This ActiveX component offers optimized and high-performance features for creating and managing WinXP style window menus, toolbars, and popup/context menus. It includes an interactive interface for structure creation and source code generation, with multiple appearance styles available.
The SmartToolEngine is an impressive ActiveX component designed to create and manage WinXP-like style window menus, toolbars, popup menus, and context menus with various appearance styles. It's a well-optimized and high-performance tool that allows developers to build sleek and intuitive user interfaces.
The tool supports a range of features, including automatic support of group and state buttons, an embedded calendar tool, combo box tool, extended tooltips, captioned separators in popups, multiple shortcuts per one tool, label tool, and automatic image generation.
The component also allows for personalized menus, context menus, popup toolbars, and toolbars locking. It provides full Unicode support, tool inspector utility, STE code generator utility, comprehensive programmer's reference, illustrative sample projects, and ships with over a hundred commonly used icons.
In terms of appearance, the SmartToolEngine offers two different modern styles, color and font customization, up to five different images per one button or menu item, and an original toolbar behavior model.
The rich object model allows developers to manage the application's interface in a natural way, and the centralized tool management makes it easy to handle corresponding buttons and popup menu items as one object.
The tool is also performance-oriented, with high speed and correct system resource usage while remaining environment-friendly. It is compatible with all software development environments that support ActiveX, including Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and Microsoft Office 2000/2003.
Overall, the SmartToolEngine is a great tool for developers looking to create sleek, modern user interfaces with maximum control and ease of use.
The tool supports a range of features, including automatic support of group and state buttons, an embedded calendar tool, combo box tool, extended tooltips, captioned separators in popups, multiple shortcuts per one tool, label tool, and automatic image generation.
The component also allows for personalized menus, context menus, popup toolbars, and toolbars locking. It provides full Unicode support, tool inspector utility, STE code generator utility, comprehensive programmer's reference, illustrative sample projects, and ships with over a hundred commonly used icons.
In terms of appearance, the SmartToolEngine offers two different modern styles, color and font customization, up to five different images per one button or menu item, and an original toolbar behavior model.
The rich object model allows developers to manage the application's interface in a natural way, and the centralized tool management makes it easy to handle corresponding buttons and popup menu items as one object.
The tool is also performance-oriented, with high speed and correct system resource usage while remaining environment-friendly. It is compatible with all software development environments that support ActiveX, including Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and Microsoft Office 2000/2003.
Overall, the SmartToolEngine is a great tool for developers looking to create sleek, modern user interfaces with maximum control and ease of use.
What's New
Version 2.0.a: N/A