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- CoolCounter ActiveX Control,
- Create colorful, animated counters with optional live Internet updates.
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- The CoolCounter ActiveX Control allows you to create animated counters in your
- Visual Basic or Web application. When a counters value changes its digits are
- animated to reflect the change. You can specify sounds (WAV files) that will be
- played each time a digit changes. The control exports a large set of properties
- allowing you customize the font, color and shape of the counter. You can also
- specify to which direction the digits rotate and at what speed. Counters can
- also be connected to a CGI program running on the web to receive live updates.
- You can use CoolCounter to display status information in a more attractive way.
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- The Control comes with VB4,5 and IE sample applications.
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- CoolCounter can be used locally (no Internet connection) or to
- receive live Internet updates.
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- Local Updates:
- When local mode is used you can set the value of the counter yourself.
- You can connect any of your data sources to reflect a value in an
- attractive way. No Internet connection is required.
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- Internet Updates:
- When Internet mode is used you need to have an active connection to
- the Internet. There are currently four properties all starting with
- with the prefix "Web", allowing you to customize the way the control works.
- Working in Internet mode requires a CGI script to run on a remote web
- server. We have added a sample PERL script that creates a simple counter
- (the script can be found at the \Program Files\CoolCounter\Web directory).
- This remote counter is then used by the local CoolCounter to receive
- live updates. (Check out the "VB4 Web Example" application provided
- with this software).
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- Limitations:
- The Internet capabilities of the CoolCounter control will not function in
- case the client needs a proxy in order to connect to the Internet .
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- STEP #1 : HOW TO START WORKING WITH THE CoolCounter IN VISUAL BASIC.
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- 1. Select the Project\Components menu item to open the VB
- components dialog.
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- 2. Look for a component named "CoolCounter Control" and check it.
- A new control will be added to the component toolbox.
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- 3. Check out the help file "CCounter.HLP" that comes with this
- software. It lists all the properties and methods available
- by the control.
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- Examples that come with this software:
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- Visual Basic 4 or 5 without web access:
- To use the control in a Visual Basic 4 or 5 application
- without using the web capabilities look at the example
- called "CoolCounter VB4 Example" located in the CoolCounter
- program group.
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- Visual Basic 4 or 5 with web access:
- To use the control in a Visual Basic 4 or 5 application
- with it's web capabilities look at the example
- called VB Web Example" located in the CoolCounter
- program group.
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- Web Page viewed with Internet Explorer:
- To use the control in a web page look at the counter.htm
- example located in the CoolCounter program group.
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