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DateTimeControls 1.1.2

TiKu — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:35:15 +0000

I have released version 1.1.2 of DateTimeControls. It fixes four bugs and adds a new property page for specifying Unicode texts at design time.

Galba

TiKu — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:26:10 +0000

I have released Galba, a … … no, not a new ActiveX control. Galba is a very simple CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay writing software which uses the disc-writing capabilities of Windows. I have written it in October 2009, after I had finished my studies and before I got my job. Christian Lütgens needed an alternative to the Nero COM component for usage in his software DateiCommander, because starting with Nero 9 this COM component isn’t available anymore. Also it sucks to require your customers to install a bloatware like Nero just to be able to write files to a DVD. Christian asked me for help and since he is a very good tester of my ActiveX controls, I wrote Galba for him. A few weeks ago, I came across this project on my hard disk and asked myself why not publish it on my website under the LGPL license? So I did.

I don’t plan to implement anything new into Galba. If I find time and am motivated, I will fix bugs and implement small improvements. Feel free to download the code and improve it. Feel free to send me patches. If they are of good quality, I will integrate them.

EditControls 1.5.0

TiKu — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:33:15 +0000

I have released version 1.5.0 of the EditControls control library. It introduces a new property page for specifying Unicode texts at design time and fixes two bugs.

Screenshots of ShellBrowserControls

TiKu — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:06:36 +0000

I’ve uploaded 12 screenshots demonstrating various features of ShellBrowserControls.

ShellBrowserControls 1.x

Contains screenshots of ShellBrowserControls, version 1.x.

12 Photos

ShellBrowserControls 1.0.0 Release Candidate 1

TiKu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:25:07 +0000

I guess some of you did not expect it anymore, but I’ve released a first release candidate of the ShellBrowserControls library.
The library contains two controls: ShellTreeView and ShellListView. ShellTreeView can be attached to ExplorerTreeView 2.0.0 or newer, ShellListView can be attached to ExplorerListView 1.0.0 RC1 or newer. The setup contains only 1 sample, but it demonstrates how to use ShellBrowserControls, ExplorerListView, ExplorerTreeView, StatusBar, TrackBar and Animation to build a Explorer-like shell browser. The sample does not contain much code, but supports things like dynamically scalable thumbnails (in Vista design!), Tiles view, elevation overlays, drag’n'drop, context menus and much more. It also demonstrates how to mix shell items with user-defined items.
ShellBrowserControls has been designed to hide as much of the ugly shell stuff as possible while letting you customize every detail. If you don’t want to bother with shell programming, you will be happy with this library. If you are a control freak and want to control every part of the shell-browsing, you will be happy with this library as well. The only major feature that is missing is grouping support, i. e. currently there is no group view mode (although ExplorerListView supports it).
ShellBrowserControls makes extensive use of multi-threading. Loading of items, icons, thumbnails, details and columns has been moved to background threads as much as possible, so that the GUI remains responsive even if some loading process takes a long time.

If you have questions about the usage of the library, please use the forum. Some concepts seem to be complicated, but my beta tester already assured, that they are very powerful once you have understood them.
When using the controls, do not forget that tree view features are controlled by ExplorerTreeView, list view features are controlled by ExplorerListView and shell features are controlled by ShellTreeView/ShellListView.

This is the most complex software I have ever written. I did extensive tests, but be aware of bugs.

TrackBar 1.3.1

TiKu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:32:11 +0000

I have released version 1.3.1 of the TrackBar control. It fixes a bug.

ExplorerTreeView 1.15.1

TiKu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:16:33 +0000

I’ve also released version 1.15.1 of ExplorerTreeView which fixes two bugs.

ExplorerTreeView 2.0.0

TiKu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:47:30 +0000

I’ve released the final of ExplorerTreeView 2.0.0. It fixes a few bugs and is the minimum version that can be used with the ShellBrowserControls.

Animation 2.2.2

TiKu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:44:22 +0000

I have released version 2.2.2 of the Animation control. It fixes a bug.

StatusBar 1.2.2

TiKu — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:21:32 +0000

I have released version 1.2.2 of StatusBar. It fixes a bug and introduces a new property page to assign Unicode strings at design time.