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Animation 2.5.0, ButtonControls 1.8.1, EditControls 1.8.0, TrackBar 1.5.1

TiKu — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:00:49 +0000

I’ve released new versions of Animation, ButtonControls, EditControls and TrackBar. All controls come with improved drawing code which fixes a couple of problems that could occur with version 6.0 of comctl32.dll.
You might wonder what happened to ButtonControls 1.8.0. Well, I released it yesterday and an hour later I had an idea how the drawing performance of the Frame control can be improved extremely while making it more robust against drawing issues at the same time. I could have canceled the release, but this would have produced some chaos in my source code repository.
EditControls 1.8.0 contains an interesting new VB6 sample project: A search box that looks and feels like the search box of Windows 7 Explorer. It also requires the ToolBarControls library and runs on Windows Vista/7 only with Aero Glass being activated – that’s the price for using modern API calls.

Animation 2.4.0

TiKu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:34:50 +0000

I’ve released another update. Version 2.4.0 of the Animation control comes with rewritten background drawing code which should fix a couple of rare drawing issues on Windows Vista and newer.

Animation 2.3.1, ButtonControls 1.6.1, ComboListBoxControls 1.2.1, DateTimeControls 1.2.2

TiKu — Fri, 20 May 2011 05:15:10 +0000

I’ve released some updates. They don’t contain new features, but fix several bugs.

More updates will come soon, so stay tuned.

Animation 2.3.0, ButtonControls 1.6.0, ComboListBoxControls 1.2.0, DateTimeControls 1.2.0, EditControls 1.6.0

TiKu — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:17:19 +0000

Happy new year to everyone! I have released new versions of some controls. I fixed several bugs, including crashes (which did not happen often though). I also migrated to Visual C++ 2010. Unfortunately this also means that Windows 2000 is … Continue reading →

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.

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.

Animation 2.2.1, ButtonControls 1.4.3, ComboListBoxControls 1.1.0, DateTimeControls 1.1.1, EditControls 1.4.2

TiKu — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:27:45 +0000

Happy new year! I’ve released updates of Animation, ButtonControls, ComboListBoxControls, DateTimeControls and EditControls. The ComboListBoxControls update is a larger one and includes a new feature. The other updates contain minor fixes and tweaks only. I’ve also started to ship stripped … Continue reading →

Animation 2.2.0, ButtonControls 1.4.1, EditControls 1.4.0, StatusBar 1.2.0

TiKu — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:03:04 +0000

I’ve released updates of Animation, ButtonControls, EditControls and StatusBar. Animation, ButtonControls and StatusBar got the usual bugfixes. As for the controls released two weeks ago, I could lower the usage of GDI objects. Animation and StatusBar support Windows 7 now, … Continue reading →

Animation 2.1.1, ButtonControls 1.3.1

TiKu — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:18:27 +0000

While updating the website, I’m also uploading new versions of my controls. The first ones are Animation 2.1.1 and ButtonControls 1.3.1 – two bugfix releases. I’ve dropped support for Windows 98, ME and NT 4.0 because I’ve upgraded to Visual C++ 2008 and the new compiler doesn’t support these systems anymore. If someday I have MUCH spare time, maybe I’ll install Visual C++ 2005 again, just to provide up-to-date versions for Windows 98, ME and NT 4.0, but that’s not very likely to happen.