SmartToolEngine - ActiveX for creating and managing modern style menus, toolbars and popups.

Features Summary

Tools Support

- Automatic support of group and state buttons

- Embedded calendar tool and combo box tool

- Extended tooltips. Specify both text and caption for the tooltip

- Captioned separator in popup

- Support of up to five different pictures, each one for every possible state of toolbar buttons

- Multiple shortcuts per one tool

- Label tool

- Automatic image generation

Popup Menus and Toolbars

- Personalized menus

- Context menus

- Popup toolbars

- Toolbars locking

Developer Framework

- Full Unicode support

- Tool Inspector Utility. Allows you to create application interface easily

- STE Code Generator Utility. Let it do the most elaborating part of the job for you

- Comprehensive programmer's reference

- Illustrative sample projects. The set of sample projects works as 'how to' reference on the product

- More than a hundred of commonly used icons are shipped with the developer suite.

Appearance

- Two different modern styles

- Color and Font. Change these settings easily according to the overall application interface idea

- Up to five different images per one button or menu item

- Original toolbars behaviour model

Object Model

- Rich object model allows to manage the application's interface in natural manner

- Centralized tool management provides an easy way to handle corresponding buttons and popup menu items as one object

Performance

- High speed and correct system resources usage

- Environment friendly

Compatible Containers:

Compatible with all software development environments that support ActiveX.

Has been tested on:

- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0