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Completely rewritten. Add an Adobe Photoshop styled layers dialog to your application. Please refer the the screenshot to see this control in action. Supports realtime layer dragging, visibility and editability toggles, full thumnail support and much more. Any feedback and/or votes would be most appreciated.

Cool Progress Bar is a regular progress bar, but with some cool effects (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but this was the first name that I came up with!). It was specially made for games (where a nice progress bar when loading the game always looks good, impresses the users and distracts them), but you can use it anywhere else. For now, all it supports is a gradation effect between two colors you choose (you can also choose the background color). But I plan to add a lot more effects, from custom graphics to transition effects and masks. If the progress bar looks awful in the screenshot, you probably have a color depth of 256 or 16 colors. 16 bits is the minimum for a cool effect. It's not my fault (you can always mess with the system's palette to make it use the progress bar's in 256 colors), sorry. Feel free to give me your own suggestions, and please vote, I worked very hard on this!

Includes demonstration of how to make labels appear as hyperlinks, open the users default web browser, and uses a hand cursor when hovering over the icon. The hand.cur file is loaded seperately so that you may incorporate it into your other applications.

An about/splash box that has a flicker-free Credit scroll. Uses only the form and one Picturebox; bitblt's the pb image into the client area of the form and uses InvalidateRect to force a redraw of only the area affected. Has methods to read data in from a .RES or a text file. Vote for me if you like what I've done with this, but take a look at Mark's original and let him know he did a great job too! This code uses the basic idea of Mark Robert Strange's 'Flicker Free Gradient Credits' and applies a great deal of modifications to use less resources and have more features.

Create a look like one used in windows2000 Great for wizards dialogs... Demostration of Drawedge API and DrawText API. if you like it, vote!

Forget about the PopUPMenu function in vb that restrict you just to use existing menus to use like popupmenus, with this class you will create dynamic popup menus with submenus and columns if you want.. if you like and don't want to vote. just send a comment... ( The dll code is inside zip, u just need the dll to binary compatibility ) now the dll is inside.. Don't forget to vote now!!!

This is a simple program that can make you print what you type. But you can improve it to make it more beautiful. You can make it like an order form. Try it first. And you know then.

OK! i will change the code comment. I don't wanna win the code contest. You must not look at the horrible graphics, but the code. How do create or clone a control? By creating a control array? By the method explained by venky dude? (good tutorial venky) This is simple a new way to create a control than can expand our knowledge of visual basic. You can create control, assign a name and code to the events in the way yo want. You can also remove the controls by it's own name (form1.controls.remove "goofy"). Try to do this in a control array!!! unload commandbutton(11). You still have 20 command button with control number 11 removed (more complicated).

This ActiveX DLL shows a screentip like the ones shown i Windows 2000. Use it almost the same way as the well know MsgBox. I hope that it will be usefull..

This a MsgBox replacement using Flash. While the flash movie is very simple, it does give a good example into using flash with VB. Read the REadme for information before using. The zip contains the dll, dll source, and source for a sample project using the dll. Also included the flash source so you can look at it and change it if you like.

Did you know that VB 5/6 applications will not render their controls with the new visual themes under Windows XP? Obviously, this is not good. This is the solution to this problem. This creates a REAL themed button under Windows XP by calling the Theme APIs, all wrapped up into an easy to use control. All you have to do is drop this control in your forms in place of the regular command button. Plus, as an added bonus, this control is completely backwards compatible! If the OS that your program is running on does not support Themes (or if they are disabled), this control simply displays the standard command button, without any extra work by you. This will give your applications a truely professional touch!

creates containers for objects

Move any form without a title bar! You can use a label, command button, picturebox, anything to move the form.

This code is a template for a scrolling form. This is great to use if you would like to create applications that work in all resolutions. I reccomend placing this form in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\Template\Forms folder so that it is available as a form template.

Lets you set the minimum size your form can be (I haven't seen anything else like this, I did it cause I wanted a form of mine to not go below a size), Also provides a one-step way to add a bitmap to a menu item (someone submitted something like this in the previous day or two, although I didn't take my code from them), and an easy way to add your icon to the system tray. This is my first submission, although I've been using PSC for a while now. I'ld appreciate any voting you could do. Also, comments are greatly appreciated. I'ld love it if you could fix any bugs you come across and send me an email!

This code takes care of drawing your menu's. It extends the CoolMenu v1.3 by Olivier Martin. The "disabled top menu" bug has been solved.

Pre-version (but full and working) of a software to make Mindmaps.

Updated 11-Aug-2001. Enhanced menus builds on Steve's excellent VbAccelerator popup menus which uses standard Vb menus, not complicated menus created at run-time. Enhancements: Transparent or opaque separator captions with icons. Wallpaper highlights. Variable width (autosizes to font) vertical bar created by writing direct to DC's. Left or right orientation. 90° or 270° text rotation. Standard, gradient, or wallpaper style. Individual captions, icons, and font properties. Translucency NOT WORKING CORRECTLY. CAN ANYONE HELP? Rename Alphablend.DL_ to Alphablend.DLL and copy to your windows system directory. See screenshot.

UPDATED 25-JUNE-2001 -1- Lightweight Windows Blinds Toolbar. Use as is or see VbAccelerator toolbar project below. Button control by J. Pearson (Aug 2000 PSC). Custom message box with Windows Blinds style buttons, optional timer to autoclose box, sounds and icons obtained from system using API. -2- Full implementation of Windows Blinds style buttons in a professional VbAccelerator Toolbar. Complete with Rebar, Pager, Imagelist class, Dropdown Icon Menu, and SubClass from www.vbaccelerator.com with full source code. Pager control hosts toolbar to allow scrolling when toolbar width exceeds pager width. Menus have Icons, background and customizable gradient highlight. Included in Demo is code to swap languages (currently 6) on the fly using resource file, 16 control panel applets selectable from menu, analog progress meter which can double as a Thumbnail viewer. -3- Imagestrip builder for making Normal, HOT, and Disabled picture strips to use in VbAccelerator Toolbar project. Put skins in first button, pictures in buttons, run program, save to clipboard, paste to MsPaint, crop, and save image. Strips attach to imagelist class for a low overhead toolbar. NOTE: Some VbAccelerator code has been modified to fix minor bugs discovered during 8 months of testing. Several new properties and code enhancements added. Uses subclassing so don't use IDE to stop program!

Update 27-May-2001. Use these Windows Blinds, Adobe, & Neoplanet style skinned rollover (hover) buttons to brighten up your GUI. Button control by J. Pearson (Aug 2000 PSC). Hint: Put bmp's in resource file and load them into buttons at run-time in Form_Load. TipofDay & DateTimeStamp forms shows how this is done.