SmartToolEngine is a good-optimized high-performance ActiveX component for creating and managing WinXP like style window menus, toolbars, popup menus and context menus with various appearance styles.
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
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 - Microsoft Office 2000/2003
