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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.

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.

ProgressBar 2.1.3, StatusBar 1.2.1, TabStrip 1.3.1, TrackBar 1.2.3

TiKu — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:32:06 +0000

I have some more releases for you. All four are bugfix releases. Like announced yesterday, I’m shipping stripped debug symbol files (*.pdb) now.

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 →

EditControls 1.3.0, ProgressBar 2.1.1 and StatusBar 1.1.1

TiKu — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:23:18 +0000

Here are three more releases. EditControls 1.3.0 brings some new features for the TextBox, namely the read-only properties LastVisibleLine, LineHeight and TextLength. There’s also a new VB6 sample which demonstrates how to display line numbers. It’s not perfect, but a point to start from.

ProgressBar 2.1.1 and StatusBar 1.1.1 are bugfix releases.

The drop of support for Windows 98, ME and NT 4.0 that I mentioned in the last news, applies to these releases, too.