. 11747 USA
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- How to Use This Document
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- To view README.TXT on screen in Windows Notepad, maximize the Notepad window.
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- To print README.TXT, open it in Windows Write, Microsoft Word, or another
- word processor. Then select the entire document and format the text in
- 10-point Courier before printing.
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- Contents
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- Part Description
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- 1 About Designer Widgets
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- 2 Notes on Running the Demo Program
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- Part 1 - About Designer Widgets
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- Designer Widgets consists of three custom controls to provide state-of-the-art
- interfaces much like the interfaces found in most of today's hottest commercial
- Windows applications. The custom controls are:
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- The Dockable Toolbar:
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- The Dockable Toolbar control lets you create floating toolbars of buttons
- that the user can dock (attach) to the top, sides or bottom of an MDI form.
- In addition, when toolbars are not docked, the user can resize and reshape
- the floating toolbar as needed. This gives your users the flexibility to
- customize their work area to suit his or her working habits. Creating toolbars
- is as simple as placing a Dockable Toolbar control on a form and using the
- Toolbar Designer to drag the buttons onto the toolbar and assign button
- attributes.
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- The Dockable Toolbar control also features ToolTips, when the mouse stops
- over a button, a small balloon help style box will appear with text describing
- each button, just like some of Microsofts new apps such as Word 6.0 and Excel
- 5.0.
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- The Index Tab Custom Control:
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- The Index Tab control lets you design efficient dialogs using the index tab
- metaphor to group controls just like in Microsoft Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, and
- other new Microsoft apps. The tabs can be positioned at the top, bottom, or
- at the sides of the control. Each tab can have multiline text and even include
- a picture. During design time, jut place an Index Tab control on your form.
- Then, using the mouse, select the tab you want to place controls on, then start
- placing them directly on that tab. When you are done, select another tab and
- the Index Tab will give you a clear new tab to put controls on.
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- FormFX:
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- The FormFX custom control gives you total control over the appearance and
- behavior of your forms. With it you can make your forms 3D, display a picture
- in the caption, change the caption height, assign different pictures to the
- control box and min/max buttons, and much more. You can also restrict the
- forms movement or size or keep it Always on Top just to name a few more
- features. FormFX can give you the same look and feel of tomorrows new
- operating systems today!
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- Part 2 - Notes on running the demo program
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- This ZIP file contains the following files:
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- SSDESDEM.EXE The Designer Widgets Demo execeutable file.
- SSDOCKTB.VBX Designer Widgets Dockable Toolbar Custom Control.
- SSIDXTAB.VBX Designer Widgets Index Tab Custom Control.
- SSFORMFX.VBX Designer Widgets FormFX Custom Control.
- THREED.VBX Three-D Custom Control.
- README.TXT This text file.
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- To run the demo program, install all the above files in a
- single directory then run the program SSDESDEM.EXE. To run
- the program, either select 'Run' from the 'File' menu in
- Program Manager, or double-click on the filename in File
- Manager.
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